development

Inset text can make your Web design look beautiful, and while it is cutting edge, it's also super easy for beginners to implement using CSS and a bit of HTML.

Creating text with subtle shadows and shading, that gives the impression of depth, is a widely used Web design technique on many leading blogs and websites.

You can even see it in action in the WSM4B site name - and best of all, it uses lightweight, clean CSS instead of clunky, slow images.

Here's a quick step-by-step, beginner's guide to building a website (for free, or very little cost) using one of the world's best website builders - Weebly.

The reason I chose Weebly to create a website is because hosted website builders, like Weebly, are easier to use than alternative Web design methods for small business - such as content management systems (CMS).

For small and home business startups, or traditional businesses without solid Web design skills and experience, a good website builder is the natural choice to create a professional website quickly, and cheaply.

Any top Web hosting company will be confident of retaining new clients because of the reliability and performance of their servers, along with their customer & technical support.

Because of this, leading hosting companies often (but not always) offer a limited time money back guarantee to help mitigate any financial risk on the part of their potential customers.

Of course, this encourages clients to at least try out their Web hosting services in the first place because they know they are entitled to a full refund.

The multiple traveling salesman problem (mTSP), with constraints, is a well-known mathematics problem that has many real-world applications for those brave (or foolish) enough to attempt to solve it.

Obviously, being able to determine the shortest route has great financial implications for companies that do a lot of transport - such as delivery and courier services.

Imagine being told that, at the click of a button you could reduce your travel distances and transport costs by 10%, 20%, or even 30% and more? Let alone the savings in fuel, your maintenance and wear and tear costs would be drastically reduced.

This article highlights how I have developed a PHP based Web service that is capable of returning high quality solutions to the mTSP in the "real world" - i.e. for multiple vehicles that have constraints (such as load capacity, range, etc), and locations that have constraints (such as delivery time, cold chain, visit sequence for pick up and drop off deliveries, etc).