Easy Webbers

I would hate to try and guess how many new bookmarking sites and techniques have jumped up in the last 18 months or so but there are still some of the old faithful ones that are still around and no doubt, hard to beat.Â

I just visited myHq, a bookmarking site that came online in 1998, and yes it’s still free and some of the users bookmarking pages look great!

The first one I clicked was http://www.myhq.com/public/f/c/fcweb/, so that means his or her user name was fcweb and they allowed their bookmarks page to be public. After viewing the page I think the fcweb stands for first class website with super quality material. What do you think of that page webmasters?Â

The point I am trying to get across is how most bookmarking sites today don’t reveal the talent of the user and the only real exception I can think of is Stumble Upon which I think is great. Users take their time and show their talent and don’t rush to see who can digg the most the quickest which to me cuts down on quality all the way around.

It must be the fast paced world in which we live:)

Enjoy

Microsoft Surface I really don’t know how to explain this new venture from Microsoft except to let you view it for yourself. Can you image positioning your images with your hands and that’s just a start.

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

Since we are on the subject of new and high tech goodies, view this demo of Google’s new Street Views.

http://maps.google.com/

What’s a poor old webmaster to do?
I think I’ll go invent somethingJ

Here are my favourite webmaster related forums. If you got any other favourites, please share them with the rest of us.

• The Digital Point Forum - A very big and active forum.
• CodingForums.com - A great forum if you need some help with your programming.
• Webmasters Meet - Not the most active forum but a forum that has that helpful and happy feeling over it. This is a great place to find new webmaster friends.
• AdBrite Forum - The one and only AdBrite Forum.
• NamePros - Discuss domain names and everything related to that.
• Admin Fusion - Forum owner? Then this is the forum to have in your bookmarks!

Here comes a few random interesting links that I haven’t been able to blog about, enjoy:

• How to Get Started as a Domainer: 28 Tips, Techniques and Resources
• What phrases link to your website?
• CSS + JavaScript creates a fancy menu tutorial.
• The Total Validator.
• The unofficial AdBrite forum has reached over 150 registered users!

If you code websites for handheld devices such as mobile phones here is a pretty interesting online validator for your pages.

Wait, there is more! Here are three very useful sites for mobile websites:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/aa455233.aspx
This is an overview of the Properties that are available in Cascading Style Sheets. These properties can be spatial, related to an aspect of the document, controlling layout or other such aspects of page design.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/aa455315.aspx
Internet Explorer Mobile supports the following Wireless Markup Language elements.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/aa455316.aspx
There are many elements in the XHTML language and many derivatives. This topic is designed to help understand which elements are supported in which derivative and within Internet Explorer Mobile.

The first speedlinking for this year. Now that’s sweet!

• Making PNG image transparency work in internet explorer.
• 50 Beautiful CSS-Based Web-Designs in 2006.
• Rounded corner and gradient generator.
• Top 7 Freshest Designs of 2006?
• Avoiding the 5 most common SEO mistakes by Johnathon from Sitepoint.

You can find older speedlinking posts here.

Here is a list of free Stock Photo websites. If you know any other please tell us by making a comment.

There is a difference between FREE stock photos and ROYALTY-FREE stock photos. FREE stock photos are free, without charge, for you to use however you want. ROYALTY-FREE stock photos often require an initial payment, but can be used without further payment for commercial purposes (some may have a limit of how many times it can be used).

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Here comes some interesting links for week 46:

• Three reasons sites break in Internet Explorer 7.
• Recommended web development tools for OSX.
• CSS based forms: modern solutions (registration and feedback forms 2.0).
• More Chitika Ad Optimizing Tips…
• How to Improve Your Chitika Ads Performance.

Interesting links from this week, enjoy! If you know any others please tell us by making a comment.

• Work Boxers explains how to request link exchanges.
• Let your users choose their own width of content boxes.
• Here is a bunch of different CSS image gallery tutorials.
• Keep your readers happy with fast-loading blogs.
• Skype 3.0 BETA has been released.
• MSN Live updated its search engine results on November 3rd. This post discusses the result and provides some tips on how to get better search engine rankings using SEO.
• Apple updates their MacBook. Me wants.

This is the single best list of Web 2.0 web sites I have seen in a while now. The list is categorized and includes several known sites and almost all of my personal favorites. But. Be careful, because it’s easy to spend several hours looking at the links on this site.
realsoftwaredevelopment.comÂ