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Thoughts and commentary about web design plus links to helpful resources including fonts, plugins, templates, stock photos, software, scripts, tutorials, and other useful tools for webmasters!

Sunday, January 07, 2007

Build a Custom Amazon.com Associate Store

Amazon.com offers an amazing affiliate program where you earn up to 10% for every sale generated from your website/blog. They take care of order processing, collecting the money, and shipping the product to the customer.

The problem is it can take a lot of time and programming expertise to create a complete store from which to begin selling. That’s why Associate-O-Matic was created.

Sunday, December 31, 2006

The Best Web Design Examples on the Internet, Web Design Articles, and Web Design Resources

The Best Designs recognizes web sites that stand out among the rest and that are designed with the audience in mind. Instead of featuring CSS-only or Flash-only sites, TBD recognizes both. Either method works well as long as the site is designed for its audience and is the best of its class. 

Thursday, December 28, 2006

Developing With Web Standards

This document by Roger Johansson explains how and why using web standards will let you build websites in a way that saves time and money for the developer and provides a better experience for the visitor. Also discussed are other methods, guidelines and best practices that will help produce high-quality websites that are accessible to as many as possible.

Saturday, December 23, 2006

Cheesecake Photoblog

Cheesecake Photoblog is a photoblog application written using PHP and MySQL and the cakePHP framework, It has a clean MVC code architecture. The URLs generated are clean and Search Engine Friendly. The comment system has SPAM protection via Akismet as well as a ‘Black List’. Cheesecake is easily theme-able and extensible using add-ons. It also features tagging, RSS feeds, multiple size resizing of images. Ability to schedule future posts or post using EXIF date is also there. 

Saturday, December 02, 2006

FireFactory from Coffee Cup Software Provides Search Engine Optimization and Website Optimization

FireFactor checks over 90 factors and scores your Website based on what search engines and visitors see on your pages. Your Website Report will show you what you don’t have, what you have too much of, or what is not working for search engines. Your custom report is 100+ pages and gives you advice on fixing these things to get better search engine rank.