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Joshua Porter’s presentation slides from his talk On Being a Web Craftsman at the Boston Markup & Style Society run by Dan Cederholm and Ethan Marcotte.

Design Coding from Poetic Prophet - SEO Rapper has put another dimension to the education of best practice website development. Who would have thought web standards, accessibility and usability would make it to the Rap scene?

My late father-in-law John Langdon was a potter who made sculptures using a wood fired kiln and ingredients he sourced locally on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. The site is made by his daughter, my partner Linden, to commemorate his work.

The Functional Accessibility Evaluator from the Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

How we handle our moleskins always interests me. Veerle has a post about the way she creates patterns over numerous iterations and she never knows exactly what they will become.

Christopher Phin has some advice for how to avoid being assaulted by random groups of typographic nazis in Ten Typographic Mistakes Everyone Makes. He has cures for these on the Mac but not for Windows users unfortunately.

With the stable release of WordPress 2.5 the site and the application have had a high quality redesign by Happy Cog. This is now a very elegant looking bit of software.

Some Smashing April Calendars to download. That’s 14 desktop calendar wallpapers for April 2008 designed by 14 people across the globe.