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Aaron Gustafson is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Easy! Designs, a web development consultancy. He is also Group Manager of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) where he has spearheaded both Web Standards Sherpa and a small business outreach effort. He is also a speaker, and an author.
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Launchlist
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Touch Gesture Reference Guide
Wonderful work by Luke.
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Type Folly
An interesting web type experimentation tool.
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CSS3 Stacks Experiment
A nice example of Leopard's "stacks" concept in CSS.
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4 Ways to Create Web-Based Data Visualizations
Brian Suda wraps up some terrific options for data visualization on the web.
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Emotional Interface Design: The Gateway to Passionate Users
Aarron makes a strong case for personality and emotion in web design
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The State of Web Development 2010
Good stuff to know, from the fine folks at Web Directions and Scroll Magazine (especially John Allsopp).
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Designing for the iPad
A good overview of considerations.
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Placehold.it
Quick and simple image placeholders
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Going Nuts with CSS Transitions
Nat lays down some really nice CSS transform examples.
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Highcharts
Interactive JavaScript charts for your webpage.
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Google's list of performance tools
A very handy collection.
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Google: Page Speed May Become a Ranking Factor in 2010
Web design could be getting even more challenging for some people.
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@-moz-document
An interesting extension to CSS introduced by Mozilla.
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A Proper Web Standards Education: Part 1
Fellow OWEA member Chris Mills offers advice to the next generation of Web designers.
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Static Maps API v2 Wizard
Build your own Google Static Maps with this handy tool.
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Introducing Google Chrome Frame
Google sees IE's X-UA-Compatible and raises it "chrome=1"
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Enhancements to Georgia & Verdana Typeface Families Announced
W00t! Updated fonts for the web! (via @clagnut)
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HTML 5: The Markup Language
This is the best "for authors" version of the spec we've seen so far.
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Run Internet Explorer 6 (or IE7, or IE8) images in VMware Fusion on Mac OS X
Microsoft's official VMs, converted for your pleasure.
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My Latest Book
Crafting Rich Experiences with Progressive Enhancement