Every first Friday of the month, I will be posting some of my favorite bookmarks. Feel free to bookmark them or add them to your RSS reader (I use NewsFire) if they offer feeds. This week they will be mostly technical, but the overall themes will vary from month to month. Enjoy!
SmashingMagazine.com
A very good source of design and development information, resources, and tutorials. When begin the creative phase of a new website, I get a lot of inspiration from their showcase of designs.
.htaccessEditor.com
When editing .htaccess files, I’ve found this to be a great resource helping me to not only create, but validate my file. For those of you who haven’t had the chance to work with .htaccess, they are basically files that provide a way to make configuration changes on a per-directory basis. This allows for very fast URL redirects and masking. You can learn more about them here.
Snipr.com
As some of you may have noticed, I usually post a link to Facebook or Twitter using this free URL shortening service. It gives me the capability to monitor how many clicks a link has had and even to organize them by hits or edit the underlying link reference. Plus, I get to have an online record of some of my favorite links to check whenever/wherever I have an web connection.
Ping.fm
This is very helpful in posting status updates or other messages to multiple social networks or chat clients. It even works on my mobile phone, so I can update all my networks at once very easily.
digg.com
If you don’t use Digg on a daily basis yet, now’s the time to start. It’s an excellent resource for finding the latest & greatest news without much effort. Covering topics from technical to entertainment to gaming, Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web.
I hope you enjoy this short list and check back every Friday for even more great links!