Saturday, October 17, 2009

Best of Rob's Web: The 10 Best Sites I Saw This Week

http://www.plugin.com/
Some very cool articles on this blog including: "Advice from a Pro on How to Monetize Your Site", "Rising Popularity of the Unconference" and "Daydream Your Way to Greatness".

http://blogchef.net/sesame-chicken-recipe/
Mmmm... how to make Sesame Chicken.  3 things I'm attracted too: sweet, tasty and Asian.

http://www.randygage.com/artman/publish/article_178.shtml
This is one of the most truthful articles about branding that I've ever read.  In short, this article explains why a brand can't be bought by advertising.

http://haineault.com/media/examples/jquery-utils/demo/ui-timepickr.html
A JQuery Time Picker.  Nice user interface on this.  Simple and straight forward.

http://tutorialzine.com/2009/10/jquery-twitter-ticker/
I don't think that JQuery is the best way to enable this functionality, but if you need a quick drop-in twitter feed, bingo bango, this thing does it.

http://www.brandonwalkin.com/blog/2009/08/10/managing-ui-complexity/
Managing UI Complexity.  I spend a lot of time thinking about the web... and by web I mean user interface.  This is is a shockingly awesome jumping point for deep thought about UI.

http://www.beautifullife.info/web-design/15-websites-offering-free-stock-photos/
Want to make money online?  Like taking photos?  If so, here are 15 places to make money!

http://briancray.com/2009/05/29/find-web-visitors-location-javascript-google-api/
Free (low volume) Geolocation.  Here's how to find out where a website visitor is with javascript and Google's jsAPI.

http://astuteo.com/slickmap/
Sitemaps are required these days.  No longer an option, a sitemap is an important part of SEO.  Here's a quick and easy stylesheet (with instructions) to turn your SE friendly sitemap into a nice looking feature for human users too.

http://www.cssreflex.com/2009/07/13-magnificent-free-wordpress-portfolio-themes.html
I just finished writing an article about How to Create a Career Portfolio.  I found this collection of 13 free wordpress themes.  They look great and would work well for anyone maintaining a portfolio - and everyone should these days.

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