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2008-07-08

GNU Wget 1.11.3 Manual

http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html

.htaccess tips and tricks

"What are .htaccess files anyway?
Simply put, they are invisible plain text files where one can store server directives. Server directives are anything you might put in an Apache config file (httpd.conf) or even a php.ini**, but unlike those "master" directive files, these .htaccess directives apply only to the folder in which the .htaccess file resides, and all the folders inside. "

http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess.php

Filter My RSS

"FilterMyRSS is a simple feed filter to sort out the unwanted information from an XML or RSS feed and provide only the information which is relevant to you."

http://www.filtermyrss.com/

Dapper The Data Mapper

"Easily provide new means for people to access your content (such as RSS). You can use Dapper to create feeds, widgets, and APIs with your content and links."

http://www.dapper.net/

CSS Hacks

"Dealing with browser inconsistencies often makes up a majority of the work for a web designer. Sometimes there is no reasonable way to accomplish a desired layout in all major web browsers without the use of some special exception rules for certain layout engines. Hacks necessarily lead to potential complications and should be avoided whenever possible, but when the circumstances require hacks to be used, it's best to know what your options are and weigh the consequences appropriately. The purpose of this article is to describe some of the CSS hacks, also called CSS filters, with the least significant potential consequences."

http://www.webdevout.net/css-hacks

Use Old Words When Writing for Findability

"Familiar words spring to mind when users create their search queries. If your writing favors made-up terms over legacy words, users won't find your site."

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/search-keywords.html

Full Web Building Tutorials

"At W3Schools you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP."

http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp

.htaccess Cheatsheet

http://www.thejackol.com/htaccess-cheatsheet/

.htaccess Password Generator

http://www.thejackol.com/scripts/htpasswdgen.php

BCC. Please

"When you send an email to somebody using the BCC field, none of the other recipients know who else received it. The idea is that everybody on the list isn't privy to the email address of everybody else on the list."

http://bccplease.com/

Thanks. No.

"You’re not a bad person, and no one hates you, but it would be valuable to learn the very personal preferences of your friends, family members, and co-workers before including them in unrequested email or choosing to expose their private address to people they don’t know."

http://www.thanksno.com/

7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid!

"Many things come together to form trust. Starting from the design of the logo to the text and what it reads, all the way to the amount of white space around all the elements.

Professionally designed work looks solid, the same holds true with the written word. Typos and grammatical errors express a disregard for the user and effects the image of your company being able to deliver good service. Some of these practices may be obvious, but worthy of review."

http://www.10e20.com/blog/2008/01/11/essential-web-design-principles-to-earn-trust/

Domize - Domain Name Search

https://domize.com/

Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines

http://www.usability.gov/pdfs/guidelines.html

List of nifty tools for drawing diagrams, charts and flow-charts

"Developing web-sites over the last few years, I’ve been stumbling over the same problem over and over again: how can I visualize my idea easily and quickly? Since human being is used to visualize things, trying to understand the idea behind them, recently I’ve spent hours googling for useful tools and tutorials which would help me to create images – mostly, diagrams, charts, chart-flows etc. to visualize my personal ideas to my potential clients.

The results of my search were initially published in one of the most popular German Web-Magazines Dr. Web in German; however, I’d like to present them to the even broader audience – and in English."

http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/nifty-tools-and-tutorials-for-creating-diagrams-charts-and-chart-flows

Gravatar

"A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs?"

http://en.gravatar.com/