I recently tried Google Sitemaps, and found it to be a great way to see your website through Google’s eyes. The core purpose of Google Sitemaps is for website owners to feed Googlebot an XML sitemap listing URLs for all pages on their site (including those that may be otherwise inaccessible to robots), but there are many other features that web developers will appreciate.
I recently stumbled upon an archive of podcasts from the 2006 South by Southwest web design conference. There are like a gazillion of them, and they’re a lot cheaper than an international airfare and a conference ticket. In fact they’re free. Enjoy.
Recently I was discussing with my studio-mates what sort of contingency plan we have in place to prevent data loss. We all work as professional designers, and almost 100% of our work for clients is stored in digital format. A hard drive failure, fire, or theft of our computers could be catastrophic, setting us back days – possibly even weeks.
Adobe Flash Player 9 is available to download now from the Adobe website. The big news about this version of the player is it’s support for Actionscript 3, the new version of the Flash programming language.