Every year, around this time, I love going to popular websites and seeing if they have changed their footer copyright dates yet. I guess you could call it one of my hobbies. This year, I was especially surprised with some of the websites I saw, so I thought I would share them with you.

Before I actually get to the list, I want to give you a quick tip on how to keep your blog updated forever without having to manually change the footer date.  You can use this tip on any website that supports php 4 and 5.  Let’s say that your blog’s footer looked something like this:

Copyright © 2009 TutorialWow.com - All Rights Reserved

To make it never have to be updated, just change it to this:

Copyright © <?php echo date("Y"); ?> TutorialWow.com - All Rights Reserved

As you can see, all I did was replace “2009″ with “< ?php echo date(”Y”); ?>”.  This simply outputs the current year number, and makes for a care-free footer!

Without further nonsense, here are 34 websites that are still in 2008 (or even 2007 for some) - in no particular order.

Google

BuySellAds

You the Designer

WebUrbanist

Speckyboy

Six Revisions

GoMediaZine

Design Bump

Designflavr

David Airey

CreativeSync

Color Overload

CrazyLeaf

FBrushes

Think Design

Digital Artist Toolbox

Hongkiat

CSS Count

Knowtebook

BrushKing

DesignNerd

Vectips

BittBox

Veerle’s Blog

Colorburned

Twitter

Noupe

ImJustCreative

Just Creative Design

My Ink Blog

Fuel Your Creativity

9rules

Function

Web Designer Wall

Enough of my rantings - go update your blog footer!

In this day and age, everyone is turning to the internet to satisfy their communication needs.  Over the past few decades, “social” sites such as My space, Facebook, and Twitter have made it extremely easy to stay in contact with friends, family, and whoever else you want.

Now, a new age has arisen, the age of the blog.  Everyone seems to have one - may it be from Wordpress, Blogger, Drupal, LiveJournal, or countless others - and they use it to talk about whatever they feel like - politics, entertainment, education, or that wonderful tortellini they had last night.  With the millions of blogs on the internet, many people wonder how they can give their blog a boost in traffic, get a good page ranking in search engines, or simply spread the word about it.

Below, I’ve put together 10 ways that you can get more traffic to and spread the news about your blog.  Enjoy!

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After all the years that I’ve used Photoshop, you’d think that I would have it all down by now, right? I thought so too! Until, that is, I stumbled upon a great tool that I always wanted, right in the familiar old Layer Styles dialog. That’s right, there’s an option there that I haven’t tried out until now!

Up till now, I always got frustrated over the Outer and Inner Glow styles not working the way I wanted them to.  I would create some random shape, and then set the outer and inner glow styles so that the shape would look something like a lightsaber, but it never worked quite how I wanted it.  Take, for example, the shape below:

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When I first started blogging with Tutorial Wow, I didn’t consider using an analytics program for it - it just never really crossed my mind. Then, one day, I ran across Google Analytics, and that all changed.  I used that every day, going there and seeing how I was doing on traffic and visitors, and it worked great.  But I thought I was missing something.  I thought there should be some feature so that you could see how many people were on your site right then, and I couldn’t find anything like that.  I was a little bit disappointed.

Then, after settling to be content with Google Analytics, I read an article on one of my RSS feeds that talked about a great new analytics program called Woopra that was still in Beta.  I thought it sounded interesting, so I headed over to the official Woopra website to take a look at the new rage.  What I found was truly amazing.  Not only was their website design awesome, but when I downloaded the actual Woopra Desktop Version, I just sat there with my mouth open.  Never before have I seen a program so extremely slick as this!

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I don’t know about you, but I always get frustrated trying to figure out how to get my layout to stretch vertically to 100% of the page.  I have a div that I want to stretch, but it just doesn’t stretch.  Now why wouldn’t it do that?  Today I will share the solution with you.

Say you have coded an HTML file like this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />

    <title>CSS 100% Height</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
  </head>

  <body>
    <div id="content">
      Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis autem vel eum iriure dolor in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat, vel illum dolore eu feugiat nulla facilisis at vero eros et accumsan et iusto odio dignissim qui blandit praesent luptatum zzril delenit Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat.
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

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