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• Web Marketing and SEO Services
• Corporate Communication Services

• Web Design Client Survey (Word Document)
  

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Web Design

• 20 Rules Of Smart And Successful Web-development - Vitaly Friedman discusses what he's learnt over the last 12 months about being a successful blogging web designer.
• 24 ways to impress your friends before Christmas - Day 1: Impress your friends with your 1337 Ajax sk1llz
• 4096 Color Wheel - Useful web-smart colour wheel
• A List Apart - Excellent collection of web design and CSS related articles
• A Word Wrapped in Light - The anatomy of an Icon
• Adam Polselli's 2005 Color Forecast - This link has been sitting around in my bookmarks for far too long and I decided it was time to get an airing.
• Blue Flavor - Another new "supergroup" design team on the block.
• COLOURlovers - Colour palette inspiration.
• Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters - Thanks to Pete for pointing out this interesting caching tutorial
• Color scheme - Excellent colour scheme picker from pixy
• ColorMatch 5K - Handy colour picker
• Comment Design Showcase - Examples of blog comment deasing from around the web
• Cost-Effective Website Acceleration - Really nice article about speeding up your site and reducing bandwidth. I really wish my hosts would read part 3 and start compressing files. However they seem to prefer charging me a fortune for bandwidth instead.
• Creating Structured Tables - Nice article on table structure
• Creativity techniques and creative tools for problem solving - Including things such as 6 hat thinking and critical path diagrams.
• Critiquing - Nice article from Jason on giving and receiving critiques.
• Databases Behind Shops - Nice intro to databases from another Brighton resident
• Design In-Flight - A new pdf web design magazine is born. Get it now before it sells out!
• Design and the Divine Proportion - Really interesting and well written article about using the science of design rather than just operating on instinct.
• Digital Web Magazine - Sporting a loverly new design thatnks to Dider
• Evolt - Helpful site and mailing list
• Faux Real - Finding design inspiration off-line.
• Five simple steps to better typography - Part 3
• Five simple steps to better typography - Part 4
• Five simple steps to better typography - Part 5
• Get the Look - If his 2005 colour forecast wasn't enough, Adam Polselli teaches us how to achieve 5 common design looks.
• HOW TO: Embedded Google Maps
• HTTP 101 - How HTTP really works
• How to Build a Professional Database-Driven Website - A One Day Workshop by Carson Workshops, focusing on PHP, Apache and MySQL development
• IE Tab - Run IE embedded in Firefox for testing or to open IE only pages. Very cool.
• Introduction to DHTML - Learn about DHTML
• Introduction to DOM - Useful introduction to DOM scripting
• Introduction to Events - Learn about Javascript events
• Net Diver - Links to great looking sites
• One PNG, two browsers, no hacks - Not tried this, but looks interesting.
• Opensource CMS: Try Before You Install - Fancy trying out Textpattern or Wordpress before you install them on your server. How about Drupal, PHP-Nuke, Zen Cart or dotProject? Well you can try them all out and more over at Opensource CMS.
• Ruby-Doc.org - Documenting the Ruby Language
• Separating behavior and structure - The right way to do Javascript.
• SiteVista - Looks like an interesting project. I really like the full page capture option. If it had VNC, it'd definitely give Browsercam a run for it's money.
• Sizing Up the Browsers - Browser viewport dimensions. Get them while you still can.
• SkillSwap - Bringing free web design to Brighton
• That Wicked Worn Look - What a great series of articles. Be sure to check out all the guest contributors in part four. Superb.
• The Anatomy of Web Fonts
• The Big Web Design Details List - Keith provides us with an excellent pre-launch site checklist.
• The Designer Is Dead, Long Live The Designer! - Controversial and thought provoking article about the importance of aesthetics in web design by Didier Hilhorst
• The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web - a practical guide to web typography from Clearleft's own Richard Rutter
• The Principles of Design - Some design basics
• TypeWorks - So TypeWorks has finally launched and from the brief glimpses I've seen of it, it looks very promising. Now if only I can find a spare 5 minutes top have a play.
• Typographic tours of London - Something for Joe Clark, next time he visits London.
• Typography for Headlines - Examples of headline typography from around the web
• Value Centered Design - Design is about creating value. I couldn't agree more.
• W3C DOM - Introduction - Quick Introduction to the DOM
• Web Color Schemes - Color schemes taken from a variety of websites, including my own SkillSwap project.
• Web Developer's Handbook - Big list of web dev links.
• Web Patterns - Coming Soon
• Web design from Scratch - 'a practical training course in web design for everyone interested in creating effective web pages'. A lot of thought was put into the content of this site, and while I don't agree with everything it says, most of it is on the money.
• Web development mistakes - Extensive list of common coding mistakes.
• WebPatterns - Design patterns for the web
• Why Do We Love Rounded Corners?
• Windows font survey results - The most common fonts installed on Windows
• XAML: An insiders look out - A quick introduction to XAML
• XHTML Character Entity Reference - Does exactly what it says on the tin
• Your Total Site - Usability, IA, Visual Design & Accessibility information for web developers
• design PRINCIPLES - Great looking aggregation of all the best links
• htaccess Cheatsheet - I'm sure this will come in useful as I can never remember this stuff off the top of my head
• microformats.org - Show your inner geek by marking up your contact details as a hCard
• podSite - a collection of text files, with links to other text files, and possibly sound files and image files stored, and accessible on an iPod.
• widgEditor - A simple, standards-compliant WYSIWYG HTML editor