Vodka, pickled cucumbers and Pope John Paul II might spring to mind when someone mentions Poland. Obviously there’s more to Poland than that. On the world map of design, Poland is marked by creative agencies that produce high-level design and employ some of the best programmers in the world. There’s also a crowd of freelancers and visionaries who have received worldwide recognition.

For the people I interviewed, Web design is life. The art directors and freelancers highlighted here work in all sorts of environments, and they answer questions related to our field. You’ll have the opportunity to see Polish Web design from a number of perspectives — and to form your own opinion while browsing selected productions.

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越来越多的中小企业现在开始重视到企业网站这块营销平台了，很多企业管理人员也都不断了解到什么是搜索引擎优化(SEO)以及SEO能为网站带来的 好处。作为一个网站制作人员，如果你制作的网站能够符合SEO，将会大大增加你个人的竞争力和附加值，结果你既能在同行中脱颖而出，也能获得比原来更高的 薪水。因为很多中小企业都希望自己的员工是复合型人才，最好一个人能做两个人的事情。

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Being a web designer is not easy. Not only do we need to have a good

understanding about visual design, typography, information architecture,

psychology and a plethora of other disciplines; in our work, we need to

take care of so many details, so that our job becomes more and more

time-consuming, requiring dozens of tools, attention span and an

effective workflow for beautiful, timely and functional results.

And

this is where small time-savers become handy. Be it a handy checklist,

batch installer, dummy image generator or converter from Excel

spreadsheet to HTML — all these things can save us a couple of minutes

every day, making our work easier and more efficient. And this is why we

keep collecting them for Smashing Magazine’s readers. Whether you like

lists or not: this one will probably help you find those little nuggets

out there that will help you avoid headaches and stress. Below we

present useful time-savers for web designers.

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[Offtopic: by the

way, did you know that there is a Smashing eBook Series? Book #1 is Professional

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, 242 pages for just $9,90.]

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A lot of web developers still finding the best way to build a cross browser website. Especially

showing it on ie6 browser, your beautiful looking website in Mozilla can become

ugly and hideous website. I’m not discouraging you guys but this is the

truth. Staying out late at night designing your website will be such a

waste if not be able to show it to all the internet user right? So why having a website that

looks better in ie’s browser is also important? The main question is:

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Apache服务器的.htaccess是一个非常强大的分布式配置文件，学会使用.htaccess，对虚拟主机用户来说，可以实现众多的功能。 这里有一篇很容易理解的.htaccess介绍，作为入门文章非常的适合。文章最初来自freewebmasterhelp.com，QiRan作 了简单的中文翻译，我将加以完善。

Part 1 – 介绍

Part 2 – .htaccess命令

Part 3 – 密码保护

Part 1 – 介绍

介绍

从本指南中，你将可以学习到有关.htaccess文件及其功能的知识，并用以优化你的网站。尽管.htaccess只是一个文件，但它可以更改服 务器的设置，允许你做许多不同的事情，最流行的功能是您可以创建自定义的“404

error”页面。.htaccess并不难于使用，归根结底，它只是在一个text文档中添加几条简单的指令而已。

我的主机支持它吗？

这可能很难用简单的答案来回答。许多主机支持.htaccess，但实际上并不会特别声明，许多其他类型的主机有能力但并不允许他们的用户使 用.htaccess。一般来说，如果你的主机使用Unix或Linux系统，或任何版本的Apache网络服务器，从理论上都是支持.htaccess 的，尽管你的主机服务商可能不允许你使用它。

判断你的主机是否允许.htaccess，一个标志很好的是它是否支持文件夹密码保护。为达到此功能，主机服务商需要使用.htaccess（当 然，少数情况下他们虽提供密码保护功能，但却并不允许你使用.htaccess）。如果你不确定自己的主机是否支持.htaccess，最好的办法是上传 你自己的.htaccess文件看看是否有用，或者直接发送邮件向你的主机服务商咨询。

我该怎么做？

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