Beyond Paper

70 Fresh And Modern Blogger Templates

"First, understand that people talk about you (or not talk about you) because of how it makes them feel, not how it makes you feel."

—Seth’s Blog: Why word of mouth doesn’t happen

The Embargo Breaks Part Deux: Is a Press Release News?

In defense of press releases.  Notice, though, that the author still says that press releases aren’t “news” - they are promotional.

Women Would Sacrifice Almost Anything But Chocolate For Blogging

Results of a study of women bloggers.  Ignore the quasi-sexist title, the study shows useful information about who is blogging and who reads blogs.

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Understanding Model-View-Controller

A great explanation of MVC architecture.

Zebra Striping: Does it Really Help?

A scientific study on the helpfulness of adding alternate stripes of background color to tables. 

My take-away from the post?  Go ahead and zebra stripe. 

Details of button padding in various browsers

Very useful guide to how different browsers and operating systems apply padding to button.

Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides

This post suggests ways to structure your CSS for maximum readability and ease of maintenance.

"Google and the other search engines have started to seriously focus on the issue. In cases where they have good reason to suspect links being bought and sold, both the selling and the buying web sites are usually dropped in rankings or have a penalty which downgrades the ranking. This may mean nothing to the big company that has 1000’s of web sites, but most small companies have one site. To be dropped in the rankings for a domain means, transferring to a new domain, or reworking your links and that can be a long process."

—Should I buy links to my web site?