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links for 2007-01-21

  • Joshuaink: How much do you charge?
    Very late (almost 2 years!) to the party on this one, but this is a really interesting discussion of freelance web worker rates in the UK and abroad… I wonder how much things have changed since April 05?
    (tags: business webdesign work webdevelopment rates freelance interesting discussion money)
  • The Definitive Guide to Web Character Encoding [HTML & XHTML Tutorials]
    Really nice and accessibly written guide to character encoding, along with common pitfalls
    (tags: web webdevelopment webdesign webstandards howto internet buildingblocks)
  • How to Change the World: The Effective Emailer
    Bunch of great tips on writing effective emails. To be honest, quite generally re-applicable to other written communication too!
    (tags: effective emails efficiency bestpractice howto lifehacks management business work)
  • Creating Passionate Users: Who’d you make smile today?
    Another great post from Kathy, talking about the little things that can make all the difference in user/consumer experience.
    (tags: fun happiness inspiration marketing people psychology usability users consumers)
  • The Dilbert Blog: Car Service
    “At this point I might as well turn around and grab my ankles. If you don’t know the year your car was made, there’s no way you’re going to know if the engine block really wore out after 20,000 miles.”
    (tags: funny humour dilbert nonexpert consumers users confidence)
  • Andy Budd::Blogography: 7 Habits of a Highly Successful Freelance Web Designer
    “Networking sounds like a scary thing to do, but in reality it’s usually just a case of hanging out with people in your industry, sharing war stories and occasionally getting some work out of it.”
    (tags: business careers freelance inspiration productivity howto web webdesign webdevelopment)
  • Alex Faaborg – » Basing the Design of History on the User’s Memory
    Really interesting discussion of how to make the History feature in Firefox (and browsers generally) more useful
    (tags: bookmarks history firefox design hci users interface usability)
  • the 200ok weblog: two weeks on twitter
    “So is Twitter a status stream or a chat tool? It’s both, depending on the hive mind’s mood.”
    (tags: twitter socialsoftware society tools web web2.0 webapplications)
Posted by delicious @ 9:21 PM on January 21, 2007
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