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Resources: CSS Frameworks, PSD to HTML, Text Editors and IDEs

The Programmers and Web Designers resource pages have been updated with these topics: Photoshop PSD to HTML, Hosted Forms, CSS Frameworks, and Text Editors and IDEs. Please check them out. If you find... 
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Free Google AdWords Campaigns for Non-Profits

“Google Grants is a unique in-kind donation program awarding free AdWords advertising to select charitable organizations. We support organizations sharing our philosophy of community service to help... 
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How to Find the Perfect Color and Create a Color Palette

“No single visual element has more effect on a viewer than color. Color gets attention, sets a mood, sends a message. But what colors are the right ones? The key is that color is relational. Colors... 
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6 Tips for Better Branding with Avatars

“We’re living in a social media world, and, like it or not, our avatar is often the first impression others get about us as we interact virtually on social networks, blogs, microblogs and other... 
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LA Weighs Replacing Software with Google

“Frustrated by a slow and antiquated computer system, the city of Los Angeles is weighing a plan to replace its e-mail and records retention software with a service provided by Google, a move that... 
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Apollo 11 40th Anniversary

In case you’re somewhere on the planet without the internet, today is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission that landed men on the moon on July 20, 1969. NASA has a commemorative site with... 
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Xobni Organizes Your Outlook Email

As a web designer and coder, I collect tons of emails and attachments from clients that have to be carefully tracked and easily found. And many projects have three, four, or more people attached. Often... 
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The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online

“Many of us in this room have had our lives transformed by technology. Some of us have grown up with tech while others have embraced it as adults. Many of us have become enamored with tech and its... 
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Tips for Sorting Through the Social Networks

“Bonnie Smalley has Internet bragging rights: She has been blocked by Twitter for hand-typing too many tweets in an hour. They thought she was a computer program made to spew spam. Ms. Smalley, it... 
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Cool Search Engines That Are Not Google But Still Useful

“How do you find a new search engine if all you know is Google? Typing “search engine” into the usual box might lead you to Microsoft’s newly launched Bing, the combined search at Dogpile,... 
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UI Pattern Documentation Review

“To date, the most common approach to propagating a single user experience standard is the development of UI guidelines and principles documentation within an organization. Development teams —... 
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Typography for Lawyers

“Even though the legal profession depends heavily on writing, legal typography is often poor. Some blame lies with the strict typographic constraints that control certain legal documents (e.g. court... 
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Need Something? Talk To My Right Ear

We humans prefer to be addressed in our right ear and are more likely to perform a task when we receive the request in our right ear rather than our left. In a series of three studies, looking at ear preference... 
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(Mostly) Free Website Monitoring Tools

Recently came across two articles about free website monitoring tools, Top 10 Free Website Uptime Monitoring Services, from Design Live, and 12 Excellent Free Tools for Monitoring Your Sites Uptime, from... 
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Outlook is Broken, Let’s Fix It

“Microsoft have confirmed they plan on using the Word rendering engine to display HTML emails in Outlook 2010. This means for the next 5 years your email designs will need tables for layout, have... 
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View Your Web Pages in Multiple Versions of Internet Explorer Browsers

“How many times have you had to debug your web pages on virtual or multiple machines running different versions of Internet Explorer? Or had to wait for a slow web service to return renderings of... 
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De-friending Professional Contacts on Facebook

“I recently restricted my Facebook account to close friends and family and “de-friended” 205 people. Click after click banished former and current managers, co-workers and other professional... 
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Top 10 Interaction Design Articles?

IxDA, an online group of interaction designers, has an interesting thread, Top 10 Must Read Artcles, that lists articles and books worth a read. For example, The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the... 
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Got an unusual name? Facebook may think it’s fake

“ Alicia Istanbul woke up one recent Wednesday to find herself locked out of the Facebook account she opened in 2007, one Facebook suddenly deemed fake. The stay-at-home mom was cut off not only... 
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How to Develop a Facebook Page that Attracts Millions of Fans

“There are numerous ways for brands to leverage Facebook but the overall branded experience is becoming increasingly integrated into a single offering as the new Pages product highlights. So what... 
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