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Links for July 2004

Real life savings 30 Jul 2004
Richard recaps and expands on the savings for the Multimap project. Faster, more accessible pages meant bandwidth didn’t decrease by as much as they expected — because they were getting lots more pageviews post-redesign.
Optimizing SEO 27 Jul 2004
Favorite quote: “There’s a part of me that’s always felt that, if you’re a professional at a certain trade, and I can come in as an amateur and do better than you, then you probably suck.” Way to be subtle, Anil!
These web sites are identical 27 Jul 2004
Purely identical. Even created and maintained by the same person. Actually, this is interesting comparison data, but I’d prefer the sample size to be much bigger. Not sure how Stopdesign ended up as the least dissident.
Eight things… 27 Jul 2004
Cameron on 8 simple bits of wisdom
Tantek on new Technorati 26 Jul 2004
Tantek details the overhaul of Technorati’s design and front-end code. Stay tuned for more.
Technorati Redesigns 26 Jul 2004
Technorati [begins to] roll out the launch of a new design with the help of Adaptive Path — apparently there’s more coming.
Chinese Bookworm Raises Her Voice in Cyberspace 24 Jul 2004
Read this story in the print edition of NYT this morning. Found it challenging that online writers in other countries are imprisoned for being writing dissident literature — not far away from political blogging.
Blogger Suggestions 23 Jul 2004
The external style sheet is something I also asked that they do — after all it would only make sense to have the CSS in one file, rather than in the head of every document. The image uploading is also something we (SD and AP) suggested that users would want to do. I’m sure the team at Google is listening.
Install the W3C HTML Validator on Mac OS X 23 Jul 2004
Just as the title says. (via Daring Fireball, via Will Parker)
MT Plugin contest winners 23 Jul 2004
Congratulations to Jay Allen, who wins first prize (a G5 dual 2GHz and a 23” cinema display) for MT-Blacklist in the MT developers plug in contest.
Designing a CSS Based Template 16 Jul 2004
Veerle has been assembling a really nice walkthrough of the process from start to finish. This is part IV, and there’s still more to come.
Per-site user stylesheets 15 Jul 2004
Simon expands on a XBL hack for Mozilla browsers that enables per-site user stylesheets for every site, even if it doesn’t already have a signature (like this one does).
Six Design Lessons From the Apple Store 13 Jul 2004
JJG takes a look at the principles and details of the Apple Store that can be applied to other types of design.
AllMusic snubs standards 13 Jul 2004
… and blows it big time. Looks like they’ll be paying a price for this awful move. Used to be a great service. Hopefully it will be again sometime soon after they learn their lesson.
Ryan on BayAreaFreeFi.com 9 Jul 2004
Ryan, the guy behind BayAreaFreeFi.com discusses the site. Shows how easy it would be for someone else in a different location to start a blog-based site for free wireless spots in their region.
Free Bay Area WiFi 9 Jul 2004
Partially Blogger-powered site (from Ryan MacCarthy) using the Rounders template. Has all kinds of spots in the Bay Area that provide free wifi. Cool.
A Year in Cornwall 9 Jul 2004
… is back up and running. Now that Frank is also a PHP guy, he recently switched from MT to WP, and has all kinds of info about customization.
Times Roman vs. Times New Roman 8 Jul 2004
In a response from 1994, Charles Bigelow elaborates on the differences between the two typefaces, and how they came about. (via Design Observer)
Tour de Lance 6 Jul 2004
Lance’s dream hardware config that easily costs over $10k for each fully-rigged setup
Glen! Glen! Glen! 1 Jul 2004
Great (fairly) new Starbucks commercial. (QuickTime)