March Supadupa Links
Welcome to March 2009's supadupa links. We have brought together a collection of links that we feel are useful in some form or fashion to the web design and development community.
5 Ways to Instantly Write Better CSS
nettus+ have put together a great a article about how to improve your CSS organisation by simply defining some easy to follow coding rules.
Read 5 Ways to Instantly Write Better CSS
Texter: Text substitution app
Do you find yourself typing the same code lines over and over again? Texter can help speed up code development by storing small abbreviations for commonly used code.
Quick Usability Checklist
Usability of a website is extremely important. Uxbooth have put together a short checklist of the most important stuff to make sure your website has.
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Book: Don't Make Me Think
If you build, design, run, market, advertise a website, GET THIS BOOK! It's a short read but provides some amazing useful information about creating sites that are more usable and just work better.
Read more about Don't Make Me Think
iconPot: Royalty Free Icons for Everyone
iconPot have provided a number of sets of icons free for download and use for personal and commercial use. If you need some quick icons, this is a must check out.
Pattern Tap: Design Inspiration
Pattern Tap provides a great resource for seeing how other websites 404 pages, borders, breadcrumbs, calendars, buttons, etc are designed. A great place if you are looking for inspiration.
snipt: Forget forgetting code
Have you ever found yourself trying to remember how to set privleges on a MySQL database or validate an email address in PHP? If so, check out snipt. Coders from the everywhere have submitted snippets of code that are used regularly for other coders to reference.
snipplr: forget forgetting code....again
Alot like snipt (see abov) but has a few other categories.
Kolorgenerator: Colour selection tool
If you ever needed to find out what the exact hex colour was for anything on your computer quickly and easily without opening your imaging software, this tool can do it. There are alot of other ones out there, but I have found that Kolorgenerator has the best features you need to get any colour quick.
Akismet: Good-bye website spam
It's simple, get rid of spam on your blog/website.
Good Call-to-Action Buttons
Another great usability article posted on UXbooth about creating your call-to-action buttons easy to understand so the user knows what the click.
Read Good Call-to-Action Buttons
Avoiding the R word: Redesign
David Hamill, a UK based usability specialist, has writen and interesting article about website redesigns and how to avoid them.
the ultimate webdesign usability checklist
This is an extremely long list of usability items to consider when designing and developing a website.
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