Did I mention you can learn every language you ever need to know free and simple, though on line tutorials? Well know I did. Websites like w3schools.com and many other sites offer free resources on many programing languages, css techniques, web 2.0 stuff, and some cheap code to take. Which leads us to 2.

Many people offer free code, through code examples and the related. I suggest if you can't do it don't worry someone else must have. Do a google search thats very straight forward to the point, and something that someone else may have done.
For instance if you want a white glowing button that blinks every 15 seconds in javascript, DO NOT search for "a white glowing button that blinks every 15 seconds in javascript" but search for "glowing buttons in javascript" and "blinking an object every 15 seconds in javascript." Your bound to get better solutions, speaking of forums.

Forums like thewebforums.com and others offer free connections with people that do the same thing. So if you can't find something on the Internet or if you want a easier way of doing something, sign up for a community and post all you questions. Just be sure to use common sense and ignore those people who have registered because they thought it was cool. (Even though it is cool, just make sure they know what they are doing)

Ouch! Your pocketbook and/or wallet now hurts. This is where I tell you, you'll need some good software. Don't use notepad and paint, but rather use software designed for that specific purpose.
I know commercial software comes with a whopping commercial price, but there is some awesome open source software, or cheap web software out there. For instance aptana, a open source web development studio, offers all the stuff you could have with a production level studio (like Visual Studio 2008) it offers javascript debugging, intellisense like features, php development, css debugging, and tons of useful features that will make you productive and happy.
One commercial software you have to buy, is Flash (MX, I wish it was still owned by MX not adobe), because there is no substitute and will never be.

Yahoo, is one of the worlds largest places to make searches, although it only counts for a rough 15% of all searches Yahoo! is still a big shot.

Yahoo, searches and index much the same way google does, except its adding special capabilities for its search engine, its expanding into "sematic web."

"Sematic web" is one of the slowest web2.0 ideas, but its one of the best. The idea is to interpret the meaning of the text in each page to help identify it to a specific topic, instead of just using the text itself in search of keywords. This would allow most of yahoo's searches to turn up accurate results. However not to many users, may find this an improvement because of how much time the technology will take to execute on a normal page. In the long-term it will be pretty use full. (Google, I hope your reading this!)

Yahoo, also offers one of the largest Social Networks to date, called "Facebook." Original not a yahoo partner, but is now partnered to offer the web a unique experience. Although Google's open social may prove a competitor, but yahoo with Facebook is just another reason users stick with yahoo. (I can't verify this, but multiple sites have said it)

Google, offering thousands of services based on its search engine is making millions because it was the first fully recognized search engine. Meaning other may have tried but google is the Biggest and largest search engine to date. (Although yahoo is trying to come close)

Google has a unique ideal, the idea is the web should be a free realm with shared ideas, and advertisement. Sounds web2.0 to me, thats what google seems to be. Google offers hundreds of API's from maps, to its powerful search engine, google has worked itself such a web presence that any new compititor would drop-out of the race.

Google also offers one of the largest e-mail services available. Although Yahoo is coming close, google offers the largest disk space, and spam protection system, as well as a list of number of unique features. Its also one of the fastest interfaces, although it could use some more style.

GOOGLE: For 2 reasons, one I have always used it. Second, it has a web2.0 mentality and will probably outlast all of us. Although it should follow yahoo on the semantic web thing.

• If you’re using IE6 because you don’t even know there is such a thing as a browser, let alone more than one of them, then you need to have your grandkids over so they can download Firefox and teach you how to make the fonts bigger and smaller.
• If you’re totally blind and your screen reader only works with IE6, which isn’t true anymore, then it doesn’t matter to you what size the fonts are. You’re blind.
• If you’re using a screen magnifier whose voice output only works with IE6, then font size is irrelevant because it’s a screen magnifier and its entire purpose is to blow up the type size to something you can read.

• Every browser should have buttons on its toolbars by default to make text bigger or smaller. I see that my esteemed colleague Patrick H. Lauke agrees with me on that, based on the article he wrote for Webstandards.org.
• The first time you run the browser, it should tell you about those buttons and give you the keyboard equivalents. And you should be able to bookmark that page. (I’m not sure that a browser should ask you if you need “accessibility.” Too many people would probably say no, or they just wouldn’t understand it, or they’d just click through it without reading it, like a Windows error message.)
• People who need resizable text for any reason shouldn’t use IE6 or IE7. And if they complain to you as a site developer, your advice should be to switch browsers. If they come back and say that the IT department decided on the browser and they can’t change it, then tell them they’ve nullified their own complaint and their real complaint is with the IT department.
• Your page could have a help screen like the BBC’s, which attempts to teach people how to use their own browsers. It might be a good idea. But ten years into the Web, I refuse to believe that people cannot learn how to press Ctrl-plus or Ctrl-minus or hit a couple of buttons on a toolbar.
• Browsers should remember your text-zoom setting per page, which is what the NoSquint extension for Firefox does.

Microsoft Vista (Vista means sight, I believe, in Spanish) was launched come this year but was still described as "a work in progress" (CEO Steve Ballmer).
If anyone was happy enough to enjoy the excruciating pain in installing it you will enjoy having to upgrade you PC because of the new found OS Requirements. Vista requires 512mb of system memory, 20g of computer space (ouch thats a lot for a os to suck up), and Direct X 9 graphics card compatibility - Home version only. Where if you really want the good stuff you'll need a excellent graphics card (256mb or higher), 1 g of ram, and a pixel shader (another reason to get mad at Microsoft for making me buy a 512mb graphics card.)

Guess what, how many people arn't upgrading: LOTS, about 65% of people arn't upgrading. Why? Microsoft vista doesn't have backwards compatibility. In English: that nice game you got for xp won't play good in vista. The game may crash in the middle of an important battle scene and you forgot to save.

Microsoft Vista gets top place for being the worst OS in history. (Besides DOS - Ish)

Microsoft office 2007 doesn't stink in fact it is one of the best office editions I can think of. Its light weight, it has low requirements, and its backwards compatible but...

Microsoft neglicated to tell me it was out. If it wasn't for my MSN subscription or logging in to Live (another nightmare), I would never know Microsoft developed office 2007. When they rolled it out that relied on there sellers to go switch from 2003 to 2007. Most did after a year.

The next problem with office is the stupid Microsoft 2007 copy and paste. Instead of copying just the fromated stuff, it will copy the style names the tags the css (and mom along with it.)

Next is Micro-ML or XML on steroids, have you ever opened a .docx in notepad, I don't suggest it. It has every tag under the sun and then some. Why not stick with .doc and not confuse the millions of people who can't upgrade or dare not try.

Microsoft got a stupid idea, but to revamp its infamous msn page to a Microsoft Live page.

It offers everything it can but its a cheap knock off of google.com. If you read my last Blog, I told you the horrid problems about copying sites like Google.com. Google owns millions of users because it works and it doesn't spam you to death (like the MSN counterpart), there is no way you are going to get any of them unless you offer something unique that Google doesn't (yet) do.

Microsoft live wins The worst Microsoft Re-name Award. Lets rename it to Live and we will get more customers. Ya right, live is already on my black list. Sry.

Really the newest version isn't bad, but its still a cheap rip-off of Macromedia's Flash. (I know its owned by Adobe, but it was way better off when it was Macromedia.)

Originally I thought that they would build there own GUI and incorporate the 2008 studio and the .net framework. Originally it didn't, but Microsoft started to learn better and is making Silverlight to be a expensive knock off of Adobe Air.

Microsoft Silverlight gets A blue medal for trying the same thing all over again. Just because it lost a law suit...

Microsoft hates its frontpage program. I hate the frontpage program, so SharePoint and Expression were invented. Sharepoint has some merit so I'm not complaining on it, but Expression Blend (sounds like a flavor of coffee - "I'd like the Micro-House coffee please") is a black version of dreamweaver.

That was not racist but it literally is a poor contrasted black style that makes me want to label it a Dream- of Dreamweaver. Hello, Microsoft just because you can do it, doesn't mean you should.

Expression is a Micro-Ripoff!