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.