Andy Boyd

We’ve selected fresh high quality icons, buttons, vector graphics, templates and layouts. You might know some of them, but hopefully not all of them…

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Yoav Ezer, from Codswallop, provided a fantastic list of web apps that are essential to a freelancer for managing his/her busines..From invoicing to marketing, these are tools that freelancers need to know about.

100 essential web apps for freelancers

Apple updates MacBook with faster processors (updated) by ZDNet’s Jason D. O’Grady — It wasn’t the MacBook Pro update we were hoping for but Apple today announced new MacBooks that feature faster Intel Core 2 Duo processors, 1GB of memory, 802.11n wireless networking and larger hard drives in every model. The new configurations are now available from the Apple store: - 2.00GHz, 1GB RAM, 80GB HDD, Combo, 802.11n, US$1,099 […]

Read the full story here:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=524

The good people over at www.avivadirectory.com have written a fantastic summary of laws and suggested practices to avoid running into legal trouble while blogging. A lot of their advice is useful for anyone who is running an e-commerce website.

In avivadirectory’s own words, This resource covers (in plain language) what a webmaster needs to know about paid post disclosure, deep linking, thumbnails, stolen content, domain names, private data, comment liability, tax law, newsletters, journalist shield laws, and user-generated content liability.

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This is one for the Java Swing developers out there.  This is a great tutorial on creating  translucent Java Windows on Mac OS X.
http://www.curious-creature.org/2007/04/10/translucent-swing-windows-on-mac-os-x/

Interested to know what your customers (or potential customers) expect when they enter your site?  Read this study to learn more…

http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/41/web_object-ecom.htm

The SEO Playbook (below) serves as a great reference for how to balance web-design/usability with SEO (Search Engine Optimization):

http://www.stuntdubl.com/2007/04/18/seo-playbook/

Web worker daily provides a host of options for backing up your files on your Mac:

http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/04/26/options-for-backing-up-your-files/ 

If you need to backup only some of your files, check out MediaMax:

https://www.mediamax.com/home/backup.aspx?CMP=ILC-SLHome-Backup

MediaMax offers 25 GB of storage for free…

Check out this great article on CSS Positioning…

http://www.digital-web.com/articles/web_design_101_positioning/