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Mid-week Feast of Links
09:13 AM - Aug 13, 2003

The harsh reality is that there are so many good sites, articles, resources, posts out there. I can understand why sideblogs with just links in them are spreading in popularity. At any rate, here are some terrific resources that I’ve been wanting to share:

CSS Inspiration

Resources to inspirational sites done with CSS:

• Category: CSS is Maccaws.org’s listing of inspirational commercial sites based on web standards. You’ll find plenty here using CSS.
• ShowCase at css-discuss.org’s Wiki showcases CSS sites.

Helping Your Website

• Help the Googlebot understand your web site via Scribbling.net.
• Nine things you can do to make your web site better via Scribbling.net.

More on URLs

• How to recognize a Weblog tool by its permalinks by Matthew Thomas.
• Retooling the URL: The Steps is a helpful post by John Engler explaining his thoughts behind the directory structure and URL approach taken for his weblog. He includes code snippets for mod_rewrite, a little PHP, and Movable Type.
• The Cranky User: Making URLs accessible provides good things to consider when planning your site URLs. By Peter Seebach for IBM developerworks Web Architecture section.

RSS

• Lowering bandwidth usage with TTL in RSS by Neil Turner.
• Lockergnome’s RSS Resource
  [hat tip: Web Voice, by Olivier Travers]
• Optimizing Your Feed, Part I is a new article by Adam Kalsey for Lockergnome.
  [hat tip: Measure Twice, Adam Kalsey]

Weblogs

• Garden Djinn is a new Typepad-based weblog all about gardening. Nicely done.
• magpiebrain by Sam Newman covers code, interesting sites, Movable Type, Java, RSS, and more.
• Metakappa: Blogosphere is a weblog about the philosophy sociology and technology around blogs.
• Movies and More is a weblog by Dan Webster providing news, notes, books, and movie reviews.

Misc.

• Your very own URL shortening service is a freely available cgi script by Mark Paschal.

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