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Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign — http://www.alistapart.com/articles/redesignrealign
URLs are important — http://webdesign.about.com/b/a/214904.htm
Learn to control the robots that haunt you — http://webdesign.about.com/b/a/212937.htm
You should think about how your Web articles are formatted — http://webdesign.about.com/b/a/217022.htm
1. Use the Right Type of List for the Information
2. Skip lines between list items that wrap onto more than one line
3. Use Callouts and Bold Them
4. Bold Callouts at the Beginning of Longer Bullet Points
5. Use Subheads for Sections of a Document
6. Don't Overbold
7. Keep paragraphs to 2-4 sentences tops
8. First paragraph sentence should contain the main idea; the rest add detail
9. Indent long quotes (use block quote or shading)
10. Link, but don't overlink
One of my favorite tricks is to make fake buttons with links and CSS — http://webdesign.about.com/b/a/214917.htm
WebPatterns and WebSemantics — http://westciv.typepad.com/dog_or_higher/2005/11/webpatterns_and.html
http://tantek.com/log/2002/12.html#L20021216t2238
High Accessibility Is Effective Search Engine Optimization — http://alistapart.com/articles/accessibilityseo
Ambient Findability: Findability Hacks — http://www.alistapart.com/articles/ambientfindability
Don't cheat, it's not cool and Google won't like you — http://webdesign.about.com/b/a/220920.htm

Some How-to, Tutorials and References: Why Web browsers are quirky — http://webdesign.about.com/b/a/212939.htm; Standards Based DHTML Menus — http://webdesign.about.com/b/a/211008.htm; DHTML Menus — Not Standards Based — For IE and Other Browsers — http://webdesign.about.com/cs/dynamichtml/a/aadhtmlmenus2.htm; XSL-FO — http://webdesign.about.com/b/a/211006.htm; Have you met eXstensible Style Sheets — http://webdesign.about.com/b/a/211004.htm; Building Web Applications Just Got More Fun (AJAX) — http://webdesign.about.com/b/a/210999.htm; DHTML Attributes — http://webdesign.about.com/b/a/209186.htm; Dynamic HTML (DHTML) — http://webdesign.about.com/cs/dynamichtml/a/aa030298.htm; IE and the box model are not good friends — http://webdesign.about.com/b/a/214915.htm; Did you know you can use CSS to hide your CSS? — http://webdesign.about.com/b/a/214912.htm; Using Bugs in Browsers to Hide CSS Calls — http://webdesign.about.com/cs/css/a/aahidecss.htm; CSS navigation is easiest with lists — http://webdesign.about.com/b/a/220917.htm; Converting to XHTML isn't that hard — http://webdesign.about.com/b/a/220916.htm; Ten things to know about CSS — http://webdesign.about.com/b/a/218915.htm; Finally! CSS includes text — http://webdesign.about.com/b/a/217025.htm

A List Apart: Negative Margins — http://www.alistapart.com/articles/negativemargins/; CSS Swag: Multi-Column Lists — http://www.alistapart.com/articles/multicolumnlists; Introducing the CSS3 Multi-Column Module — http://www.alistapart.com/articles/css3multicolumn; Improving Link Display for Print — http://www.alistapart.com/articles/improvingprint; JavaScript Logging — http://www.alistapart.com/articles/jslogging; Printing a Book with CSS: Boom! — http://www.alistapart.com/articles/boom

javascript.about.com: Popup Blocked — http://javascript.about.com/library/blblock1.htm

Filler text on demand — http://web-graphics.com/mtarchive/001667.php
Bluefish Web Editor (http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html)
gui sucks
it's free
ActivePerl, specifically, useful for the 'get' web testing listed above. It's also useful for many things that I don't have the time or space to list. (http://www.activestate.com/activeperl)
Resin JSP Server (http://www.caucho.com)
standalone or amache module JSP/Servlet server
TypeSetter, compare screen fonts (http://typetester.maratz.com/)