The Front Lines

Word Front is proud to present our latest product offerings: t-shirts, apparel, and accessories via our Word Front Wares Store.

Each garment is hand-crafted out of only the finest organic and synthetic materials, and features an exciting and edgy graphic design that is sure to turn heads (and hearts).

All of our garments are professionally plot printed on high-quality heavyweight material that will withstand years of wearing and washing. SpreadShirt is handling production and shipping. We’re very excited about this new venture, and hope you’ll check out our store.

We’ll be adding new designs every Wednesday (more often throughout February) and will use this space to talk about new products and designs.

While this is just part of the new company’s re-structuring and has little effect on the sites we’ve built and operate, as of today Word Front officially owns Poetry X, Joycean.org: James Joyce, and Cinema Review.

Expect updates, re-designs, and new content to be added to each of our sites soon.

A nice feature to offer your visitors is their own little home page on your site, so that when they log in, instead of going to an awkward page like:

http://example.com/members/profile.php?username=Bob

They’re able to simply log in to:

http://bob.example.com

It’s easier for them to remember, and it looks nice and clean. We’re all about clean livin’ here at Word Front.

Numerous sites create this subdomain for you when you sign up for an account, like Blogger does (pretty much all of our upcoming web applications will use this trick). This tutorial will show you how to create wildcard subdomains and allow users to log in to your member account system (assuming you have one) using their own user name as a subdomain (like http://username.example.com).

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With the recent launch of Word Front’s new umbrella site, we’ve added this repository of articles, tips, and commentary about various aspects of web development, application design, programming, databases, information architecture, PHP, mySQL, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, Ajax, marketing, and anything else that is part of an Internet professional’s daily life.

Our aim is to keep our articles and examples as easy and simple to understand as possible, offering up tips we’ve collected over the past decade, with the intention of helping other designers make everything that falls under the big blanket of “web design” easier.

We hope to engender an environment of helpful sharing here, and to that end we encourage comments and discussion, even if it’s to disagree with us or point out the flaws in our work.

Expect this site to be updated a few times per week. You can subscribe to our RSS syndication feeds if you want to be notified of updates. Links are at the end of each archived article as well as in the footer of every page.