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IcoFX - The Free Icon Editor

IcoFX - The Free Icon Editor

A Markup That Could Have Big Implications for SEO | WebProNews

This article by WebProNews
says that RDFa (Resource Description Framework in attributes) is becoming increasingly used to help search engines determine relevance and provide "rich snippets" in search results which are shown to increase click-throughs.

Copy and paste images into web-based WYSIWYG editors

PicturePaste allows you to copy and paste images from the Windows clipboard into web-based rich text editors, such as those used by gmail, google docs, blogger, wordpress etc.

Sitepoint have done a write-up about it.

Might mean that for some people the commercial plug-in for TinyMCE is no longer necessary.

Cappuccino Web Framework - Learn About Cappuccino and Objective-J

Cappuccino Web Framework - Learn About Cappuccino and Objective-J

The Iceberg Secret, Revealed - Joel on Software

The Iceberg Secret, Revealed - Joel on Software

The Law of Leaky Abstractions - Joel on Software

The Law of Leaky Abstractions - Joel on Software

The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) - Joel on Software

The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) - Joel on Software

IE6 & 7 don't support "inherit" CSS values

This post from Stack Overflow suggests that IE6 & IE7 only support "inherit" as a CSS value for "direction" and "visibility".

Caused me much pain when trying to override font sizes and colours for an implementation of ECWID for Moffats.

Thomas Landauer: Preventing Spam in Form Submissions without Using a CAPTCHA

Preventing Spam in Form Submissions without Using a CAPTCHA
an article by Thomas Landauer

Magic Zoom examples

Magic Zoom examples

URL Rewriting for Beginners - Added Bytes

URL Rewriting for Beginners - Added Bytes

Show If

I don't advocate some of the suggested uses, or agree with the solutions implemented by all of the testimonials, but I might need to come back to Show If some day...?

frequency decoder - accessible, unobtrusive slider demo

A rather nice set of accessible, unobtrusive slider controls on Frequency Decoder.

PHP QR Code Generator

PHP QR Code Generator

The rules of email engagement | Blog | Econsultancy

The rules of email engagement | Blog | Econsultancy

OO JavaScript Programming - Sitepoint

Sitepoint has an article on Object-Oriented JavaScript Programming:

- Part 1

- Part 2

Response to “In Defense of Vertical Navigation” | Impressive Webs Toronto

Response to “In Defense of Vertical Navigation” | Impressive Webs Toronto.

Some people just don't know when to let it go :-)

In Defense of Vertical Navigation

In Defense of Vertical Navigation (the saga gets going...)

The Case Against Vertical Navigation - Smashing Magazine

The Case Against Vertical Navigation - Smashing Magazine

Not sure I agree with all of this, but useful reading none the less.

A List Apart: Articles: The Myth of Usability Testing

A List Apart: Articles: The Myth of Usability Testing

fivesecondtest

fivesecondtest - simple, instant feedback on your designs.

“Component encapsulation using Object-Oriented JavaScript” — Mike West

“Component encapsulation using Object-Oriented JavaScript” —

Mike West

97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know - O'Reilly Media

97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know
- O'Reilly Media

Working with Events, part 2 - Learning jQuery - Tips, Techniques, Tutorials

Working with Events, part 2 - Learning jQuery - Tips, Techniques, Tutorials

Removing the element outline on links without hurting keyboard users

This article by Patrick Lauke suggests

a:hover, a:active { outline: none; }

to remove the annoying outlines left behind "off-lefted" link elements without leaving keyboard-only users without any clue as to which element they currently have selected.

Icon plug-in for paint.net

Plug-in for paint.net that allows you to open and save .ico icon files.
See forum post(s) for more details.

Symphony CMS

Symphony CMS uses PHP, XML, XSLT and mod_rewrite for a modular and flexible approach to content management.

Not tried it yet but it looks worth a go...