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Help people discover more of your web pages.

Google Sitemaps is an easy way for you to help improve your coverage in the Google index. It’s a collaborative crawling system that enables you to communicate directly with Google to keep us informed of all your web pages, and when you make changes to these pages.

With Google Sitemaps you get:

* Better crawl coverage to help people find more of your web pages
* Fresher search results
* A smarter crawl because you can provide specific information about all your web pages, such as when a page was last modified or how frequently a page changes

Google Sitemaps

If you’re not a designer, and you’re creating a logo - the best approach is to keep it super simple.

I would add: keep it super simple, always.

Some advice on logo design for non-designers (FrogBlog)

Stylish, smooth, slick, elegant, pastel colors, elegant typography, heavy graphics, Macromedia Flash
Passing Notes

f you are a web designer or front-end developer, you are probably familiar with how different browsers or user agents displays your code in their own way. Picture this: You are pushing pixels and refining your designs so it fits perfect in your Firefox browser, but when presenting your design to the client in Internet Explorer, your pages might brake completely. Bye bye contract. Designing with CSS is no exception. On the contrary – table based layout seems to be more cross-browser consistent than CSS positioning. This probably one of the reasons why several big names still uses tables in their web design layouts.

No More CSS Hacks | Articles | Stylegala

1500 free fonts to be downloaded.

EKNP Free Fonts

Have you ever wanted to make a resizable box with rounded (or any shape) corners, custom borders, and a transparent shadow? Did you also want to do that without cluttering your markup with a bunch of non-semantic div elements? Now you can.

Transparent custom corners and borders | 456 Berea Street

Daily Type is a creative project run by five russian type designers.
Day by day, they create original typefaces and post their results along with routine.

idea by Yury Ostromentsky & Dasha Yarzhambek

Daily Type

XHTML2 is the next version of the XHTML family, and is going to last call Real Soon Now. This presentation gives an overview of what XHTML2 is trying to achieve.

XHTML2 is the next iteration in the HTML family.

XHTML1 addressed the problems of turning HTML into an XML application.

XHTML2 addresses the remaining identified problems in HTML4/XHTML1

XHTML2: Accessible, Usable, Device Independent and Semantic

Create mini tabs using standard and compatible CSS and HTML

With the helpful concepts explained on Eric Meyer’s article, a while ago I turned to inline one of the nicest horizontal menus in its simplicity: the famous Mini Tabs by Dan Cederholm. I thought I’d share here the results.

Inline Mini Tabs

What is a Landing Page?

A landing page is the page visitors arrive at after clicking on your promotional creative.

Your landing page has to convince the visitor to stay and (depending on your goal):

* Fill out a form (but people hate filling out forms)
* Provide personal details (but people hate getting spammed)
* Buy something (but people hate being scammed)
* Read a lot of information (but people really hate reading)

As you can see, there are some major obstacles to getting visitors to do what you want on your landing page. You have to convince people to do things they hate.

Digital Web Magazine - 11 Ways to Improve Landing Pages