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If you want to change the color of your dashboard to a more “classic” WordPress look from within your dashboard.

Great tips on protecting file uploads via PHP, discusses MIME server-side validation, as well file handling with suhosin and mod_security. Some info, is basic, but it covers more advanced topics like chroot and partition permissions.

I want to show you how to install Xoops on Ubuntu. I used the Ubuntu 6.10 Server Edition, but it will probably work on other systems as well. Xoops is a modern Content-Management-System which can be extended with a variety of modules.

Covers 4 popular solutions, namely validating, joining, shrinking and compressing your markup source code for Javascript and CSS. Excellent HOWTO!

This article discusses various ways of analysing a website for potential speed bumps and provides tips on how to optimize a site for performance.

Tutorial on the art of choosing a color scheme for any website. Provides a list of practical tips and techniques a blogger should use while designing a color scheme.

This method uses crontab to execute a shell script that downloads an updated urchin.js file every 24 hours and saves it into your local sites directory so that it can be served by your web server instead of the google-analytics.com web server. The problem with google-analytics.com is that when google-analytics.com/urchin.js is requested by billions of web users all over the world at one time, it can cause your pages to load very slowly, especially if you are using WordPress or a similar CMS.

Article on how to configure either mod_cband or mod_bw to control bandwidth usage. Article addresses specific problem of MP3 downloads consuming too much bandwidth.

This article shows how to set up your own news-voting website with Pligg. Pligg is a content-management system published under the Affero General Public License, and it is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database for storing its data. With a little work you can create your own community and let users vote news to the front page.

Excellent screencast. Easy examples. In less than 5 minutes you'll understand why you want to build your site with CSS