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This is a fabulous resource for those needing to know what Web 2.0 was all about.

This course is designed to help you understand and effectively use a variety of “web 2.0″ technologies including blogs, RSS, wikis, social bookmarking tools, photo sharing tools, mapping tools, audio and video podcasts, and screencasts

The Google Chart API returns a PNG-format image in response to a URL. Several types of image can be generated: line, bar, and pie charts for example. For each image type you can specify attributes such as size, colors, and labels.
You can include a Chart API image in a webpage by embedding a URL within an image tag. When the webpage is displayed in a browser the Chart API renders the image within the page.

“HTML 4 has been around for nearly a decade now, and publishers seeking new techniques to provide enhanced functionality are being held back by the constraints of the language and browsers.”

This article by Lachlan Hunt describes how HTML 5 will introduce a wide range of features including form controls, APIs, multimedia, structure, and semantics.

Jeffrey Zeldman’s article explains what sets web design apart from design for other mediums.

“Web design is not book design, it is not poster design, it is not illustration, and the highest achievements of those disciplines are not what web design aims for. Although websites can be delivery systems for games and videos, and although those delivery systems can be lovely to look at, such sites are exemplars of game design and video storytelling, not of web design. So what is web design?”

Jeffrey Zeldman - A List Apart

This article Robots .txt Adventure by Andrew Wooster offers an insightful and humorous look at the state of robots.txt files found on the web today.

This article by Kevin Potts describes clearly how an effective website can improve your marketing and your business in general.

“All the latest and coolest web apps seem to have an API these days. But what is an API? And why should you care?”

Gareth Rushgrove’s article gives a great explanation of - just what is an API?

Please read Dean Allen’s article Reading Design

“designers need to be able to render ideas clearly.
It’s very nearly impossible to do that in an art–directed environment, of course, which is why most commercial design looks like wispy crap.”

The world has seen thousands of artists and millions of art works, this article describes how a few of the best known inspire us with color.
Beautiful Color Inspiration from the Masters