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    Is it worth joining Twitter?

    True ... I get maybe about 30 hits/month from twitter ... but that's mostly from other peoples' tweets. I'm sure there are ways I could "use" twitter more effectively to drive traffic ... but it's not my priority yet. Maybe that's a mistake?
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    Is it worth joining Twitter?

    Well, I just found this post thanks to a tweet by The Boss so ... that proves something, doesn't it? Twitter search is useful to watch how your brand gets tweeted and re-tweeted, whether the tone is generally SiteXYZ rocks/sucks ... but you don't need to be a member to use search. I'm not sure...
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    Twitter

    I don't have nearly that many tweets yet. I tried twhirl but didn't like it, trying tweetdeck now. Why are all the twitter clients desktop apps? I just followed you btw :)
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    'How do you stop an Â' symbol appearing before every '£' sign?

    those codes are called "html entities" - you'll need them for euro signs, too, letters with accents, greek letters ... depends on what your site needs. There's a big list at HTML ISO-8859-1 Reference
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    Browser pop up...

    as previously mentioned, lightbox or equiv is your best bet, I don't think there are any transition effects available for actual browser windows ... they're there or they're not ...
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    Adding alt tags to images within a javascript slideshow

    images = new Array(); images[count++] = new ImageItem("5678000-01070.jpg", "alt tag for 1070"); images[count++] = new ImageItem("5678000-01071.jpg", "alt tag for 1071"); If you can, change the ImageItem constructor to take an extra parameter, which will become the alt tag. Something like...
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    CSS Drop down menus

    The submenu needs to be inside the <li> menu header. The submenu display is controlled by the CSS rule "#tablist li:hover ul" (or javascript for IE). <ul id="tablist"> <li> <a class="current" href="index.html" accesskey="m"><span class="key">Home</span></a>...
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    FREE online icon editor and thousands of free icons

    Iconfu is an easy-to-use online icon editor and library for anybody who needs to draw or modify an icon but doesn't necessarily have the means (time/money/corporate approval) to use heavyweight commercial photo-editing or vector software. It's optimized for icon manipulation, so for example the...
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    Web Design - Usability Resources?

    Have you had a look at "The Design of Everyday Things"? It appears to be the classic usability book, although it's literally about everyday things - door handles and kettles, not the Web. Great for principles. I remember leafing through "Don't Make Me Think!" and not liking it very much, so...
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    CSS Drop down menus

    using CSS, make the menu invisible, then use more CSS to make it visible again when hovered <div class='menu'>menu label <ul> <li>menu item 1</li> <li>menu item 2 etc</li> </ul> </div> .menu ul { display:none; } .menu:hover ul { display:block; } That's the...
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    Twitter has SEO Value...

    I have a twitter account for myself (conanite) and for my site (iconfu), but I haven't really invested in the site account - partly because nobody's following it yet :( I have to say though that on twitter I would hesitate to follow a logo because I would expect marketing, and I don't go to...
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    Background image in a table not appearing in browsers

    I put the url of the image in single-quotes. I don't know if this is required by the specification, but I haven't had problems either. background-image: url('/assets/images/my_background.png'); the other thing that might be going wrong is the availability of the file - is it in the right place...
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    How has this been done?

    firebug vs webdeveloper I has both firebug and webdeveloper installed, but I use firebug a lot more. Webdeveloper has some very handy quickly-accessible features, like disable cache and "outline current element" which are great when you can't figure out why stuff isn't working. But firebug is...
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    How has this been done?

    Exactly. Great as a slideshow for photos or other portfolio work, or as a kind of multi-step input form. Trickier for textual content.
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    How has this been done?

    A difficulty for google is that from the perspective of its indexing spider, everything is on one page, but from the perspective of a human, there are several "pages". So when someone queries google with a search term for which your site is a candidate hit, google has no way to send that user...
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