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After Thanksgiving Link Love — 15 Links that Are Better than Left-Overs

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Can’t Have You Sitting Home with Left-Overs

I’ve collected 15 links for you to read or add to your tool kit over the weekend. A wealth of interesting stories, toys, and treasures.

News Stories

  • Roundup: Digg’s crisis, Odeo, Amidzad’s touch, Mobio’s movies, HAVA for Christmas

  • Best of the Web 2006 Clicke the categories in the sidebar to see each list.

    • Tools for Developers and Developer Wannabes

  • the web developer’s handbook Subtiopics in this resource include: creativity tools, css showcases, css galleries and showcases, color tools, color schemes and palettes, color patterns, fashion color selections, color theory, royalty free photos, css daily reading, css in German, web design daily reading, css theory, css layout, css navigation menu, css technique, css software and Firefox extensions, css web tools and services, html web tools and services, accessibility checkers, miscellaneous tools, javascript, ajas, DOM, fonts, typography, RSS, CMS and forum software, blogging, specifications, usability and accessibility, add a link (free), seo tools, seo references, how to get things done, freelancers, web 2.0, 2reads this week.

  • Online Generators ascii generators, css generators, color generators, domain name generators, email generators. favicon generators. flash generators. form generators. fun & humor generators. graphic & image generators. htaccess generators. metatag generators. misc. generators. password generators. pdf generators. php & MySQL generators. popup generators. robot.txt generators. rss generators.sitemap generators. text generators.tooltip generators. weblog generators.xmnl generators.

  • Curvy Corners Does what it says.

  • Best of the Best Web 2.0 Web Sites Includes links to The Complete List of Visual Studio Add-Ins and Tools, The Complete List of Ajax Tools, The Complete List of CSS Tools. The Complete List of Great Free TV Web Sites on the Internet. The Complete List of Software Development Events to Attend in 2007, The Complete List of Software Development Frameworks, Process’s, Methods, or Philosophies

  • Full Web Building Tutorials – All Free Too many to list.Includes basic HTML examples and color codes.

    • Buzz, Comments, and Links

  • Web 2.0: Buzz-Monitoring and Tracking Meausre, observe, analyze link popularity, track comments, get links

  • Blogger ForumTopics include Newbies, Template Design, Link Eschange, Coding, Getting Noticed

    • On Jobs

  • Steven R. Covey on Job Security In this pieces at JibberJabber, Steven Covey discusses the employment cycle, career management, branding and building a real network, and adapting to a new career.

  • A Job Candidate’s Bill of Rights 10 Traits to Expect from an Interviewing Process.

    • SEO/Marketing/PR

  • 10 Shortcuts for Successful SEO 10 Steps to follow.

  • Judy’s Book: Word of Mouth Website You Need to Know About

  • 21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic from SEOmoz Solid advice.

  • PRWEB Where it is and how it works.

  • Top Seven Ways How Writing Articles Can Explode Your Business

  • Creating a Slogan from Scratch Define your niche. Test adaptablility. Check for Matches.

    • No turkeys in this bunch. That was last Thursday’s deal. 🙂

    –ME “Liz” Strauss

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    EchoEcho on and on and on

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    Use at Your Own Risk

    This is SO COOL and SO DANGEROUS. If you know what small bit I do about coding, it might be a good idea to back up your template files before you start playing with this new toy. . . .

    Great Find: EchoEcho
    Type of Site:     Encyclopedia of information on how to build and maintain websites — This section: HTML Basics
    Permalink: HTML Basics: http://www.echoecho.com/html.htm
    Target Audience: Every blogger can find something useful on this site

    Content: On the home page of EchoEcho, you’ll see this quote

    “It’s easy to explain simple things so they seem to be complex…
    to explain complex things so they seem easy – that’s the real challenge!”

    The webmaster at EchoEcho has taken on the above challenge, and goes further by attempting to add the word complete. I’m not using hyperbole when I call this an encyclopedia of information about building websites. EchoEcho is a hosting company that knows how to establish credibility through ezine artitcles, tutorials, a forum, online tools free resources, even a quiz.

    The Tutorials are divided into three categories each of has subcatagories that cover several topics, talking each one many levels deep. Here are the categories and categories you’ll find there.

    • Page Building: HTML, Javascript, CSS, DTML, XML.
    • Component Building: Design, Flash, Java, Free Java Applets, Java Programming Tutorials
    • Server Programming: ASP, Cold Fusion, PERL, PHP, SSI

    I’ve set the link to the HTML Tutorial on the titleshot below. Click on over. EchoEcho is a reference to keep.

    EchoEcho HTML Tutorials

    There’s no questions that every blogger at every level can use this resource.

    EchoEcho has plenty of tools and things to learn, do, and make here for free — ways to add unique details, ways to differentiate your brand, ways to add to your blog’s curb appeal . . . ALSO ways to overdo the bells and whistles BIG TIME . . . ways to screw up your template too, if you you’re like me.

    I think I’ll ask friend to come along when I explore this site. I could get into some real trouble easily.

    Good luck and enjoy!

    –ME “Liz” Strauss

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    You’ll find other pages there and in the Tools and Stat/Tech categories.