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Contents and its small team of advisors have devised three simple rules customer-content-driven services and apps should follow to respect and protect our content:

Treat our data like it matters. Keep it secure and protect our privacy, of course—but also maintain serious backups and respect our choice to delete any information we’ve contributed.
No upload without download. Build in export capabilities from day one.
If you close a system, support data rescue. Provide one financial quarter’s notice between announcing the shutdown and destroying any user-contributed content, public or private, and offer data export during this period. And beyond that three months? Make user-contributed content available for media-cost purchase for one year after shutdown.

I strongly support these standards, spread the word and the movement!

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Proposed standards for the care and feeding of user generated content – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
THIS MORNING Contents Magazine launched the beginning of something both good and important: a set of guidelines that could lead to a safer world for user-created content. Contents believes (and I agre…

Time Lapse Video + Space Station

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Watch: An Awesome Time-Lapse Video Of Space Station Images
This lush time-lapse video of the nighttime view from NASA’s International Space Station (ISS) has been making the rounds on the interwebs, compelling grown men to gee-whiz and holy-crap all over them…

A very common question in the industry with new features popping up all the time and demands for legacy support lingering. Here are some good quotes Jeremy Keith uses from friends:

If you torture data for long enough, you can get it to confess to anything.

Like having a plumber come ‘round to fix your sink, only to ask you “Is it alright if I use this particular wrench?” You’re the plumber—you decide!

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Adactio: Journal—How do I convince…?
All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.

Google Index Status new to Webmaster Tools!

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Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Behold Google index secrets, revealed!
Webmaster level: All Since Googlebot was born, webmasters around the world have been asking one question: Google, oh, Google, are my pages in the index? Now is the time to answer that question using t…

We know that all browsers are not created equal. WordPress has some best practices about including scripts/styles in your theme/plugin, but what about those browser issues and fallbacks that you don't want included in 'modern' browsers? WordPress actually has some nice built in browser detection flags we can use to conditionally include files.

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Conditionally Enqueue Script/Styles By Browser
Currently WordPress's wp_enqueue_script() or wp_enqueue_style() does not accept extra data to add HTML conditional markup (see Ticket #16024). For example, using wp_enqueue_script(), you cannot output…

Here's a great overview article detailing css animations and keyframes. A well explained intro or a refresher for the veterans. Animation syntax is a bit different than normal CSS, but rightly so, because "normal" css styles elements statically (with some thought to states), but animations bring in a whole extra dimension! 

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CSS Animation: How it works from transitions to animations | Unmatched Style
Our mission is to provide inspiration, motivation and insight into how you design the web. CSS Animation: How it works from transitions to animations

I like this way of thinking, it goes to show that all involved had a unique and special part to play in building successful websites. This makes me want to start saying 'check mate' every time I launch a website or finish a project.

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Web Production as Chess :: Echo Enduring Blog – A Web and Graphic Design Blog
In this fun, quirky little post, guest author Arley McBlain considers the world of web production as it relates to the classic strategy game of chess. Interesting parallels are established between the…

Don't let your selector or selector chain look like it's from crazy town. Keep things scalable, modular … like SMACSS I say.

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Crazy Town Selectors | CSS-Tricks
I recently used this selector as an example in a blog post: .article #comments ul > li > a.button { /* Crazy town */ } There was a few comments t