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Google is always coming up with new services and geeks are always mashing up new tricks. See Martin’s Google blog posts.


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Design
Various links to articles on design, search engine optimization techniques, etc.

Firefox
I highly recommend the Firefox web browser. I try to make sure my favorite extensions are listed here.

Google
Google is always coming up with new services and geeks are always mashing up new tricks.

Media
I don’t do too much video or audio but my cheap digital camera has a video mode and I’ve been a happy user of YouTube since shortly after it launched. Here are my video and audio media links.

Movable Type
Most of my sites run on the Movable Type blogging platform, which I also use as a Content Management System. These links take you to some of my favorite extensions and hacks.

RSS
The heart of the new tech movement is RSS which usually stands for “Really Simple Syndication.” It’s a format that allows different websites to pass along time-bound data, such as blog posts, news items, etc.

SEO
Everyone wants to know how to show up in search engines. SEO is one of the most mis-understood concepts on the web.

Web 2.0
I love a lot of the newer internet services that allow collaboration and easy integration with one another. Dubbed the “Web 2.0” movement, these are some sites I use. My blog aggregator site uses a lot of this services, and my Powered By page there shows how I’ve used them.

 

Latest in Google Links:

sIFR

Flash/javascript rich fonts for websites

Pro Tips from Freshbooks: Improving the usability of your website

Above all else, always try to keep this mantra in mind when designing or developing ? you are not your user. What?s obvious and simple to you may not be for the people who will be actually using your product.

Google's tips for making information universally accessible

You can think of the Google crawler as the world's most influential blind user. The content that matters most to the Googlebot is the content that matters most to the blind user: good, quality text.

Hugh MacLeod's How To Be Creative manifesto

26 hard-earned tips for being truly creative. Dont' follow crowds, don't hide behind pillars, don't take friends' advice too seriously and most importantly follow the Sex and Cash Theory. Via http://kaushik.net

twitterfeed.com : feed your blog to twitter

Pulls RSS feeds into Twitter accounts

So, What happened to Your Blog?

An explanation of a new stream-of-consciousness blogging style

Php resources, scripts and tutorials: content / micro login system

"Micro Login System is a simple PHP based user login system which stores user registration information in a flat file... It is easy to install and change the design via CSS. The package contains a login, logout and a registartion forms as well."

User Management software at Hotscripts.com

37 Signals on Newspapers and web design

"Good newspaper design is all about effectively presenting large quantities of text/information in a usable, straightforward way. That?s got a lot more in common with good web design than most of the sexy print pieces you find in design magazines/annual

Tech Crunch reviews five of the new breed of mash-up generators

"Here we run through 5 applications that allow you to mix, rip and mash your data, looking at the data input, output, REST support, suggested use, and required skill level."

Web 2.0 how-to design style guide

"Web 2.0" reduced to an aesthetic, tips on how to get that "now" look.

Web aesthetics: don't use DLLs in your URLs

Advice against using default URLs of CMS programs like Publicus: "It's non-intuitive, damages the potential marketability (a URL's sexiness) of the site, reeks of 1998 web practices, debatably a security risk, and basically tells the entire world and deve

Quick CSS site mockups

How to build good design mockups in CSS without having to do ridiculous amounts of hand-coding afterwards. From A List Apart.

Church website design as extension of real-world ministry

a critique of lazy "brochure-ware"

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