Andy Boyd

If you are looking for a way to “force” website traffic to not use www., then here is an .htaccess rule you can use

RewriteEngine On
# If subdomain www exists, remove it
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.([^\.]+\.[^\.]+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

There are other useful .htaccess tips at the following URL:

http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess2.php

Be the first on your block to use Google TiSP… what’s TiSP?  Take a look at the following URL to learn more…
http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html

(note: TiSP is not real.. but very funny!)

iStockPhoto has an API now?  This is intriguing…

http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=46006&page=1

While doing consultant or freelance work, you will meet some.. ahem.. interesting people. When I started, I thought I would never have to “fire” a client… but, them days are gone.. Eric Wise of codewise.com provides an excellent list of things to look out for when you are engaging a client for potential work:

http://codebetter.com/blogs/eric.wise/archive/2005/06/14/64585.aspx

I always find myself looking for a way to send files, or receive them, and sometimes email just won’t work… This is a great little web based FTP service that allows you to upload files and share the link.

http://www.senduit.com/

If you’re looking for a standalone Free FTP tool for Mac, try: http://cyberduck.ch/

CodeIgniter is open source and well documented, I think it looks pretty cool…
“CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. If you’re a developer who lives in the real world of shared hosting accounts and clients with deadlines, and if you’re tired of ponderously large and thoroughly undocumented frameworks ”

http://codeigniter.com/

Trying to drive traffic to your site by using the same keywords in all your titles is a mistake… Read the following article to gain a perspective on the correct way to increase traffice using keywords

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-solve-keyword-cannibalization

This is a great week… first UltraEdit v13.00, now this!  Camino 1.0.4 just released.  If you haven’t tried Camino as your web-browser on OS X, you have to try it… I’m hooked!

http://www.caminobrowser.org/releases/1.0.4.php

UltraEdit v13.00 was just released today (3/6/07). The new features are:

• Integrated scripting support
• Integrated browser support to show active HTML file
• Spell check while typing
• MSI Installer support
• Search and Replace enhancements:
  • Search in Favorite files
  • Search and Replace will step through all open files
  • Search in Files for any files NOT containing search string
  • User customizable format of Search in Files result
• Explorer view uses system-registered Icons for file types
• Cursor word-right or word-left to optionally stop at an underscore
• Syntax highlighting support of verbatim string literals
• Nested comments for languages
• Script List view for scripts
• Express Install for typical installations
• Prompt before UltraEdit is set as View Source Editor during install
• Option to auto-save modified documents when application loses focus
• More…

The integrated scripting support is fantastic! It combines JavaScript and UltraEdit allowing you to create some very powerful scripts.

If you want to try out the scripting, I suggest you read the Power Tip here:

http://www.ultraedit.com/index.php?name=Content&pid=216

Go to www.ultraedit.com to learn more

Communities that bring freelancers and clients together are poping up all over the web. Freelancers no longer need to find their own clients, now they come to you.

Here are a few

• http://www.sologig.com/
• http://freelanceswitch.com/jobs
• http://www.elance.com/
• http://getafreelancer.com/
• http://www.RentACoder/
• http://www.designoutpost.com/
• http://logoworks.com/

These sites are not just web design and graphic design. They also offer writing, programming, marketing, and more…