http://spriterightapp.com

Best part of using it would be being able to create multiple sprites and serving them up depending on the browsers ability to render CSS3 declarations. You can create a sprite that contains all the buttons and icons from your mockup and a second or third sprite could contain less buttons and image content which you serve up to the modern browsers.

So using Modernizer:

.icons {
background: url(big-sprite-with-lots-of-buttons.png);
}

.cssgradients .icons {
background: url(modern-sprite-no-buttons.png);
}

http://jsfiddle.net/websterslab/Cy54G/

Easy variations by Andreas Hedderich

Often I use the Phark method to remove link text and replace it with a button image like so:

button {
background: url(“../images/buttons.png”) no-repeat;
border: 0 none;
height: 52px;
position: absolute;
text-indent: -9999px;
width: 181px !important;
}

..however in ie7 the text still appear. To get around this just add text-transform: capitalize; and boom! no button text in ie7.

Edit the .htaccess to increase the upload limit

Editing the .htaccess file seems the easiest way to achieve this without touching the WordPress core files or adding a php.ini file as many suggest.

Simply add the following code:

php_value upload_max_filesize 6M
php_value post_max_size 6M
php_value max_execution_time 200
php_value max_input_time 200

DesignersMX

Favourite morning mix so far is Kick the Day Off Right BY San Francisco designer Daniel Waldron (@dwaldron
danielwaldron.com)

You don’t even need to have your website up and running to create a google apps account, all you need is a registered domain and hosting package and you’re good to go. Google apps is available for free to businesses with less than 10 email addresses required. So if you are a small business looking for a professional email solution Google apps is the way to go.

There are two versions of Google Apps for Business: the free, ad-supported Standard version, and the $50 per-user per-year Premium version. The Premium version includes 25Gb of storage per user, but the email capacity for the Standard edition keeps creeping up too. At the time of writing, it was 7.5Gb. The Premium version includes a 90-day recovery service for email, although Google offers a separate archiving service to firms that need a more robust solution for compliance purposes.

As part of the Google Apps family is the Calender and Docs. These two enable you to share a calendar with everyone on your team and the same goes for documents. This is a real time saver and can help streamline your business workflow. Google are constantly creating and adding new apps to the Google Apps family so chances are if there is a web service you require Google has an app for you!

Making Google Apps Mobile
Once you have been migrated to the Gmail service, accessing it on a mobile phone is relatively straightforward, thanks to the popularity of the service, and its support for IMAP. There are three different ways to access Gmail on a mobile device. The easiest is via Webmail. Surfing to m.google.com gives you a streamlined Web interface with access to the various services (Docs, Calendar, Gmail and Google Talk), included in their Google Apps implementation.

How to set up IMAP-based Gmail in the iPhone
When you first login to your new Google Apps email account there is an instructional on how to setup Google Apps on your Iphone or smartphone device so you can take Google Apps with you in your pocket!

Google Apps is fantastic and I recommend it for all my clients. If you would like help setting up Google Apps whether you have a domain or hosting package already get in touch.

Social media was not about being “chatty and friendly” but about interacting with customers. “It’s about showing your expertise, putting your opinion out there and answering questions… If you tweet two or three times a day, people will retweet you and you’ll be introduced to their followers. It costs nothing to use and small businesses could get a lot out of it.

A great article every business should read as a guide to using social media to connect with customers.

Be sociable for success

Teachers have the option to sign up for a variety of accounts from free plans to fully featured options which include a listing in the sidebar/homepage, multimedia and images. I feel when looking for a teacher it is really helpful to hear them play and see them too. You get a feel for who they are and what they do which is important and this site does it.

It’s still new (April 2011) but I imagine it will grow over the next couple of weeks as teachers hear about it and jump on board.

As a special offer teachers who register in April 2011 get a free upgrade to an images plan!