Google Guide   Online tutorial on using Google effectively.

Apple Developer Connection – December 15, 2003. &nbsp This article gives some practical hints on how to create standards-conforming websites, and to work around some of issues that will arise for Explorer for Windows.

Kuro5hin – December 17, 2003. &nbsp A brief overview of some techniques to block bad crawlers and protect email addresses from spammers.

macosxhints – December 10, 2003. &nbsp You can specify Workgroup (along with user ID) in the SMB connect-to string. For example:

smb://WORKGROUP;machine.somewhere.com/Share

smb://WORKGROUP;User@machine.somewhere.com/Share

smb://WORKGROUP;User:Password@machine.somewhere.com/Share/

Unrelated hint to clear DNS cache: lookupd -flushcache (might need sudo)

Meyerweb –
Multi-level cascading menus without JavaScript using the :hover pseudoproperty of CSS2. Doesn’t work in IE.

Here’s the foundation of this effect:

  li ul {display: none;}

  li:hover ul {display: block;}

Sprinkle a little positioning on top of that, so that the popout menus go where you want them, and you’re in business.

Zeldman – November 6, 2003.   A mess of CSS links.

US National Cancer Institute – Entire Guidelines Book (128 pages) available as a PDF (39.2 MB) .

Macromedia Edge – Jeffrey Zeldman explains how designers can make the transition to structural thinking, thereby saving their readers bandwidth and time, and saving themselves much future labor (Flash).

Ongoing – Tim Bray “You want to put funny characters in your XML, ones that aren’t on your keyboard. XML has a bunch of ways to do this; some of them require sophisticated software, others are really ugly, and if you want to avoid both the ugliness and the fancy software, you can use a DTD. This set of issues has been darkening the XML skies for years now, but we may have stumbled on a way out of the box.”

Joel Spolsky covers the development and use of Unicode, “a brave effort to create a single character set that included every reasonable writing system on the planet.”

Layout-o-matic CCS creation:
“We’ve already been through the pain of making our layouts cross-browser compatible, so you don’t have to! Select a layout type, width, and other options to the left, and then click Download or View.”

Useit.Com: Misconceptions About Usability. Most companies still don’t employ systematic usability methods to drive their design. The resulting widespread ignorance about usability has given rise to several misconceptions that warrant a response.

An introduction to PHP. “You will learn how it came about, what it looks like, and why it is the best server-side technology. It also exposes the most important features of the language. ”

Listutorial takes you through the basics of building CSS lists with “background images for bullets” and “simple rollovers” with a few variations along the way .

Eric A. Meyer’s Minimal Markup, Surprising Style describes style sheet formatting options for lists.