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Is this a ripoff of that flash movie floating around a few years back or is it by the same people?

Consider promoting your website in natural (organic) search results.

A study by the world's leading experts says global warming will happen faster and be more devastating than previously thought

Nice intro to accessibility.

"The numbers clearly show that monitor sizes and resolutions are getting bigger. The most common interpretation of that is more and more people have bigger displays. But an equally valid interpretation of the numbers is the range of displays is bigger tha

A fully degradable plugin that creates the Star Rating interface based on a simple form structure.

Worth's aim is to engage audiences with the right communication at the right moment; to be creative, to deliver return on investment, and to have fun doing it.

Point 5: " Web development is a precise field. Leaving out one character of code can render an entire website useless. Good web developers always focus on making sure they understand and deliver things as accurate as possible."

User-centred design and internet software development for inclusive, accessible web communication

Outlook 2007, released next month, will stop using Internet Explorer to render HTML emails and instead use the crippled Microsoft Word rendering engine.

Some information [regarding what] people are actually expecting from a good web developer.

Automagically run programs.

We are averse to using one of the most powerful features of XHTML: the ability to extend the nodes we use with customized, semantically meaningful attributes.

"Thanks for giving me something useable, well-designed, and useful. Now, can you make it as engaging as a game or sport? Can you keep me so immersed that time and all the clutter of daily existence drops away? Where I'm under a spell that's never broken b

This is great. Go play.

I think of shelves as essentially creating and using a branch to save some changes you have been working on, but now need to set aside, or shelve, for a while.

The problem is, everyone’s doing it wrong.

...in IE7, Firefox, and Safari.

Design your own Chuck Taylor Converse shoe thingummy.

A top-ten list of ways to increase the value of LinkedIn.

This site contains information and design tools. They may not show you exactly what dichromats see, but will help you to understand which colours are easily confused.

There is an easier way; albeit at the expense of valid CSS.

The same emotional forces that prompt us to buy can also cause us to link, bookmark, and Digg. The context is different, as are the nuances, but it’s still a matter of providing compelling benefits in the form of content.

Handy space visualization. Replace SequoiaView?

What we actually need is a selector that applies to everything immediately after our floated element, or its container. The W3C spec already has this element: the adjacent selector: A + B.

Your place to buy and sell all things handmade

There needs to be another term for font-based layouts. Also, there is a mistaken assumption about the accessibility of font-based layouts.

Offers up to 19 additional work spaces to spread out your work.

Over 30 modern css-based techniques in a brief overview.

Possible present ideas...

This is the real story of our first CRAFT subscriber, Jessica Love.

...what I look for when I test, how I test for various viewing scenarios, what techniques/utilities I use for debugging and what email clients I use in my suite.

"An OpenID is simply a URL. My OpenID is simonwillison.net, the address of my weblog. I can use it to sign in to any site that supports OpenID, and because I’m the only person with control over my weblog’s homepage I’m the only person who can use th

...easily find photos on flickr that were released under the creative commons license.

Use this step-by-step process to learn more about your site's status in the Google index.

Grand Union's Christmas card. "lets you use images from Flickr to make your own customised wrapper paper".

It is easy to get caught up in the detail of the requirements and the CMS project, losing sight of the overall objectives and process.

Considering a foray into mobile web development? Following are four things you need to know before making the leap.

Javascript follow-up to Andy Budd's 24 ways article, "A Message To You, Rudy".

Most companies do a good job of providing incremental improvements to existing products and processes. What are those few who struggle with innovation doing wrong?

A Microformat Detection Extension for Firefox 2

Forms pose a series of usability and accessibility challenges, many of which are made more complex when you need to build a form to fit into a small space.

If we want to serve devices whose viewports range from 240 pixels to about 1680 pixels—and with resolution ranging from 72 to 150 pixels per inch—we need a new method.

Barbara Hadrill [...] is the bridesmaid so perturbed by our wrecking of the planet that instead of flying to Brisbane for her friend's wedding, she quit her job and set off by land and sea instead.

"Digital UK: Re-engineering the content architecture to communicate the UK’s move to digital television." Fredy's presentation for the 2nd European IA Summit, Berlin 2006.

"A single user IdP, or "Identity Provider" for the OpenID framework. It's a single PHP script with minimal dependancies."