Archives for January, 2006

SEO Makes Me Feel Dirty

Posted by Scott on Friday, January 27, 2006 at 12:03 pm. 0 Comments.

Today at work they're having me do SEO for a site. I'm crawling their google keywords, signing up for link exchanges, and submitting for every ...

Filed under dirty, keywords, links, optimization, search, seo.

An Event Apart: Seattle

Posted by Scott on Thursday, January 26, 2006 at 5:36 pm. 0 Comments.

Sweet! An Event Apart (the web seminar run by Zeldman and Meyer) is coming to Seattle! "I'm going. That's all there is to it. I'm fucking ...

Filed under aneventapart, conferences, ericmeyer, jeffreyzeldman, pulpfiction, seattle.

How to Search for This and Not That Using TextWrangler

Posted by Scott on Friday, January 6, 2006 at 4:57 pm. 0 Comments.

I've been doing a ton of search-and-replace operations at my job lately, and one of the worst ones I did had to do with searching ...

Filed under boolian, computers, grep, howto, regex, search, textwrangler.

Recent Links

XScreenSaver
A collection of free screensavers for linux and mac computers, including the best Matrix-code screensaver made.
Fliqlo
Free flip-clock style screensaver for Mac and Windows.
HTML 5 Reference: A web developer's guide to HTML 5
"This document illustrates how to write HTML 5 documents, focussing on simplicity and practical applications for beginners while also providing in depth information for more advanced web developers."
12 common problems with HTML 5
The headline is somewhat misleading this is more of a FAQ about HTML 5 and has some great information.
HTML 5 structure—HTML 4 and XHTML 1 to HTML 5
Beautiful introduction to converting an HTML or XHTML page into HTML 5, and the new elements that are available to you.
The League of Moveable Type: A collection of open-source fonts
"We're done with the tired old fontstacks of yesteryear. Enough with the limitations of the web, we won't have it. It's time to raise our standards. Here, you'll find only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts."
Video: Jon Stewart Tries Chatroulette, Runs Into Brian Williams, Katie Couric, Keith Olbermann
"An online service called Chatroulette has caught the attention of Daily Show host Jon Stewart, who took a spin on the site for a segment on Thursday's program."
Bulletproof @font-face Generator
A nice generator to automatically create .eot, .woff, and .svg versions of any TTF or OTF font you upload for @font-face usage.
“Grayscaling” in non-IE browsers
This is pretty awesome, and I almost got it to work on my site, but it only works on local images, and I was trying to grayscale some photos from Flickr. Work a bookmark, though.
"Mad Libs" Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40%
"Though it asked people the same questions found in typical sign-up forms, the Huffduffer registration form did so in a narrative format. It presented input fields to people as blanks within sentences"

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