I have looked at a lot of hosting provider's Websites, and they all say the same thing. So when I came upon the Green Geeks hosting site, I was surprised. They offer similar hosting plans to other providers, but they do one thing differently - they are green. In fact, they claim they are "300% green hosting." This intrigued me so much, that I asked for an interview with their CEO, Trey Gardner to find out more.

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Is Your Hosting Provider Green? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Thursday, October 29th, 2009 at 21:07:01.

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I've been interested in green living since I was in college. At that time, we were most concerned with recycling, and while I was conscious that my job could affect the planet, I didn't think about whether it was green or not. But now, I'm really starting to understand how everything we do has an affect on the world around us, so being green in my Web design and writing work is becoming very important to me. I only recently learned that Web hosting can have a huge impact on the planet, in my interview with Trey Gardner, CEO of Green Geeks. How have you implemented green living strategies into your Web design?

Poll: Is being green an important part of your Web design work? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Thursday, October 29th, 2009 at 08:04:43.

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Is it time to stop blogging and start networking? This CMS has everything a developer needs to create a top of the line social networking site with all the features that users have come to expect from sites like MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Pizza Capers

Submitter’s comments: I’m a first-time reader of your web site, and I’m finding it very informative – and amusing.  There is one web site I’d like to submit for your consideration, due to a misplaced use of metaphors and a high dependence on Flash: Pizza Capers.

The hand cursor and the basil/chili plants that swing if you put the mouse over them, but otherwise do nothing, are just idle distractions, but try taking a look at the menu – you have to go through every page by grabbing the bottom right corner of the page, dragging it halfway across the screen, and let it go.  If I wanted to thumb through a menu, I’d go into the place and thumb through the menu.  This is why I end up using the PDF version.

And the ‘capertron’ part of their ‘order online’ section is still ‘coming soon’. But on the other hand, the pizzas are excellent – they’re the only place I’d order takeaway pizza from.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: As I said yesterday about Mellow Mushroom:

Pizza Parlors are Yet Another Industry That Sucks (YAITS). This one, is a little more high end than others of its ilk, uses Flash where it could just as easily use HTML.

Although the submitter is somewhat inaccurate — you can also click on the corner of the page to change it — the real question is, “Why in God’s name would you want to use a book metaphor?” You’re wasting time, people are going to forget where certain items they may want to order are located. What does this buy you?

What really ticked me off is that I couldn’t figure how to close the menu once I opened it. I couldn’t go anywhere else. Clicking at various spots on the home page didn’t work. Another bad feature of Flash that’s used at Pizza Capers is that when you mouse over certain icons, Flash sound files are activated.

Once again, it’s important to notice that a sucky web site does not translate into a sucky product; however, if a person’s only experience with your product is your web site, you’re in trouble. What we have here is a site that’s F.U.C.K.E.D — Flash Used to Corrupt Knowledge of Effective Decisionmaking.

Worst of all, not everything is viewable on my 1900- x 1170-pixel window, as this screen shot demonstrates. OMG! I was just playing around with the home page and discovered that the only way to see everything on the home page is to click and drag and hand cursor. This site is a black hole of f*****g death.

Pizza Capers

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Daily Sucker for Wednesday, October 28, 2009

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Wordless Wednesday - Readers' Favorite Page Designs: SFGate originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 at 08:37:50.

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Mellow Mushroom

Submitter’s comments: I hate this site for the same reason I hate DVD’s with animated menus. There is just too much nonsense every time I try to get to real information.

Every time.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I think I’m back. Spent three lovely days in the hospital last week because it turns out I’m too damn old to be living the rock and roll/vampire life style. My daughter, who was my accomplice during these escapades, may give up hanging out with dad’s lifestyle since it took her a month to recuperate. I’m bummed ’cause I really want to see Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit on November 5. And then there’s North Twin…

Pizza Parlors are Yet Another Industry That Sucks (YAITS). This one, is a little more high end than others of its ilk, uses Flash where it could just as easily use HTML. I hate their “Select A State” scrollbar on their Locations page an all the unnecessary white graphics on their subpages. Also, under the category of “Stupid,” is their Promotions page. I found a lot of gibberish, but no promotions.

Mellow Mushroom

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Daily Sucker for Tuesday, October 27, 2009

It's that time of year, we're all getting ready to be scared by the spooks and goblins that will be out on October 31st. But just because we're getting ready to be scared doesn't mean we should scare our readers with frightening design techniques. If you want to scare your readers, use scary pictures and text, don't use these scary designs. Little Web of Horrors - Scary Web Designs and Even More Scary Web Designs. What Design Scares You?

Scary Web Designs originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 at 08:18:39.

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This article discusses the login portion of our banking application that we created using the new Object Orientated Programming that became available in PHP 5. We will also cover some additional OOP concepts that we have not looked at yet.