Weekly links - Knol, e-books, subversion and rockstars!
In absence of the del.icio.us plugin I used to use to present the links (its unchangable default of daily posting was a bit much) here are my links for this week.
SEO
The SEO world has been filled with talk of googles wikipedia beater Knol this week, not sure about it myself, I don’t think we need an app like this.
Randfish alerted subscribers to an excellent tool for viewing websites the way the spiders do - seo-browser.
Design
Sitepoint have a detailed article on typography, Web Designer Wall present a small and focused article on emphasizing certain text using contrast and flow.
Web designer wall present some inspiration in their Best of CSS 2007 article.
Save the pixel is a new e-book from webdesign from scratch. Its £15 and is aimed at people wanting ‘to create simple, easy-to-use, and appealing web sites that really work. The link also links to several older e-books, that just cost a pound or so.
Coding
Vitamin explain how to create sexy stylesheets - some great advanced stuff on creating the best CSS code, and laying it out in a way thats easy to update.
Its been covered before but Sitepoint’s PHP Pagination article presents an alternative viewpoint.
Beanstalk is a hosted subversion environment ‘making it easy for anyone to setup, browse, track, and manage Subversion repositories’ - its free and allows for limited space with 2 users. Ideal if your working on on app with a friend.
Ext JS 2.0 is yet another Javascript library, it looks very complete and professional though, so worth a little look.
Other
How to be a rockstar freelancer is an ebook on becoming a freelancer from freelancing blog freelanceswitch. Looks pretty comprehensive and well designed. Its £29.00 though, a little steep perhaps. I’m more interested in How to be a rockstar wordpress, which should be released soon. You can sign up to a release date mail list with discount voucher for that book on the same link.
Hi Mark. Thanks for mentioning “Save the Pixel”. Web marketing guru Howie Jacobson (author of “AdWords for Dummies”) recently described the book as…
“Save the Pixel is the best book on web design and usability I’ve ever read, and one of the best books on internet marketing in general. If you’re sending traffic to your web site via Google AdWords and you haven’t discovered the strategies and tactics in Save the Pixel, I guarantee you’re throwing away money.
“It’s not just information, but a systematic way of designing a site for your customers rather than your web designer’s online portfolio. Save the Pixel is the one book I insist my clients read before I’ll roll out an AdWords campaign for them.”
Fab stuff! Please note, you can also earn 50% commission referring people to the site via ClickBank.
Best wishes,
Ben Hunt