I just discovered a way to automatically shorten urls posted to Twitter: public static string MakeTinyUrl(string url) { try { if (url.Length <= 30) { return url;
The year 2009 promises to bring us some excellent, and even groundbreaking, new reads. Listed below are 30 web design related books from some of the brightest designers and developers in the industry, that will likely be influential must-reads.
From Andrew Houle's blog: This post dissects 4 principles of web design that help you create cleaner, more aesthetically pleasing sites. Contrast Repetition Alignment Proximity It’s unbelievable how much better your designs will become when you take into consideration these four basic principles. There are always more things to consider, but a foundation of contrast, repetition, alignment and
Jordan posted a very quick and dirty list meant for people wanting to find out the absolute bare bones of SEO.Search Engine Optimization is the art of getting your site positioned as close to the top of the front page as possible. Here are the 8 items that Jordan considers most important: HTML Document Title HTML Document name Incoming links Page content Sitemaps Outgoing links Heading (H1,H2,