Archive for May, 2009

W3C I18N Tutorial: Character sets & encodings in XHTML, HTML and CSS

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Those pesky charsets can cause all kinds of problems.

20 CSS Short Hands You’ll Love

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Good stuff on optimising CSS

Build Your Own WordPress Themes the Easy Way

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Useful notes on WP themes for when I get around to messing around with it again

Google Searchology 2009: Search Options, Google Squared, Rich Snippets

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Matt Cutts' notes on new search initiatives at Google from the Searchology presentation
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Search ideas

Usability Study: Men Need Speed – web usability criteria show gender differences

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

Sounds as though men on the web are like men on the road. We don’t care about the bloody map, just put your foot down!
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Sitemaps: Above and Beyond the Crawl of Duty – WWW2009 EPrints

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

Abstract and links for very interesting paper on XML sitemaps
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>SplashURL

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

Neat URL shortener that comes with a bookmarklet which allows you to flash up a URL during a live presentation.
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Languages by Average word length

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

No idea why I think this is going to be useful. Or indeed whether it is accurate. However, it’s fantastic to see that average word lengths vary between languages from <3 to 15+.
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Using the Open Stream API – Facebook Developers Wiki

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

Faceboook API for news feed stream.
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Majestic-SEO : Competitive Link Intelligence

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

Interesting part-free backlink-checking service