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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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• 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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• 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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• Benlog » Real-world usage sometimes includes things you don’t like
  If HTML5 fails to specify how to include RDFa markup, then the HTML Working Group has failed to capture real-world usage.
• Taming Advanced CSS Selectors | CSS | Smashing Magazine
  Despite the fact that we are all well aware of its usefulness, CSS selectors are still not used to their full potential and we sometimes have the tendency to litter our HTML with excessive and unnecessary classes and ids, divs and spans.
• Adactio: Journal—The HTML5 Equilibrium
  HTML5 is a strange character with what appears to be a split personality. Hardly surprising then that something so divided would appear to be so divisive.
• Plugins That Make WordPress Into A Company Intranet | StylizedWeb.com
  With these assortments of plug-ins we can use our favorite open source software to improve our businesses, efficiency and offer more solutions to our clients.
• ALA 289: Redesign yourself – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
  The hardest redesigns are the ones you do for yourself.
• Text Rotation with CSS
  Thankfully, many of the popular browsers of today support the ability to rotate HTML elements.
• Nice Web Type – Pure CSS text gradient (no PNGs)
  Folks, grab a copy of Safari 4.

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• 50 New CSS Techniques For Your Next Web Design | CSS | Smashing Magazine
  50 fresh CSS tricks, techniques and tutorials that will help you to improve the quality of your next web design.
• QuickFlip 2
  The jQuery Flipping Plugin Made Faster and Simpler.
• Why Standards Fail – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
  Design is for people.
• The Power of HTML 5 and CSS 3 • Perishable Press
  Goodbye <div> soup, hello semantic markup.
• Box-shadow, one of CSS3’s best new features – CSS3 . Info
  The CSS3 backgrounds and borders module has a nice new feature called box-shadow.

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• HTML 5 is a mess. Now what? – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
  XHTML 1.0—and for that matter, HTML 4.01—will continue to work long after I and my websites are gone.
• Tutorial: Multiple single.php templates in WordPress
  WordPress has loads of cool features built-in for those of us who like to treat post categories differently, but sometimes a little extra hacking is required.
• ReadWriteWeb Interview With Tim Berners-Lee, Part 2: Search Engines, User Interfaces for Data, Wolfram Alpha, And More…
  I think there was misunderstanding in the search engine industry that the Semantic Web meant metadata, and metadata meant keywords, and keywords don’t work because people lie.

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• tedr*tumblr: Right on Trent
  Forget thinking you are going to make any real money from record sales. Make your record cheaply (but great) and GIVE IT AWAY. As an artist you want as many people as possible to hear your work. Word of mouth is the only true marketing that matters.
• Stereomood, la web radio emozionale | Liquida magazine
  La musica in base al “momento emozionale”.
• HTML 5: nav ambiguity resolved – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
  An e-mail from Chairman Hickson resolves an ambiguity in the nav element of HTML 5.

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