Obama took the nation by surprise when he used the internet in an unprecedented way to drum up support for his campaign. But that is not the only surprise in store for us. If you own a small internet business, you may, or may not, find a few gems in the Obama economic plan.

One of the biggest problems that webmasters have is that of getting visitors to come to their websites. The easy solution: pay for advertising. However, before you enroll in a paid advertising campaign, it is important to know that better alternatives exist. And while paid advertising is effective in bringing new visitors, it is often not the best idea.

Most flash applications have little, if any, interaction with the web pages in which they are embedded. However, sometimes it is necessary for the page to share information with the flash application. In this tutorial, we will show you two simple methods for passing variables.

When Google released the beta version of their shiny new browser in early September, we could not have been happier. Google Chrome was fast and full of features, and had all of the things that the other browsers lacked. Not surprisingly, we predicted that it would be a huge hit. But now, only two months later, all of the hype has died down. What is the fate of Chrome?

This week, some WordPress users were surprised to find that the new version of WordPress that they downloaded was full of malicious trojans. We too were surprised when we heard about it. But there is an easy way to avoid this from happening to you.

Contact forms are a great addition to any website. Read our contact form tutorial and download a complete code sample. This form works out-of-the-box and even verifies that visitors have entered valid email addresses. Download it now, for free!

Just recently, WordPress.org added a new section to their website which enables WordPress developers and fanatics to showcase their work. Why not submit your website?

There are many reasons to parse HTML files as PHP. Some webmasters do it because they are converting an old static website into a dynamic website and don’t want to lose pagerank. Other websites do it because search engines favor web pages with .html endings. Still others do it for security reasons.

Fortunately, parsing HTML files as PHP easily accomplished on Linux Apache via the use of an htaccess file.