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Opera Web Standards Curriculum is a free online complete course to teach you standards-based web development. Nice. Chris Mills has written the first article in the curriculum which includes the table of contents. More content will be filled out as time progresses.

Andy Rutledge’s list in his post The Employable Web Designer puts forward a strong list of traits, skills and generic attributes of someone who would be hurriedly hired as a web designer (of course if they were that good it would just piss everyone off anyway, but a great list to work by).

We all know type is sexy - oh yeh!

David Sherwin’s Designers Hate Estimating Part1, Part 2 and Part 3. The unquantified factors are important to understand if you want to make money - clients changing needs, client’s initial lack of articulation of real needs, client behaviour during the project, and learning curves.

The Pencil Project is a Firefox 3 add on that turns your browser into a sketching tool.

Scribus Open Source Desktop Publishing supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation. Some very good things are being said about this software.

Veerles’ inspiration series - say no more. Posters.

As the ICON5 Conference is on in New York at the moment I’m wondering if we could possibly pester them for podcasts to be available after the event? Other conferences do it, and the added exposure of making them available contributes to marketing and ticket sales for next year (right?). Cheap. Share the love. Pretty please…