Discoveries

Silktide Sitescore – how does your website score?

The service can be a little slow when they’re busy, but trust me and WAIT. This site tells you all sorts of important things about YOUR site, like how fast and accessible it is, whether it’s popular, and whether it has “good” design.

UrlTrends :: Website Optimization Reports, Search Engine Ranking Trends and Online Competitive Research

This is a great resource for site owners. It shows your ranking on a number of services and compares it to the average.

My Top 12 CSS Articles/Tricks of 2005 (one for each month)

A forum thread on with tons of great links to CSS ideas.

Zebra Tables

If you’re using tables for data, this makes your data more readable.

Web Developer’s Handbook

Enormous list of useful links to CSS tips/techniques and much more.

Photocase

Okay, the English is only quasi-English, but so what! There are great, free photos here.

famfamfam.com: Icons

Such great, cute, and FREE icons.

25 Sites You Shouldn’t Have Missed in 2005

A great list of web design resources, ranging from icons to fonts to CSS.

25 Best License-Free Quality Fonts

An excellent list of great professional fonts. Oh, yeah, and they’re free. Maybe I don’t need a font budget!

Web Server Backup

A guide to backing up your webserver incrementally with rsync.