So you want to register a domain, but need some ideas (and also need to know what’s available). Here’s a few “Domain name suggestion tools”:
nameboy.com
Registerfly’s suggestion tool
If I find more, I’ll add them - if you find more, feel free to post them in the comments.
This is a technique I use a lot at work. Mostly for times I have to show a screenshot - Just to make it look a little more interesting rather than just pasting it squared up and flat against the background.
Part of this tutorial is similar to one I found here: designsbymark.com (the Software Box with reflection) however, I also add a shadow which helps give more “realism”.
(click thumbnails in tutorial to see a bigger image)
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A neat, and easy, way to put a digital clock right into the code of your website/blog. Note that instead of a div, you can also use a span, as long as you use the same id.
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Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox (you get the notifications for these, RRrright?!) for August 18th is Usability 101. Excellent article explaining the basics of usability. Pass it along the next time someone gives you a confused look when you start to talk about whether a site is usable or not. 
Saw this on the Javascript Tip of the Day feed… and I just KNOW someday I’ll probably need it:
Related Menus - basically selecting an option in one drop down, determines the contents of the second drop down.
Lloyd has a Javascript Color Select Widget (IE 6, and Moz 1.2) here.
Another post on redemption in a blog points to this really cool php class that shows you a range of colors based on the one you put in. The example they have is very cool. (There’s also a few other links on redemtion to other color thingys™)
Web-Graphics (finally back!) has a web-based color pickers review.
Donna posted a few neat little tidbitds - but the one I was most interested in was the referrer script that also tracks hits on an entry… Like “read 100 times” etc. Here’s the script from redemption in a blog.
My reads list is kept on blogrolling, and a good number of those reads ping weblogs.com, like I do. I get a nice little “newly posted!” pointer when that ping occurs.
Well, did. Problem was, my site has, for the last several months, been getting an error when it tried pinging weblogs.com. I don’t know how many others have been having this problem, but I’m guessing a fair number, since weblogs.com is just getting overloaded, apparently.
Then I discovered that you can ping blogrolling directly, so no matter if weblogs.com gets your ping or not, everyone who has you on their blogrolling list can still see that you’ve updated.
Here’s the link to blogrolling.com’s faq on it: http://www.blogrolling.com/docs_ping.phtml#f1;
Or for lazy people like me, here’s my shortened version how to do this in MT:
In your blog’s configuration, go to Preferences and down to the Publicity / Remote Interfaces / TrackBack section. Under “Notify the following sites when I update my blog:”’s “Other” section, paste the following URL:
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
That’s it. Now I’m right back up displaying the fact I post way too often.
Just because I never want to have to search for things like this again. (And I’m just going to add to this post as time goes by)
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Just ran into an interesting problem and wanted to post this here in case anyone else ever hits the same snag - hopefully I’ll save you a headache.
I was recently helping someone out with cookies on their site. By all appearances - the cookie WAS being set (I made a “test” page that did nothing but call the cookie - and it worked fine), but when I tried to call it from their site, something wasn’t working…
It turned out that they had a php include which looked like this:
And while this basically worked - the page was included, and no specific errors were generated - it did cause a number of problems. One of the problems being that cookies weren’t being called or recognized. But many other PHP things were working fine on the page.
Changing the includes to use the full server path fixed the problem. (By “full server path” I mean it kind of looked like: “/home/youraccount/public_html/myblog/includefile.php”)