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John Pozadzides is a founder of the Web Design Group. He maintains a daily personal blog at OneMansBlog.com.

Grade Your Website: 31 Free Online Tests

Rich McIver clued me in to this great article at Aviva Directory:
If someone asked you at what grade level your site’s content was written, could you tell them? What about whether it was fully compatible with every major browser? How many seconds it took to load? Can you confidently state that there are no broken […]

Report: There Are Now Over 70 Million Blogs

Courtesy of Word of Mouth Marketing Association:
Blogospheric Expansion Continues
Over 70 million blogs are being tracked by Technorati, and new blog posts are being added at a rate of 1.5 million per day (17 blog posts per second), according to the most recent State of the Blogosphere report from David Sifry. According to Sifry, 120,000 new […]

Rules for High Performance Web Sites

This post courtesy of Rich Skrenta:
Steve Souders of Yahoo’s “Exceptional Performance Team” gave an insanely great presentation at Web 2.0 about optimizing website performance by focusing on front end issues. Unfortunately I didn’t get to see it in person but the Web 2.0 talks have just been put up and the ppt is fascinating and […]

Douglas Crockford Lecture: The JavaScript Programming Language

The following 2 hours worth of videos make up a lecture by Douglass Crockford giving an overview of just about everything you ever wanted to know about the JavaScript programming language.
The accompanying slides can also be found here. Enjoy!

Punish Spammers by Installing a HoneyPot

Everyone hates spam, but what are you doing to help put an end to it? Well, now if you own a Web site you can seriously contribute to taking Spam off the streets! Just install a HoneyPot on your server and you’ll be helping to generate data that can actually put some Spammers […]

Free Image Sources for Web Authors

I do quite a bit of blogging and it seems I’m always looking for specific images to compliment the topics of my posts. I often turn to these primary sources:

Stock.XCHNG
yotophoto
Morgue File
Image After
Open Photo

Both of these sites have extensive libraries, good search functions, and offer free images.
If you know of other high-quality resources for free […]

Web Sites As Art

Ok, this one is just for fun. Über Aharef has created a little application that converts any Web page into a colorful little graph.
It is totally useless, yet strangely amusing so obviously that makes it worth a look!
Another interesting thing is he provides the source code and if one were so inclined the […]

SpiffY!Search - Inline Free-Form Yahoo Search

I read little article in Make Magazine and decided to check out SpiffY!Search. It’s a fairly interesting little JavaScript that displays inline search results either from a traditional search form, or by mousing over preselected words.
I’m not certain exactly where I would use it but I’m sure there are good applications out there for […]

How To Look Like A UNIX Guru

There is a good article by Terence Parr that is still pretty fresh, having been updated as recently as August 30, 2006.
UNIX is an extremely popular platform for deploying server software partly because of its security and stability, but also because it has a rich set of command line and scripting tools. Programmers use these […]

Free Site Screenshots From Multiple Browsers

In today’s Web hopefully everyone who is designing a new site tests how it will display in multiple browsers, but how about checking across multiple operating systems and even old Web browsers. If you’ve been wanting to do just this, but don’t exactly have access to a wide variety of platforms then you’ll appreciate […]