Web Design and Web Development Help

This season we have 10 new shades of color that have been chosen to be the “hot” new colors for Fall of 2008!

Some of them will fit into a broad array of markets. Others will be more suitable for niche markets. By familiarizing yourself with hot trends, you will be able to impress prospective clients with what is currently IN! So as you begin to plan your new designs, take a look at what color experts and trendsetters are suggesting as the go-to colors!

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This weeks installment of Wednesday’s Font Round-Up is a collection of fonts from exljbris Font Foundry. The quality of these fonts is exceptional and it’s hard to believe they are free. Here are my favorites. My recommendation is to scoop these up!

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An introduction to Yslow

Yslow is a tool to help you speed up your website. It’s an add-on for Firefox—or rather, an add-on to an add-on: Yslow installs on top of the popular Firebug add-on. So first you install Firebug, then you install Yslow.

When you run Yslow, it will analyse your web page according to 13 performance rules; for each rule, you receive a grade from A (best) to F (fail). You also receive an overall grade and a score (out of 100). At the time of writing, both Google.com and Yahoo.com score 96 (a high A); most websites get an F grade.

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This weeks Squeezy Links focuses on the JS Framework, blogs and SEO. Some great little plugins for your site through jQuery and MooTools and some help getting your site optimized for search engines. In the Blogs section, some great site with tons of articles and tutorials on helping you create a site and keep in interesting.

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