Web Dev, Linux, WordPress & More
Dan Cederholm’s book Bulletproof Web Design 2nd Edition is now available.
I scarfed this book like carrot cake and highly recommend it to anyone interested in Web Standards and creating flexible, usable sites using semantic markup and CSS.
Oh, and if you build websites and aren’t interested in CSS and Web Standards, kiss your sweet job goodbye. 🙂 Still can’t believe y’all are out there, but I’ve seen your work.
This cool post on Design Vitality lists a bunch of sites and tools for website designers including:
Just posted the new sewmyheadon Feeds page, which lists the feeds from sewmyheadon.com and also my feeds from social networking sites including del.icio.us bookmarks, Flickr pictures & Digg news stories.
Sounds like Lucky Charms, no?
Need some help figuring out what keywords you should target on your website?
Here are some tools you can use to find keywords that are most likely to draw qualified traffic to your site.
Use the Display Element Information feature in the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar to figure out what’s Cascading in your CSS. It could save you hours of frustration, preserve handfuls of hair, and give you quick visual cues about the extended ‘family’ of an element in your CSS.
As I’ve mentioned before, if you’re not using Firefox, you darn well should be. Just do it already, okay? Here are a few reasons why.
Then download the Web Developer Toolbar; an incredibly useful, free Firefox Extension for web designers. Even after using it for well over a year, I’m still finding helpful features.