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The value of an affiliate link

In Affiliate Marketing Undervalues the Link at A VC, the question is raised as to the value of an affiliate link. I’ve been an Amazon affiliate since the beginning of time on this blog, and have shared these same thoughts expressed in this post many times. The post is about the book The Happiness Project [...]

Why Can’t Twitter Be More Like Facebook or Linked In?

It can. Are you looking for a way for Twitter to locate mutual friends or people who know people you know? I love this feature on Facebook and often find BlogHers or long-lost classmates based on the application’s suggestions as to people I may know because they know people I know. People who know people. [...]

Review: Fancy Form Design

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(rating: 5 stars)

Fancy Form Design by Jina Bolton, Tim Connell and Derek Featherstone is from Sitepoint Book (2009). This is really an excellent little book. It gives you tips on planning and designing a form that is both attractive and usable. It provides information on structuring the form using standards-based [...]

A trial of the Zemanta Firefox add-on

I gave the Zemanta add-on for Firefox a trial run in Wordpress. Download it from Mozilla.
Here’s the background. Zemanta promises to make blogging easier for you by finding you relevant images, links or tags as you type a blog post or an email. (It works in Firefox and Gmail.)
That sounds appealing, especially for writing posts [...]

Codeburner Add-on for Firefox

You now have access to all the Sitepoint References for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript available in Firefox as an add-on. You can download the  Codeburner add-on free from Sitepoint.
The references provide syntax information, browser compatibility charts and sample code for HTML and CSS.
The new add-on was just released. For a limited time, you can get [...]

Summary of eHow Articles for January

A list of the thrilling and educational how to articles I wrote at eHow this month. And tulips! More . . .

Red Bubble: Share or Sell Your Illustrations or Photos

I posted at BlogHer today about Red Bubble. This is a site similar to Photrade–which I wrote about here in Photrade’s all  new–a second look. Red Bubble is similar to a site called Zazzle, which I’ve not looked at yet, but will sometime soon.

CSS Super Scrub

CSS Super Scrub says it will
significantly reduce the size and complexity of your CSS by programmatically stripping unneeded content, stripping redundant calls, and intelligently grouping the remaining element names.
I gave it a try with the style sheet for this site. With just the option Indent CSS selected, it saved 4.7% on the Web Teacher style [...]

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The Dreamweaver CS4 Application Bar

In Dreamweaver CS4, there’s a new item called Application Bar. It behaves differently in Windows and Mac. This is what it looks like on a Mac.

It’s placed across the top. It contains a workspace switcher, menus (Windows only), and other application controls. On the Mac you can show or hide it using the Window menu. [...]