Posts Tagged ‘books’

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• Styled CSS Menus
  A nice little gallery of customized menus, both horizontal and vertical. Not much here right now, but if this gets off the ground, it could be very useful.
• 24 ways: Using Google App Engine as Your Own Content Delivery Network
  Matt Riggott explains how to host your website (for free!) on Google's servers. The App Engine even supports custom domain names.
• The Economist: Blogging Grows Up
  Another stab at the "Is blogging dead?" question. The verdict: Yes ... WAIT -- No!
• Jeffrey Zeldman: 20 Signs You Don’t Want that Web Design Project
  So funny. And so painfully true to life.
• The Grid System
  Grids, grids, and more grids! The ultimate collection of tools and resources for grid-based design.
• Google Webmaster Central
  Essential tips for getting a new website indexed by Google.
• Feedback Army
  Usability testing on the cheap, with the help of Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Neat idea, though I'm not sure how representative the feedback would be of typical web users. Turkers are a pretty specialized breed.
• AVA7 Patterns
  Hundreds of tiled background images for building websites. Squidfingers finally has some competition.
• WebAnywhere: a browser-based screen reader
  Nice little tool to determine how your websites might sound to visually impaired users.
• Drupal.org Redesign Prototypes
  Mark Boulton and colleagues are redesigning the Drupal.org website (hooray!), and they're doing it in a completely transparent fashion (bigger hooray!). These prototypes provide a fascinating glimpse into the team's design process.
• Usability Testing Report on the WordPress Interface
  PDF file with an excellent overview of the usability testing process, as well as the results from an in-depth test
• Writing Content that Works for a Living, by Erin Kissane
  "[A]nyone who touches copy can make a difference by insisting that every chunk of text on the site is doing something concrete."
• A thorough overview of the difference between Quirks Mode and Strict Mode
  For enthusiasts only, I suspect...
• Elegant Web Typography
  Jeff Croft's Web Directions South presentation. So chock-full of good advice it's hard to know where to begin.
• If your pages validate, you're in good (but limited) company
  Opera's MAMA project tested over three million URLs, and only 4.13% of them passed the W3C validator. Why? People "just want to get their 'look at my kittens' site on the Web by any means necessary."

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