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This site provides a great resource for Web Design. It publishes links to content that is essential reference for people building sites.

» SoYouKnow

When it comes down to it, if you want to learn SharePoint development it is going to take work, you are going to get frustrated, it won’t make sense and you are going to break things. Accept it… embrace it… back up often. Welcome to the stress filled world of SharePoint development.

» Enterprise Architecture, Software Architecture, Architects, and Architecting

» SEO and Social Media Marketing: Part IV - A B2B Marketing How-to

These are very specific tips obviously, but they go to show the little things that you can do when writing your news releases, allowing your information to be indexed for a much longer time. Additionally you must also take into account much of the information we wrote about in Parts I, II & III around hyperlinking key phrases within your news release. This is important for two reasons. First for when you put the news release up on your corporate site it is already optimized, but also when you put it out over the wire it will provide you with a SEO boost…that is if you are using the right wire.

» Introduction to Medium-Fidelity Prototypes |

Medium Fidelity Prototypes are used to develop an information architecture. It provides a platform to conduct meaningful user tests to evaluate complex functionality and to help determine user requirements.

» Interface | matters: "Low-Fidelity" Prototyping With Electronic Tools

This article describes the importance of developing a low fidelity prototype of a process. This can be done collaboratively at a white board, or it can be done electronically.

» Agile Project Management - PM Hut

Great blog on project management! It looks at lean and agile approaches to software development.

» Introducing the new Web Design from Scratch Blog for 2009

he grand goal of the blog is to help “Save the Pixel” to become a rallying cry for the movement for simplicity, not just a book title. I want the fundamental principles of “Save the Pixel” to become part of the accepted wisdom of this generation of designers.

My more immediate goal is to publish a stream of information that reflects and reports on current best practice in web design, in a way that’s accessible to the whole community - whether you’re an interested bystander, a budding designer, or a seasoned professional. I want the Web Design from Scratch blog to be just your cup of tea, something fresh and fun that you look forward to each week.

» Movable Type Developer's Toolbox | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine

I’ve linked to this website before. I am just astounded at how good their stuff is; lots of interesting, usable information that I can apply right away. And even though Movable Type gives me fits, I eat this stuff up!

» HTML Reference

Confused about when to use HTML and when to use XHTML? Want to know what the syntax differences are between the two? Do doctypes and DTDs leave you all discombobulated? Or perhaps you’d simply like to understand the basic structure of a web page?