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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.

Could be dead handy, this.

Doesn't seem to be giving particularly useful results right now. Oh, and it emails the person you're looking for as well, without warning you.

The very existence of the new, updated book hints that usability guidelines evolve over time. In one of the first chapters, Nielsen makes this explicit by revisiting earlier web usability issues to see how much they've improved in seven years. Each

Microsoft had its hand forced this week into unveiling just a little of its arsenal in the war to win the browser battle on the mobile phone.

Web 2.0 applications often have accessibility and usability problems because of the limitations of (X)HTML. The W3C’s standards draft for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) addresses those limitations.

If you do like rants and have an interest in creating websites that work for as many people as possible, you might enjoy this.

"Different ways to clear floats without any extra mark-up." Good reminder.

Surely if you are part of implementing a website or even maintain your own blog, good practice typography should be a part of it?

Nothing new but that's not a criticism; good to have all this in one place!

A gentle introduction to jQuery concepts, allowing you to add interactions and animations to your pages - even if previous attempts at writing JavaScript have left you baffled.

Comments lead into an interesting-ish discussion about scaling problems with RoR.

In order to support 95% of your visitors, you need to design for a maximum size of 776x424px.

This tutorial is an explanation of the techniques involved in creating a fluid flash movies that adapt to browser resolution.

Make pages of feeds

"If the world falls apart then there is no market. And if a much greener substitute is brought out by a competitor, there is a good chance you will lose a lot of business too. Not to mention the risk if Greenpeace attacks you. Many companies have accepted

Whizzy modular office furniture.

Every day at Friends of the Earth Scotland we receive calls asking us about environmentally friendly products: whether it is really worth recycling and how to go about greening the office. Our Online Audit is designed to answer these questions.