Here's my brief run through blog posts that caught my attention in April (this entry also covers March as I didn't have time to write a round-up last month).
They cover the weird and wacky world of SEO and the latest news from the CSS3, PHP and JavaScript fronts.
I hope you enjoy these items and find them educational.
30 SEO Problems & the Tools to Solve Them
Rand Fishkin lists a couple of dozen valuable tools that he recommends. No doubt you'll already be using many of these but there's bound to be some new applications that you've never come across before.
Web Spam: The Definitive Guide
SEO is very much about trial and error and along the way you'll bound to make mistakes. David Harry details some spam techniques that you may accidentally have used (and been penalised for!).
CSS3 Transitions – Are We There Yet?
A thorough explanation of CSS transitions from Samuli Hakoniem, but as far as I'm concerned this is what JavaScript is there for!
cssSandpaper – a CSS3 JavaScript Library
Zoltan “Du Lac” Hawryluk introduces his cssSandpaper project to the world. If you are interested in CSS transforms, opacity, box shadows and gradients but are worried about their lack of cross-browser support then try this script out.
Accomplishing Common Tasks Using MooTools, jQuery, and Dojo
A brief side-by-side examination of MooTools, jQuery and Dojo.
15 Time-Saving JavaScript Tools to Speed Up Development
I bookmarked this post because it linked to a couple of resources such as GotAPI and Damnit that are new to me.
Chris Coyier gives a very thorough introduction to these useful CSS features.
Where to Submit Your Web Design and Development News
A mega list of sites to submit your worthy web design related blog posts to.
How Accessible is Your Website? 8 Tools to Analyze Your Website’s Level of Accessibility
You'll bound to find some useful applications here to assist your accessible discipline.
Calculating Color Contrast for Legible Text
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Colourlovers mixes PHP, CSS and the W3C
How to Override PHP Configuration Options
A useful article to bookmark if you need to configure your PHP installation on your server.
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