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[Friday Links] The Help Edition

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Quite a few links this week with help as the main theme. At our Some Assembly Required workshop this week we presented how we can help to the university community, ironically the help theme carried over to the online world.
All great links but as always the last one is most inspiring. Enjoy.

Yahoo!’s Latest Performance [...]

[Friday Links] The PI Day Edition

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Happy PI day everyone. Trying something new this week, we added a newsletter update. If you would like to get updates about all the posts including the Friday Links via email just enter your email into the newsletter signup at the bottom of the post. Otherwise RSS works great too.
Without further delay here are this [...]

[Friday Links] The Snow Day Edition

Friday, March 7th, 2008

With a nice break in the middle of the week to enjoy the snow, a nice list of links to keep up the momentum, enjoy the snow below.

Video: Twitter in Plain English
Virtual Hosting Blog » Top 50 Guides for Beginning Web Developers
Google Calendar Sync
Web 2.0 Is the Future of Education (Techlearning [...]

[Friday Links] The Resource Edition

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Following this weeks web workshop a large list of recourses and tools.

Extensible CSS Interface I: The Foundation
A Guide to Web Typography
Web Design References: Accessibility
9 Signs You Shouldn’t Hire THAT Web Guy | CSS Zone
All the News a Web Worker Needs
Personas and the Role of Design Documentation
Fonts on the [...]

[Friday Links] The Education Edition

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Its crazy how fast a week can fly by. Keeping with the theme of education here is a bunch of links related to learning the art of web design.

Web Accessibility: Configuring links in Screen readers
Social Media Will Change Your Business
A Typical HTML Page
Viral Marketing at the Grass Roots Level
50 Questions [...]

[Friday Links] The Late Edition

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Better late than never.

The Problem with Social Media Marketing
What Is Your Mental Model? - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
11 Things To Know About Semantic Web - ReadWriteWeb
ATRC Web Accessibility Checker
Webstock 2008: Good Design Ain’t Easy
Productivity: 8 Ways to Save Time for Excessive Social Media Overuse
Assistive [...]

[Friday Links] The Teamwork Edition

Friday, February 8th, 2008

It has been a week of teamwork, partnerships and groups. Short and precise list this week dedicated to design, development and standards.

It’s all about teamwork
The Immutable Laws of Web Design and Development
Juicy Writing: 5 Ways to Glue Readers to the Page
Understanding Web Semantics
Aarron Walter on Findability, SEO, and Web Standards (An Event Apart)
Helping others [...]

[Friday Links] The Practical Edition

Friday, February 1st, 2008

So we made it a month, its great to see the readership grow. This week has been one of getting things done and blog neglection. The articles of the week reflect the same mentality in the blogosphere (lolz at the busswords).

From Web Standards Diva to Web Standards Devo
JavaScript-Based Injection Attacks
10 Principles Of Effective [...]

[Friday Links] The Short Week Edition

Friday, January 25th, 2008

9 Benefits of Twitter for Bloggers
20 Foods To Snack On For Enhanced Productivity
Amazon’s obsession with customers pays off
21 Factors to Consider Before a Redesign
Evolution of a Header
HTML 5 differences from HTML 4
The Only Way For Journalists To Understand The Web Is To Use It
12 Steps to Creating [...]

[Friday Links] The Busy Week Edition

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Fluid: Wrap your favorite web apps in their own browser
Yahoo! implements OpenID
Evolve Your User Interface To Educate Your Users
The iGoogle Themes API
Is experience better than talent?
White paper - distributed influence: quantifying the impact of social media
Web page production with xHTML and CSS
Hard and soft deadlines, and the Martini Method
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