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• Mike Davidson – Lessons From The Roundabout SEO Test
  The Google Vacuum Tests.
• Google SEO Test – Google Prefers Valid HTML & CSS | Hobo
  Well we’ve started to get some results in from our qualitative Google SEO Mythbuster Test #1 (Does Google Like Valid Code?) and the results we have….is yes!
• Is the link economy of UK news sites managing or making abundance? | Media | guardian.co.uk
  Nick Bilton discovered for UK Wired this month, that news sites average around 450 links on their homes pages, whereas 10 years ago they averaged just 12 links per home page.
• Perfect Pitch
  So let’s get this straight. In a discussion about perfect pitch, someone mentions the website perfectpitch.com. They don’t repost any materials from the site. They don’t even link to the site. They don’t really say anything particularly disparaging. But it all takes is for the owner of perfectpitch.com to abuse the Digitial Millenium Copyright Act with a spurious complaint and just like that, Google removes the discussion from its search index.
• Realigning For A Beautiful Web using HTML5, CSS transforms and transitions | For A Beautiful Web
  HTML5 and CSS transforms and transitions to spice up the interface.
• 10 problems your content management system will not solve and how to overcome them « Boagworld
  Content management systems are often perceived as a silver bullet that will solve all your content problems. In reality having a CMS is not enough. You must also address broader issues associated with the content of your website.

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• Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Help us make the web better: An update on Rich Snippets
  If you have review or people/social networking content on your site, it's easier than ever to mark up your content using microformats or RDFa so that Google can better understand it to generate useful Rich Snippets.
• Detecting HTML5 Features – Dive Into HTML5
  HTML5 is not one big thing; it is a collection of individual features.
• Drupal Moves Into the White House – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com
  The fact of the matter is that Drupal seems to be doing just fine with or without government support.
• jQuery for Designers – Tutorials and screencasts
  Learn how easy it is to apply web interaction using jQuery.
• A List Apart: Articles: Never Get Involved in a Land War in Asia (or Build a Website for No Reason)
  The formation of strategy isn’t one of the most popular aspects of web development, but it should be.
• Shorewalker.com – Why Mr Web Design changed direction
  David Siegel doesn't really design Web sites any more. These days he advises companies on Web strategy.

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• WhiteHouse.gov Goes Drupal [Updated] | Personal Democracy Forum
  WhiteHouse.gov has gone Drupal.
• White House Now Uses Drupal | drupal.org
  White House Now Uses Same Open Source Platform CampaignFoundations.com Uses to Host your Campaign Website.
• 51 Web Apps for Web Designers and Developers – Web.AppStorm
  Web design and development has significantly changed over the years, as have the tools and technologies involved. With these advancements come tools to make our lives easier, provide higher quality work and better services for our clients.
• A top down look at the CannyBill redesign | For A Beautiful Web
  With the first phase of the CannyBill redesign process drawing to a close, I would like to say a huge thank-you to the CannyBill team for encouraging a public, open design process and to everyone who has commented and tweeted their helpful suggestions.
• The myth of the page fold: evidence from user testing | cxpartners
  Why we don’t worry about the fold.

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• MediaPost Publications Report: Top Keyword Price Nears $100 Per Click 10/15/2009
  The highest-priced keyword in the United States last month sold on Google for $99.44 per click, according to the AdGooroo Search Engine Advertising Update: Q309.
• CSS Differences in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 « Smashing Magazine
  One of the most bizarre statistical facts in relation to browser use has to be the virtual widespread numbers that currently exist in the use of Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 and 8.
• Panatta e le magliette rosse "Così sfidai il dittatore Pinochet" – la storia – Repubblica.it
  L'impresa della Davis del 1976 ora diventa un film di Mimmo Calopresti.
• W3C Semantic Web Activity News – HTML+RDFa First Draft Published
  The HTML Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of HTML+RDFa.
• The Coming HTML 5 Train Wreck | XML Today
  We'll be back to the days of the late HTML 3 spec, where web designers despaired of having their web pages act even remotely consistently between browsers, where coders will continue to learn bad habits that not only create more headaches for other coders but also contribute to the overall cost of products, will have web browsers on the desktop that are increasingly out of step with their XML-compliant counterparts in mobile devides.

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• Interview with Web Usability Guru, Jakob Nielsen | Webdesigner Depot
  "I find it quite amusing that in the early days of Web usability, critics complained that you couldn’t apply usability methods to websites because they only work for software applications."
• Can You Be a Web Designer?
  Got what it takes?
• XML on the Web
  Primarily (and getting all touchy-feely on you) the Web isn’t a data transfer mechanism, it’s about communication. Forgiving browsers and liberal validation rules lower the barrier to entry to publishing on the Web.
• Allan Jardine | Reflections | Grid
  Grid is a highly configurable JavaScript bookmarklet which overlays a layout grid on any web-site you wish.
• mezzoblue § Starting with @font-face
  Native CSS @font-face rule is becoming increasingly viable.
• Il futuro dei giornali? Va cercato altrove | Apogeonline
  Il giornalismo è un bene pubblico terribilmente costoso, per il quale stanno venendo meno tutte le storiche fonti di finanziamento.

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• A List Apart: Articles: Internal Site Search Analysis: Simple, Effective, Life Altering!
  Understanding of your site visitors’ intent is one of the most delightful parts of web data analysis.
• 35 Stylish And Modern WordPress Plugins Using jQuery UI | Graphic and Web Design Blog -Resources And Tutorials
  In this post you’ll find out about very flexible and stylish WordPress plugins, which are based on Jquery UI.
• Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking
  Google has ignored the keywords meta tag for years and currently we see no need to change that policy.
• University of British Columbia Selects WordPress « WordPress Publisher Blog
  A Place of Mind is a web site created for the University of British Columbia to aggregate their content from a variety of online sources like YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, and blogs. The site is configured to pull feeds from these sources and import specially tagged posts.
• SlickMap CSS — A Visual Sitemapping Tool for Web Developers
  A simple stylesheet for displaying finished sitemaps directly from HTML unordered list navigation.

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• Adactio: Journal—HTML5 test results
  I don’t think there needs to be a section element and an article element. I don’t have a particularly strong opinion about which one should stay and which one should go but a little trimming is definitely in order.
• 3 ways to make your site stand out from the crowd « Boagworld
  Too many websites look the same as their competition. If you want users to remember your site it needs to stand out from the crowd.
• CSS: Design Out Of The Box
  Are you tired of your typical columned and boxed layout?
• This is your site. This is your site on HTML5. | Bb RealTech
  I decided to take a closer look at the elements, particularly at how I would use them for my Drupal sites.
• Popular Search Engines in the 90’s: Then and Now
  This article harks back to the days of AltaVista, HotBot, and when Ask was still Ask Jeeves.

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• WordPress Just Made Millions of Blogs Real-Time With RSSCloud
  RSSCloud is an element that's always been present in the RSS 2.0 spec but has drawn new attention with the rise of interest in the Real-Time Web.
• Leggere sullo schermo: meno facile di quanto pensiamo – Il blog del Mestiere di Scrivere
  Non abbiamo mai letto e scritto così tanto, ma la nostra capacità di comprensione e assimilazione segna il passo.
• Dinky pocketbooks with WebKit transforms | Natalie Downe
  I''m a big fan of stuff written on paper. My computer is covered in useful post-it notes, and I do a lot of planning on paper at the start of every client-side build.
• XHTML & CSS Lightbox
  No Javascript.
• Modernizr
  Have you ever wanted to do if-statements in your CSS for the availability of cool features like border-radius?

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• Bruce Lawson’s personal site  : This millenium in HTML 5 (politics)
  OK, so it’s not quite a millenium but the flame wars, bitch fests on the mailing list make it feel that way.
• HTML 5: The Markup Language
  This specification describes the fifth major version of the HTML language and provides details necessary for producers of HTML content to create documents that conform to the language. By design, it does not define related APIs nor attempt to specify how consumers of HTML content are meant to process documents.
• Google inimitabile brevetto sul sito – Tecnologia – Repubblica.it
  Per la prima volta il design di un'homepage viene vincolato a copyright. Il colosso dei motori di ricerca afferma così un primato e crea un precedente.
• 20 Excellent JavaScript Navigation Techniques and Examples
  JavaScript allows you to add interactivity and feedback, making the user’s experience better and more intuitive.
• Concept Feedback | Free Concept Reviews for Marketers, Designers and Developers
  Getting ready to launch a brand new concept? Would you like to know what other professionals think before you release it to the world?

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• Yahoo! Search Blog » Blog Archive » See More SearchMonkey in Your Search Results
  Want a little more SearchMonkey in your Yahoo! search results? Starting today, more enhanced results for product, local, entertainment, reference, social, and tech sites will appear automatically in your results, putting more information and answers right at your fingertips.
• Copyediting: Man vs. Machine – (37signals)
  Lesson learned: Don’t be so quick to dismiss the old in favor of the new just because the new seems like it should be better.
• Typedia: A Shared Encyclopedia of Typefaces
  Typedia is a resource to classify, categorize, and connect typefaces.
• Edge: HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK? By Lera Boroditsky
  For a long time, the idea that language might shape thought was considered at best untestable and more often simply wrong. Research in my labs at Stanford University and at MIT has helped reopen this question.
• Loving HTML5 – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
  Some friends and I gathered at Happy Cog’s New York studio to hash out the pros and cons of HTML5 from the perspective of semantic-markup-oriented web designers.

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