This free article is a must-read for all web designers who use any kind of active content (Flash, QuickTime etc) on their sites. Bruce Lawson investigates the changes that you'll need to make as suggested by Microsoft, Macromedia, Real Networks and Apple if you plan to continue delivering seamless Flash or other plug-in content to the 90% of the world who use IE.
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Data binding is one area where ASP.NET really improves in leaps and bounds over what classic ASP offers. The power is there - but the syntax is murky and confusing. This tutorial serves as an ideal introduction to the novice for data binding and what templates are used for in ASP.NET., and cuts through Microsoft's tricky doucmentation to bring the power of ASP.NET databinding and template to the beginner.
Ever wondered how some sites just totally change their look at the touch of a button? Add a couple of different CSS layouts, a dash of JavaScript and a couple of buttons and you let your users choose between different predefined colour schemes, layouts and background images.
Flash MX 2004 is aimed at providing developers with an easy and intuitive way of developing rich internet applications. To provide this level of sophistication to developers, Macromedia have provided developers with new tools in Flash MX 2004 Professional, such as a forms based paradigm for developing applications, better support for video and advanced data access components.
We reported in our newsletter a week ago that verisign were routeing all browser requests for non-existent .com and .net domain names to their pay-to-list "search engine" that broke spam filters etc. Fortunately, they've now been told to remove it by ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). A victory for common sense. Read More 
One of the great benefits the DOM and CSS has brought developers is flexibility. In today's tutorial, we use this behavior to our advantage is to tie more functionality to a page than is initially visible. That hidden content can then react to the user based on their actions, for example, make a 'help' box dynamically appear if the user presses a button, without leaving the page or popping up a new window.
A Trojan that exploits an Internet Explorer vulnerability is capable of allowing attackers to hijack browser behaviour, anti-virus firms warn. More at The Register. Read More 
You want your site's visitors to be able to contact you (to offer you work, marriage, congratulations on your genius etc) but, as soon as you put your email address on the site, you're inundated with spam and Nigerian gentlemen offering you $5 million.
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Allan Kent, DMXzone Flash and PHP tutorial author, found Skipper at Sourceforge (the place to be if you're into OpenSource stuff, and not only for Linux - much of it has Windows versions too).
Skipper allows you to build very cheap sensors, has a program to translate body movements picked up by those sensors into controls for programs, provides word predictors, dictionaries etc, and interacts with screenreaders. And it's free!
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