Tech Remedy

Free is an amazing word! I decided to compile a list of 100+ of the very best free applications for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Not all of the apps listed work on all platforms…so make sure to look into it on your own. This list is broken down into 11 pages. Each page accounts for a software category. Feel free to leave additional free programs that you like in the comments!

Categories:

• Web Browsers
• Anti-Virus/Security
• Graphics/Photos
• Media Players/Converters/Streamers
• Bit Torrent Clients
• Programming/Development
• FTP/SCP/SSH
• System Tools
• Chat/Messengers/Social
• Archive Management
• Productivity

Most people who need a website don’t actually know whether to hire a web designer or a web developer. In fact, most people don’t even know the difference between the two. So which one should you hire?

If a website is to be successful, it requires the talents of both. While, the work of a web designer and the work of a web developer have some similarities, there are also some very distinct differences between the two. Web design is the art of conceptualizing a design idea and bringing it to life on the web. Web development is the in-depth technical work that makes everything function the way it is supposed to.

It is very common for a web developer to have skills in design. In fact, one could say that web design is actually a sub-skill of web development. On the other hand, web designers are much less likely to have the skills necessary to write the markup and coding of a complex site. Designers tend to be dependent on developers, while developers tend to be independent and capable of doing an entire job from concept to finished product.

When it comes to the presentation of content, a designer might have many more creative ideas than a developer. This is not always true, but designer tend to be artists while developers tend to be more analytical. So, which one should you hire? Well, the ideal is a web developer with strong design and creative skills. I always recommend hiring a designer to help with the initial layout ideas and even creating a mockup of the final product. That is when you bring the developer in.

I hope this helps someone understand the difference between web design and web development!

HTML colors are defined using hexadecimal values for the combination of Red, Green, and Blue. Here’s a helpful chart:

So here’s the scenario. You have a flash application on your website. The flash app is fed with content from an XML file on your server. You add some new content to the XML file and save it. Then you go to your site and the change doesn’t show up! Oh no!

Well, there’s a reason for this. Browser Cache. The XML file is stored locally by your web browser in order to make loading times better. For the new content to display, the user has to clear their browser’s cache. This would be a giant pain to explain to your visitors that they have to clear their cache in order for your site to appear correctly. It’s also not very professional! In order to solve the problem you need to add a little bit of code to your site. First, let’s take a look at what the code might have looked like originally:

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<script type="text/javascript"><!--mce:0--></script>

What we need to do next is trick the browser into thinking that the file it is checking the cache for doesn’t exist in the cache. So, we will add a random number to our script:

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<script type="text/javascript"><!--mce:1--></script>

This solves the browser cache problem!