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Free Colour Selection Tools For Webmasters and Graphic Designers
Paint your idea with right colors. Here are some tools to make your life little easy when you are on hunt for a new color scheme. From color picker to scheme generators, these tools are must for every webamster, graphic designer or anyone who need...
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One-way links, reciprocal links, three-way-links. What's best?
There's a lot of rumor about one-way links, reciprocal links and three-way links on the Internet. Which of these links will work best for your business and which links do you need to get higher search engine rankings?
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Holy CSS Zeldman!
An exaustive list of CSS links, and other Web designer/developer resources.
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Expression Lessons

A very nice set of Expression lessons via Jason

This morning I found these great lessons for learning Expresion Graphic Designer this morning. Looks like it was created by Annie Ford. Very useful for a non designer, like myself.

Do reciprocal links still work?
Rumor has it that reciprocal links are not as effective as one way links. Some people in online discussion forums claim that one way links from a website to another site work far better than reciprocal links. Is this true and what do you have to do about this?
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Behind the Scenes with Apache's .htaccess
Although I'm a designer and not a programmer or server-side specialist, for a few years I've used Apache's .htaccess to a limited degree for clients' websites, primarily for simple URL redirects and setting up custom error pages. Now that I can use Apache's .htaccess for my own websites, I've been immersed in learning more about how to use this powerful tool conservatively but effectively to redirect URLs and to combat spammers and bad bots. Today's post provides links to some of the online sources that I've found especially helpful. (3024 words, 91 links)
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Can too many links hurt your website?
Many webmasters are unsure if too many links can hurt their website rankings. Others think that links to a brand-new site might be a spam indicator. How many links are good for a website? Should you wait before getting links to your site?
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Better Links for Better Ranking
The type, authority, quality, and quantity of links that link to your site is critical to great search engine placement. The Internet is based on links....
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The effect of outgoing links on your web site
While most webmasters are aware that incoming links are important to the success of a web site, many site owners don't know that outgoing links also have an impact on their web sites. Learn how outgoing links influence search engines and web site visitors.
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Structure your menus by marking them up as lists.
A navigation menu is - if we are speaking structurally - a list; but it is rare to find a developer/designer who marks them up as such. I guess the reason for this is that designers don't want to have ugly big bullet points littering their menu's, or seemingly uncontrollable margins throwing out their carefully crafted layouts.So, is it possible to use the correct structural markup, and still make your menus look the way you want them to?A recent rash of articles and tools have appeared to demonstrate that the answer is a resounding yes; you can use CSS to style lists to look more-or-less any way you want.First, undermine your previous assumptions by visiting the Listamatic website to see examples of different list styles (with the CSS used for each): Then visit Mark Newhouse's Taming Lists tutorial to learn how to make your own: And finally - if you can't be bothered learning how to do it yourself - have a look at Accessify's new List-o-matic - where you fill in a few forms, and the List-o-matic tool does all the hard work for you: Why is this relevant to accessible web design?Using the appropriate markup for all the structures in your web documents is the first step towards making them accessible; web pages need to be accessible to the tools, i.e. the 'user agents' people use first, before they can be accessible to the people themselves. Using valid standards based markup means you have the best chance of your pages being understood by those intermediate 'user agents' (usually that means computers and web browsers to you and me).The tips archive is at: Weekly accessible Web Design Tips.Register for your weekly accessible web design tip.Feedback from Andrew Arch Andrew Arch, the Manager Online Accessibility Consulting, National Information and Library Service has been in touch with some valuable feedback in relation to some of my recent accessible web design tips.Re: How to make printable characters between adjacent links invisible:'I used this tip with many clients in the past - a good one for thedesigners who can get very precious about their 'masterpiece'.'Andrew sent the following comments for consideration: even some new speaking browsers (eg HPR) can't distinguish links clearlywhile reading (HPR is fine when you bring up a link list) unless there is a character between them what we have found people doing is using a graphic between links for design purposes - this is ok, but the alt text needs to be set to '
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IQ Systems: Get the Most Value from Trade Show Leads
St. Louis based IQ Systems’ widely used sales lead organizational system promises to maximize the benefits of trade show leads (PRWEB Jun 29, 2006)
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Have you removed links after pagerank update?
I was wondering how webmaster’s responded to the recent pagerank update. Did you remove your paid links? Or did you add no follow on your “friends” links?Getting into the topic, on this blog, I still have those links as follow and never responded to that google pagerank decreasing update. As long as I get those [...]
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Welcome to Makadco : Web Designing, corporate Identity, Multimed
Welcome to Makadco : Web Designing, corporate Identity, Multimed. web design: web designer Makadco is a team of enthusiastic and self-motivated confident professionals who are in market to incorporate the latest trends of advertising and marketing in Pakistan, in particular, and in globe, at large. Our prime services are graphic designing, desktop print advertising, website design development and multimedia interactive CDs. We do have several satisfied partners internationally in these service areas along with local. . .
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What Google thinks about hidden and paid links
Some webmasters use hidden or paid links to increase the link popularity of their websites. Google's anti-spam engineer Matt Cutts recently commented on these links. Can you get in trouble?
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Google's new Sitelinks and your web site
Google recently started to include a set of links below some results to pages within the site. These new additional links are called Sitelinks. Read this article to learn how these links might affect your web site.
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All Business Owners Should Know these 10 Things Before Building a Website

10 things all business owners should know before they have a website built.

I loved the article "10 things businesses should know before building a website" over at 456 Berea Street . Here are their top 10 with my comments added:

Understand what you want. Too many businesses really don't know what they want from their website . Have you researched who your online customers are? Do you know what keywords they search for? Do you know what sites they visit? Do you know why they are looking for your site? If you don't, they you don't know what you want. You want happy customers. That's what you want (and hopefully more income as a result).
It costs more and takes longer than you think. I can't count the number of times I've been asked how long a website takes, but every time they are shocked at the average development time. However, nearly every time we have "wait time" with a website, it has been caused by the clients' inaction (not sending in copy, not sending pictures, not signing off on part of the project, etc.) You can eliminate most of the wait time by having content, pictures, etc. ready for your developer to dump into the design.
A web site has several pieces; don't cut corners. You should keep in mind the following aspects: Design - Does it look and act like my client expects?, Content - Does the site provide the information my clients are looking for?, SEO - Will clients be able to find my site once we make it live?, Future Additions - Have I adequately planned ahead so that I don't have to waste time interfacing the new features with existing ones.
Balance glitz and guts. A good website mainly provides the information that people are looking for and does it in a pleasing way, but content wins out every time .
If you build it, they won't necessarily come. If you don't have a unique value proposition you will not get any sales except from nice old Grandma Elna who bought something just to be nice. Something about your business must attract the more savvy online customers of today.
Avoid bit decay; the site needs maintenance. Technology is ever changing and hopefully your business is keeping up. You need a plan to update, maintain, and improve your website on a monthly, if not weekly basis. Ask yourself, "How is my target audience changing, and how can I quickly adapt to their needs?"
Treat the web team as professionals. You and the designer both have specific roles you must fill for your website to succeed.
Most people in the web industry are clueless. Just because your daughter's friend's brother built a website when he was in 4th grade, that does not qualify him as a web designer. Just because your daughter's friend's brother is a graphic designer, that does not qualify him as a web designer. Just because your daughter's friend's brother owns a pirated version of Frontpage, that does not qualify him as a web designer.
You get what you pay for. I think we covered your daughter's friend's brother well enough above.
Don't start your project by buying a CMS. A content management system is not the way to start. Ask your web designer, they probably have a better and more customized answer for your needs.

Now these are not an "all inclusive" list by any means. However, these will help you start off on the right foot. If I were to add a #11 to the list it would be Have your site built with the customer in mind. If people can't find your site because of poor SEO, or if people can't use your site because or poor navigation, or if you don't provide information that people want, your site will fail. Fail to understand your customers and you might was well give your website money away to charity where it would do some good.
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Anchor Links And Their Importance
Anchor links are a very important part of your Page Rank.They serve several purposes and will improve your rank by using popular keywords. Here are a few points to get maximum benefit from them.So what are anchor links? These are links based on one of your keywords or key phrases, which will be based on the keywords and phrases in your content page or article. This will replace the URL or just a command to “click here.”
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Rapid increase of site wide incoming links
I have tested myself the effect of rapid increase of site wide incoming links to a website to check what will be the actual effect on search engines crawling my sites. Note that this is no way a method of rapid incoming links via a script that will auto generate links or any doorway pages [...]
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Reciprocal links are alive and kicking
A while back there was quite a bit of scare mongering going around the SEO industry about how reciprocal links were dead. No, reciprocal links are not dead and now I have the proof.
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New Online Broker 'SogoInvest' Sets Lowest $3 Per Trade Fee
Announcing the launch of SogoInvest, a new and unique online brokerage, setting the lowest $3 per trade commission fees on the Internet, with no hidden fees or account minimums. (PRWEB Jul 11, 2006) Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/chachingpr.php/U3F1YS1aZXRhLUVtcHQtU3F1YS1JbnNlLVplcm8=
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Should you buy text links?
Many text link broker websites have appeared on the Internet. These websites allow you to rent links from other websites on a monthly basis. Is this something you should consider for your website? What can you expect from these text links?
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Form Designer.Net
Deliver a complete, feature rich form designer application with unbelievably small amount of code. Let application user reconfigure the layout of ...
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Professional Surfboard Builder Reveals Trade Secrets
The surfboard industry has long kept its methods of production hidden from the public, handing down tecniques from master to apprentice in a highly secretive fashion. In his tell-all book,"Shaping and Glassing", professional shaper Steven Miller stirs up controversy by revealing trade secrets to ameteurs. (PRWEB Jul 6, 2006)
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The perfect incoming link for high search engine rankings
It's important that you get the right kind of links if you want to get high rankings on Google. If you have 20 good incoming links then you'll get better rankings than with 100 bad incoming links. So what makes a good incoming link? There are several points that can make a link better than other links.
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Part 2: User-friendly Contextual Navigation with Simple PHP Includes
Building on the previous post, User-friendly Contextual Navigation with Simple PHP Includes, I thought I'd take things one small and simple step further by using PHP once again, this time to add a CSS class for the current page. Then it's easy to use this CSS class to create a helpful visual cue within your navigation. Read the entire post for a simple way to accomplish this, PHP code, markup, CSS, and graphic examples. (1001 words, 5 links, 4 images)
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The data worlds of Alex Dragulescu, pt.1
Alex Dragulescu: Spam Architecture (detail) / Spam Plants (detail)Romanian artist Alex Dragulescu turns data sets into raw materials for the generation of tantalizing 2D and 3D forms. Rather than scientific visualization intent on clarifying the content of the data, Dragulescu creates graphic and temporal compositions notable for their strong graphic qualities. Spam Architecture is one [...]
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Fort Lauderdale Graphic Design Firm Gains Event Marketing and Meeting Management Firm as Client
S.MARK Graphics Florida Inc. has been awarded the graphic design account of American Meetings, Inc. (AMI) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The work includes the development of on-going services including logo identities, invitations, signage, web site development and maintenance as well as marketing campaigns and advertising. (PRWEB Jul 5, 2006) Trackback URI: http://www.prweb.com/zingpr.php/SG9yci1Db3VwLUluc2UtUGlnZy1JbnNlLVplcm8=
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Mariah Carey And A Mystery English Designer?
World Entertainment News Network reports that Mariah Carey is fronting her own fashion line for a mystery British designer."She is so excited about it. It gives her something new to concentrate on," a source close to the diva revealed.
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Do no-follow links count for search engine rankings?
Actually, the rel=nofollow attribute should prevent search engines from following special links. Some webmasters might have found out that nofollow links will help your search engine rankings though.
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Trade Web Design For Content Writing
Web - Design: Trade Web Design For Content Writing. Website Promotion By Dell from Philippines 3 comments. Is there anyone care for a trading content writing for web design Ill design your website then youll help me with the content writing.[1] Website development are also possible depending on how much help you will offer.[2] This offer was good for those who want to start up a content writing services.[3] The contents will be like outsourcing in the philippines as an alternative to outsourcing to india. ...
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How many links on each page
Directory - Free: How many links on each page . Directory - Free By Nancy from Los Angeles I am building a new directory and was curious how many links should be placed on each page 10 50 or ...
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Official Google Stand on Link selling
Google officially announced its stand on buying and selling links via their google webmaster blog,If, however, a webmaster chooses to buy or sell links for the purpose of manipulating search engine rankings, we reserve the right to protect the quality of our index. Buying or selling links that pass PageRank violates our webmaster guidelines. Such [...]
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MCU: Accessible Web Design Tip: How to make printable characters between adjacent links invisible.
Some older screen readers are unable to distinguish between adjacent links if there is no printable character between them. The W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 provides a priority 3 checkpoint to deal with this unfortunate behaviour of older screen readers:10.5 Until user agents (including assistive technologies) render adjacent links distinctly, include non-link, printable characters (surrounded by spaces) between adjacent links. The obvious place on a page where you can find several adjacent links to is on a horizontal navigation bar at the top or bottom of a web page. So how do you adhere to this guideline in situations where displaying a printed character in your navigation bar would upset your beautifully crafted design?This weeks tips shows a technique I have used on the Glasgow West End website (http://www.glasgowwestend.co.uk) to make the printable characters separating links invisible, by making them the same colour as the navigation bar background, postcards
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Computers & Internet:Graphic Design:Desktop Publishing:General
Search in Computers & Internet:Graphic Design:Desktop Publishing:General
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New Website Tutorialism.com Offers a Free Social Bookmarking Service for Online Tutorials, Allowing Users to Submit Their Favorite Graphic and Web Design Tutorials
The new website at http://www.tutorialism.com is the first social bookmarking service for web design and graphic design tutorials. It enables users to submit online tutorials and articles they like and vote for them or interact with other members of the design community. [PRWEB Jul 13, 2006]
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Link Harvester
Find all your inbound links (via the Yahoo API) with this free tool. Search an entire domain, or a particular URI. Handy links to whois, Internet Archive, and Google cache from each discovery. Includes source code so anyone can mirror the service.
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Free graphic and web templates
Free graphic and web templates. graphics:

free web templates
free web buttons
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Computers & Internet:Graphic Design:Applications:Adobe:PhotoDeluxe & Photoshop
Search in Computers & Internet:Graphic Design:Applications:Adobe:PhotoDeluxe & Photoshop
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Orcas Designer for Avalon Totally Rocks!!
Now that I got the mess working, I must say that the Orcas Designer from Avalon totally utterly rocks!!
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Holiday & misc links 060807
Generator.x has been on extended (and unannounced) one-month holiday, but now summer is ending and blogging will slowly resume. To warm up, here are a few random links that have accumulated:AOL reSearch has just managed to release a substantial data set containing 20 million search queries from over 650 000 users. What was probably an [...]
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Professional testing = Applied epistemology

I am getting some acquaintance with the trade of professional testing; it is just amazing how far were my previous testing notions from the state of the art in such a profession.

Again, pillars from that trade like Glenford J. Myers and Cem Kaner help me to open my eyes.

For instance, in Lessons Learned in Software Testing by Cem Kaner, James Bach, Bret Pettichord, they said testing is applied epistemology; that is a very intense, deep in meaning and very compelling statement.

Back to the Opening New Windows Issue?
Open New Windows for PDF and other Non-Web Documents is Jakob Nielsen's latest Alertbox article, dated August 29, 2005. Although he'd previously stated not to force links to open new windows, he now feels that you should indeed set links to open in new windows for PDF and other non-Web documents. Even after reading this new article, I still feel strongly about considering the website's target audience, letting the user choose, and avoiding accessibility problems. Today's post goes into why I feel that way and even includes an informal test to check out Nielsen's latest recommendation for yourself. (1195 words, 9 links)
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How to make client-side image maps accessible.
Although client-side images are preferred over server-side image maps - as equivelent text can be provided for each image map 'hot-spot' - server-side image maps are sometimes necessary, e.g. when the active regions of a client-side image map cannot be easily defined using an available geographic shape. In such cases the answer is to provide redundant text links relating to each link provided by the server side image map.The following markup example is typical of the code used to reference a server side image map.

The web pages accessed by the clicking the mage map in the above example would completely hidden to someone using a screen reader or a text-only web browser, as there is no alternative way of accessing the links provided.An example of the server side image with alt attribute added and an alternative set of links to the same content:

Alternative text links are provided at the foot of the page.

You then make the following links available at the foot of the page,

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Search engine insiders talk about links
On a recent search engine conference, Tim Mayer from Yahoo, Matt Cutts from Google and Kaushal Kurapti from Ask Jeeves revealed information on how these three search engines analyze links to determine the ranking of web pages in a public discussion.
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Israel, Lebanon trade attacks
MSNBC Jul 16 2006 6:27PM GMT
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Israel, Hezbollah trade attacks
MSNBC Jul 16 2006 11:41PM GMT
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Helping Those Impacted by Hurricane Katrina
Like many of us, I've been glued to the TV watching the latest news on Hurricane Katrina. The devastation is heart-wrenching. There's news all over the Web, of course, about what's going on, including weblogs popping up. Today's post includes a selection of helpful links of how to help and how to follow the coverage of this horrendous disaster. (314 words, 12 links)
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