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http://principles.adactio.com/#organisations Why doesn't HTML include tags for style?
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/29/45-incredibly-useful-web-design-checklists-and-questionnaires/

45 Incredibly Useful Web Design Checklists and Questionnaires - Smashing Magazine | Smashing Magazine

Designing websites can be a long and complicated process. Dealing with clients, designing prototypes, coding, programming, and testing – there’s a lot to keep track of and a lot to make sure gets done . That’s where checklists can make your life a whole lot easier. With lists of points covering multiple areas from content to usability to accessibility to standards, you’re a lot less likely to overlook important parts of a site. Below are 45 checklists to make your design process easier and more organized .

refine - Google Refine, a power tool for working with messy data (formerly Freebase Gridworks) - Google Project Hosting

Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases like Freebase . http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/
http://uxpunk.com/websort/

Card Sorting with Results | WebSort.net

Find out more about WebSort's features and pricing . [WebSort] made it much easier to reach a large number of participants anywhere in the world, which was helpful when using it to design and evaluate the IA of a large company intranet with 140,000 employees all over the world.

Future of Wireframing - HotGloo

Elements You’ll find a huge range of UI elements in the elements list. Standard elements: squares, cirlces, triangles, lines, rich text fields, image placeholders, labels, buttons, symbols, tables, dropdown menus, input fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, etc. http://www.hotgloo.com/
When you’re storing every transaction for 800 million users and handling more than 60 million queries per second, your database environment had better be something special.

Facebook shares some secrets on making MySQL scale — Cloud Computing News

http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-shares-some-secrets-on-making-mysql-scale/

Mental Model Diagrams (Cartoon)

http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/23/mental-model-diagrams-cartoon/ We tend to carefully create our HTML and CSS, and meticulously place every pixel to our designs. We plan exactly where our content should be placed on a particular site.
Web Annotation

CloudFlare is a service that utilizes proprietary technology to make websites run safer and faster around the world.

Tips: Top Tips when activating through a CloudFlare Hosting Partner - CloudFlare's blog

http://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-tips-top-tips-when-activating-thro
When it comes to mobile application development, the debate surrounding native vs web is divisive to say the very least. On one side of the battlefield there are those who believe there's an adherent benefit to developing native applications optimised to fully take advantage of the capabilities specific devices and platforms (such as iOS) have to offer. http://www.netmagazine.com/opinions/one-web-dont-write-devices-write-people

The One Web: don't write for devices, write for people | Opinion | .net magazine

Mind Mapping & Diagrams

With the constant advancements that occur on various search engines’ algorithms, it is certain that the search and link game will be harder in the days/months/years to come compared to what it was like a decade ago. Search users’ behaviors tend to grow and change as these developments arise and being employed by search engines, which makes the online marketing space more competitive, especially when it comes to link building.

26 Creative and Innovative Link Building Experts and Their Strategies | Kaiserthesage

1. If the site is so big, and your expert review is only a "sample", then present your findings as "training" in usability design.

Past issue - UI Design Newsletter

At ZURB we tend to tackle big problems, both for clients and for our products like Notable and Verify . When you're up against a big problem it's easy to get stuck — you'll overthink the problem, spend days or weeks worrying about it and sketching out solution after solution.

Got a Big Problem? Focus on Something Small.

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