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Litepost is a new open source web application that’s taking a new approach to the long-ignored realm of webmail. The state of online email has been advanced enormously by Gmail and Yahoo in the past two years, but the webmail apps, particularly the open source ones, haven’t responded in kind. Litepost is worth keeping an [...]

I’ve been doing some reading on landing pages … and the thought occurred to me: My whole blog should be a landing page.
Here’s what I mean by that statement: Simply, your blog should convert your site guests to accomplish your goals, whatever those are.
As a blog designer, one of the first questions I ask clients [...]

The future of Thunderbird is uncertain. Thunderbird has been my favorite email client for about four years now, though I now mirror my email on Gmail purely for the search.
Matt

For some time now, I’ve been clicking over to check out the delicious “In Pictures” galleries that Forbes Magazine puts up on a continual basis.
These content snippets in particular are great examples of compelling content that creates clicks …
Here’s two examples in particular that I ate up:
10 Elements of a Business Plan
Five Do-It-Yourself PR Tactics
Here [...]

He who controls the traffic — the mass of Web users logging on each day — is king.
That company or website who can steer and siphon and redirect the majority of Web surfers is Google controls traffic through search.
Now … Google is a verb.
When your brand name is used commonly as a verb, I think [...]

Intelligent web content is the literature of our time. Amber Simmons argues that conventional approaches have starved the life out of web writing.
 
Hide Your Shame: The A List Apart Store and T-Shirt Emporium is back. Hot new designs! Old favorites remixed! S, M, L, XL. Come shop with us!
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How is it that the very foundation of the web, written text, has taken a strategic back seat to design? Bronwyn Jones argues that great web design is not possible without the design of words.
 
Hide Your Shame: The A List Apart Store and T-Shirt Emporium is back. Hot new designs! Old favorites remixed! S, M, [...]

WordPress.com Stats Plugin 1.1, now it doesn’t bounce you to WordPress.com to view your stats. I think it’s pretty slick.
Matt

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Apart from Floats, the CSS Specificity is one of the most difficult concepts to grasp in Cascading Stylesheets. The different weight of selectors is usually the reason why your CSS-rules don’t apply to some elements, although you think they should have. In order to minimize the time for bug hunting [...]

I’m still recovering from the conference this weekend. It was really amazing in both the people who attended and the quality of the presentations. Anyone have a good roundup post or liveblog any sessions? Leave it in the comments. The session pages are picking up pingbacks but seem to be missing some good stuff.
Matt

Due to popular request, John Jantsch and I have released version two of our Duct Tape Business Blog theme … this time with an editable graphic in the header.
Please note: If you’re not skilled at Photoshop or tweaking a blog, you may want to use the Duct Tape Business Blog theme with the text header.
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KRON 4’s Brian Shields Reports on Wordcamp.
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Every day you visit one of them. The pages, which don’t exist any longer, have moved to a new server or have never existed at all. Once you’ve missed your intended destination, either through a bad or outdated link, or a typo in the page you were hoping to [...]

Reading some summaries of WordCamp at Blogging Pro, I saw this blurb that really caught my eye (and excitement) drawn from Matt Mullenwegs talk:
WordPress is evolving into a content management system.
My friend Brian Gardner has talked about WordPress as a CMS … and I wrote a whole series about how smaller church websites could utilize [...]

I just gave RockinThemes, where Nathan and I have launched over 40 free WordPress themes, a new facelift.
The old site was, well, old and outdated. Badly. We’ve got some tweaks still to do but you get the idea.
Here’s a screenshot:
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