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A wonderful link I received recently is for an article about 50 beautful css-based web designs. The featured designs are really refreshing and vary in both layout and color. I’m an avid reader of CSS Zen Garden so, of course, I loved this link! Bookmarked for inspiration.
Other collections of CSS Designs you might find interesting…

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“Most people think web design is a technical field. And, of course, it is — to some degree. But it’s also a creative field, and I don’t think most people understand this. When I tell people I’m a web designer, their response is often, “oh great, you can help me fix my printer.” Or, “oh, […]

I recently did a layout that required equal height columns with boxes inside the columns. I didn’t want to use tables, not because it’s not cool anymore, but because it’s difficult to maintain. Reading through embeded tables and trying to figure out where that missing td is…well, I certainly don’t miss it.
In addition, each page […]

Blogging software has been often confused with being a Content Management System. While the application of blogging software is used to manage articles (a.k.a “posts”), it’s important to remember that articles are not all that the term ‘content’ implies when comparing blog software to full-blown CMS software.
Content also includes photos, web forms, calendars, products and […]

I recently ran across SEOmoz.com and found the Page Strength Tool really useful for accessing inbound links, visibility and other SEO factors. Since my original visit, a new tool has been added to determine the difficulty of ranking for a particular keyword. Visit SEOmoz’s tool section.

I just installed Landing sites, a wordpress search engine related plugin that shows related posts when a visitor comes from a known search engine. The plugin installed easily and without error (thank goodness).
This is a great tool for a wordpress blog because it makes content easy to find for visitors searching on keywords through the […]

What is the importance of web standards in Search Engine Optimization? Let’s look at what Brad Callen, current SEO expert, has to say about it…

How did I get on the first page of Google results in less than 21 days? Without the use of meta keywords in SEO…do meta-keywords matter?

Google has released “Google Browser Sync” to allow users to synch favorites, history and browser information between computers. The firefox plugin from Google continuously syncs information between the computers you set up with your existing google account. So if you’re worried about losing your information (hey, windows users!), try out the firefox plugin for Google […]

Adobe Flex is an amazing development in online applications. In a nutshell, Flex brings the power of a desktop application to your browser. I know everyone’s claiming that these days, but this looks really promising.
Flex was originally released in October of 2005 by Macromedia to augment Macromedia’s Flash and ActionScript products. Luckily, Adobe has continued […]