Links from 2007

I have done a bit of digging and I have to say the more you look at Mc Donalds, the better it gets.

Exists to help promote social networking, knowledge generation and sharing, co-creation and the harnessing of collective intelligence within organisations and communities.

"Creating a transparent PNG overlay which can be used as a mask / frame around regular JPEG or GIF. This way, a typical CMS installation can be configured so users can upload photos without having to worry about using any graphics program to apply filters

Designed to showcase freelance talent and reward those consultants who have demonstrated that they have added real value to a client’s business.

...what I’m willing to call the final version of my take on the topic of reset styles

"This, almost more than any other item in the web author’s toolbox, seems to be misunderstood and overused." Hear, hear!

In an age of infinite bits, time and attention are the scarce resources. The solution is to constantly manage your bits with the goal of reaching an “empty” state.

A small javascript/flash library to get the best of both worlds - The great upload capabilitys of flash and the accessibility and ease of html/css

ClickHeat is a visual heatmap of clicks on a HTML page, showing hot and cold click zones.

A visual and entertaining example of web2.0 within the corporation

How do your web pages fare in today’s mobile browsers?

The Landmark Trust is a charity founded in 1965 that rescues and restores historic buildings at risk and gives them a new life by offering them for holidays

"In the age of Google, being special increasingly requires standing out from the crowd online. Many people aspire for themselves -- or their offspring -- to command prominent placement in the top few links on search engines or social networking sites' mem

14 rules for faster front end performance

For [non-html] formats, you have to layer accessibility on top, it’s extra.

Since this is a technology blog I want to focus on just a couple of technical areas that I’ve been tracking — templating and layout, and some of the issues we’ve had there.

Stop reading blogs and Digg posts and take a minute to save the world using these ten sites.

Is there a website that lets you input the contents of your cupboard and fridge, then shows you recipies you can make with what you have?

I've been trying to get hold of this album by ex-Sidi Bou Said Claire Lemmon for ages now. I swear it doesn't exist.

"It will save what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame... basically it saves webpages as images." Very good.

Lots and lots of stats.

There are too many ways to reduce water use to reduce to a throw-away top ten. I'd like to maintain this list, so that it hopefully become a definitive water saving guide

The Old Masters of painting spent years of their lives learning about color. Why let all their effort go to waste on the walls of some museum when it could be used to give you a hand with color correction?

Easynews® has been providing netizens with premium, high-quality Usenet access for over 11 years.

The most important things you should keep in mind developing css-based layouts with floats.

We’re in this Together is offering you easy access to products and ideas (we call them ‘Solutions’) that really can reduce your impact on the climate.

This post is supposed to give you an idea, what Microformats actually mean, which advantages they have and how you can use them to enrich your content and make it more visible and understandable for search engines.

Allows you to add a loupe (magnifier) to images on your webpages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean.

Treating your PDF documents in this way will make it easy for people to find the most relevant documents on your site from both your internal search engine and external search engines

"Web pages often contain links like "Click here" or just "here". This document explains why such usage is bad practice, especially for accessibility reasons."

"Conducting effective interviews requires a balance of instinct, insight, and some solid preparation. It also helps if you don't make certain blunders, such as monopolizing the conversation, asking leading questions, or applying too much (or too little) p

Create personalized, annotated, customized maps using Google Maps

The layout model of tables differ from that of block level elements in that they will normally expand beyond their specified width to make their contents fit.

A tool for automating tasks on one or more remote servers. It executes commands in parallel on all targeted machines, and provides a mechanism for rolling back changes across multiple machines.

A quick and dirty set of its most powerful features.

jscsscomp is a PHP script what compress JavaScript and CSS files when they are requested from the server.

Video from Energy Saving Trust.

Every website can have a robots.txt file in a standard location, so we decided to let you tell us about your Sitemap in the robots.txt file. All you have to do is add a line.

The way Google organises knowledge raises fears that in the process understanding will be crushed. Tony Curzon Price identifies a problem and points to a solution.

Possible alternative for SWFObject/UFO. jQuery plugin gets my vote, though.

POSH encapsulates the best practices of using semantic HTML to author web pages. Semantic HTML is the subset of HTML 4.01 (or XHTML 1.0) elements and attributes that are semantic rather than presentational.