Google’s Dangerous Precedent

CS4 is a Steaming Pile of Poo

To Hate Magento is Divine ...

Magento made huge waves in the open source shopping cart community less than two years ago. The platform was the slickest, easiest to use out-of-the-box, and most robust eCommerce option web developers had ever seen. For designers, it never came close to

Blunt Words for Design School Students

After many years of providing free advice and countless hours spent reviewing resumes and portfolios, we can honestly report that we are a very hard-to-impress lot at 16toads.  Which is a nice way of saying we don't fear for our jobs.  Why?  Well, aside from

Educationally Challenged:  Improving the state of web education in our nation’s colleges.

A List Apart recently published two advertorials written by two active members of the Web Standards Project. Brighter Horizons for Web Education by Aarron Walter is an advertisement for a curriculum he has helped develop for teaching web standards at the

Magento Upgrade Relief

I had been actively avoiding upgrading a client's Magento installation since the latest release 1.2 was announced a few weeks ago.  One of the biggest knocks against this platform is that the development team didn't take standardizing function names very

TurboToad Pro Kicks Ass

Email Marketing just got even easier. It's been a long time coming, but we've completed a major overhaul of our flagship email marketing tool, TurboToad Pro. We've drastically improved everything from our reporting tools to list management and the content

16toads accepted into the ExpressionEngine Pro Network

We are very pleased to shout that 16toads has recently been accepted into the ExpressionEngine Pro Network.

We found Expression Engine after a long and frustrating search for a CMS platform we felt comfortable recommending to our clients. After plodding