We hear a lot about layers and how they're so cool in Photoshop. This article will take you through all the different food groups; from fill layers right through to complex uses of adjustment layers. Sometimes you discover things in Photoshop that you never thought of using before - this article will plant a few of those seeds.
Macromedia have released a free bug fix updater for Flash MX 2004 which has "34 crash bugs found and fixed! ". The cynical might wonder why it was ever shipped with that many bugs; the pragmatic will install the patch and breathe a sigh of relief. Let's hope there's one for Dreamweaver MX soon...
(Bruce)
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One of the more frustrating aspects of CSS is centering our fixed designs effectively on the page. I know this because it’s a question people ask me quite often—and in fact the idea for this article came from a reader concerned about how to do just this.
The big trouble with testing your web sites for backwards compatibility has always been that you can't install multiple versions of Internet Explorer on Windows. Until now! Joe Maddalone has discovered how to run different versions of IE on the same windows box in order to test. And here's downloadable Internet Explorer versions 3, 4 and 5.
Hooray for clever people!
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The basic PHP language is feature-rich and powerful enough for you to handle most web applications without any hassles. And if you’re working with PHP mainly by using the built-in Server Behaviors that come with Dreamweaver and a little bit of hand coding, you are missing out on a whole host of functionality within PHP.
An unknown intruder attempted to insert a Trojan horse program into the code of the next version of the Linux kernel, stored at a publicly accessible database, reports ZDNet. Meanwhile, security research firm @stake is warning Macintosh users about three security problems with the Mac OS X 10.2.8 and previous versions, reports Security Pipeline magazine. Read More 
CodeBehind is when the HTML portion of the page that contains the HTML mark-up and the server side code are separated into two files. This allows designers to make modifications to the HTML without messing up the programmes server side code. It also allows programmers to edit their code without messing up the designers HTML. When the server side code is compiled into an assembly (DLL) each section of the page can even be published to the server separately.
With Dreamweaver, you can check your mark-up using the built-in validator, or you can use the validators on the W3C site, because markup and CSS is either right, or it isn't. A web site can be technically accessible (that is, all the alt text is there etc) but still very difficult to use, so you need to test it. In this tutorial, Rachel looks at testing your sites with the free Lynx text-only browser, or a trial edition of a screen-reader and what to look for.
Bill "Sheriff" Gates has put a bounty on the writers of MSBlast and the Sobig viruses - half a million dollars for information leading to the arrest of those varmints, ZDNet reports Read More 
In this tutorial, for beginners to database design, Rob Stuttaford writes on how to design databases that are normalised - the process of breaking data down into its most basic components. We do this to remove redundancy in data, and for a couple of reasons. Data is more flexible when in a granular format. Instead of using one big table, like with any spreadsheet program, we make distinctions between bits of data and then relate these bits to create meaningful information.