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With the google multi algorithmic approach combining, text metadata and popularity measures, the more people link to a site the higher it is in the search results and thus the more likely it is to be linked to.
People often place findability higher than content quality, if something is easily accessible, they will take what is easy to find and often give up looking further, even if further searches could have given them better results.
Networks – the greater the visibility the more likelihood of being found which further increases visibility.

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• Cooper Journal: Checkout checkup: Sites that get it right
  The art of a good ux on shopping sites
  (tags: shopping ux design)

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• Web Usability – Accessible Forms using WCAG 2.0
  Designing accessible forms to WCAG 2.0 guidelines.
  (tags: design wcag2 webstandards standards form *-to-read)

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• Jonny Haynes
  Jonny's blog
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• drupal.org | Community plumbing
  Open source content management system
  (tags: techophobia-cms Drupal OS)
• User Experience Project: The User Experience Wheel
  Value is what we want to accomplish
  For customers and providers, positive user experience is a win-win situation
  We want to accomplish value through positive user experience
  The user experience is a series of phases, we have to focus on positivity in findability, accessibility, desirability, usability, credibility and usefulness
  To achieve this we work backwards, starting and ending with search engine strategy, and going through and making a choice about each of the factors
  (tags: UX)
• Heuristics for User Interface Design
  Ten general principles on UI design according to Jacob Nielsen
  (tags: Heuristics ui Jacob-Nielsen)

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• 11 Useful Tools To Check, Clean & Optimize Your CSS File | MakeUseOf.com
  A bunch of very useful css tool to check clean and optimise the code.
  (tags: design css *-to-read)
• ClickZ – Stats
  Clickz – digital marketing site – illustrating trends and patterns in online usage.
  (tags: *-to-read market-research research marketing resources)
• PXtoEM.com: PX to EM conversion made simple.
  As it says on the box – px to em conversions made easy
  (tags: design css typography)

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• Inverted pyramid – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Writing styles – the inverted pyramid – the most substantial information conveying the essence of the story. The first paragraph offers a little mroe details and the remaining gives the full story. BBC News approach to writing articles for the web
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• Writing Decisions: Headline tests on the Highrise signup page – (37signals)
  A/B testing
  (tags: *-to-read research techniques)
• 24 ways – web design and development articles and tutorials for advent
  Some great articles on a range of topics from the likes of Jeffrey Zeldman, Dan Rubins, Marcus Lillington and Gavin Bell.
  (tags: *-to-read design-development tp-designers)

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• Strange Attractor » Blog Archive » A new web discipline: Social Functionality Design
  Suw Charman on social functional design – bringing in community early enough into the design process. Designing for different modes of communication, how the design of a site facilitates of hinders patterns of behaviour?
  (tags: design-community design-interaction social)
• LukeW: Web Application Form Design
  Luke Wroblewski on form and interface design
  (tags: design forms tp-designers usability interface)

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• Eleven Tips For Optimizing PDFs For Search Engines
  1. Make sure your PDFs are text based.
  2. Complete the document properties.
  3. Optimize the copy.
  4. Build links into PDFs.
  5. Pay attention to the version. (Acrobat 7)
  6. Optimize the file size for search.
  7. Pay attention to placement.
  8. Influence meta descriptions for PDFs.
  9. Specify the reading order.
  (tags: pdf SEO tp-designers)
• PDF Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 13 September 2001
  W3C guide on creating accessible pdf documents.

  'Tagged PDF is a stylized use of PDF that allows reliable recovery of text, graphics, and images in PDF documents, with no ambiguity about the contents or the ordering of the contents. A Tagged PDF file is page oriented. Each page of a Tagged PDF document contains the text, graphics, and images in reading order, as determined by the authoring application. A Tagged PDF is a Logical Structured PDF. Logical Structure is used to carry information necessary to support tagging for access and content extraction, as well as styling properties needed for access, reflow, and content extraction. It also provides the identification of the article flows in the cross-page environment for access and content extraction.'

  (tags: tp-designers W3C accessibility pdf)

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