links for 2008-02-28

We’re well into the current era of the Web, commonly referred to as Web 2.0. Features of this phase of the Web include search, social networks, online media (music, video, etc), content aggregation and syndication (RSS), mashups (APIs), and much more. Cur

Google Analytics has tons of features that could fill a series of articles, but today I’ll just point out a few of the useful ones that can help you improve your web site and find out more about your visitors.

We’ve compiled the Motive Web Design Glossary to help demystify web communication. Coverage includes philosophy, business and marketing, usability, visual design, standards and technology.

Web Startups fail by trying to duplicate a great idea. If it’s been done once then chances are others have tried, and failed. There can only be one amazon.com or ebay.com…

He covers the existing 14 rules, plus 20 new rules for faster web pages. We’ve categorized the optimizations into: server, content, cookie, JavaScript, CSS, images, and mobile.

Jon Wiley, User Experience Designer for Google Apps, outlined some of the most important principles for designing interfaces at Google. In his presentation at the WritersUA conference, Jon listed the following guidelines:

Button collection son más de cien «botones web» recolectados de diversos sitios para inspirar a cualquiera que necesite diseñar su web. Digo lo de inspirar más que «botones gratis» dado que probablemente habría que conseguir el permiso de los auto