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Project Management (and life) Wisdom straight from the mouths of the horses – oops, I mean project managers. It’s a bit long, and full of what most would say is a lot of common sense…but it can’t hurt. Via PM Source. MORE

From Treehugger: “Last week, SeQuential Biofuels opened the first solar powered biofuel station in Oregon. Attending the opening was Senator Ron Wyden and other state representatives. SeQuential Biofuels will offer biofuels to the mainstream market under a single, branded canopy. The biofuel station, located just off Interstate 5 in Eugene, Oregon, will be offering a full range of ethanol and biodiesel blends: E10, E85, B5, B20 and B100.” MORE

Quote from Blogging Pro: “While a lot of people are out to optimize their sites/blogs, most everyone seems to skip over CSS.

I have been spending some time looking at CSS Optimization tools today. I wanted something free, online, and easy to use. And of course, something that worked. There are actually quite a few websites that fit the bill, and some of them are easier to use, produce more friendly code, and others are a bit harder to use, but can produce amazing results.

I tested the CSS Optimizer, Icey’s CSS Compressor, Flumpcakes CSS Optimiser, and CleanCSS to see which one could compress some default CSS files from popular websites the best. ” LINK

This is the second article in a multi-part series on manipulating images with PHP. Quote: “In this second part of the “Image manipulation with PHP & the GD library” article series you will learn how to resize images, create thumbnails, watermark images and more.” LINK

There are two solutions that I am aware of currently for adding IM functionality to your existing web site or blog. One is from meebo, and the other one which I just now came across is called Ajax IM. Good stuff, and a great use of the net.

links: meebo me | Ajax IM

I’m a sucker for organized process, best practices, and comprehensive documentation. Often it is the case with IT projects that unanticipated problems, miscommunications and overlooked tasks could be avoided with clearer and more complete documentation. Usability, after all, is not just for end users. Will Jessup’s blog has a good overview of why and how to use style guides for web design projects that I think many would find helpful. LINK

I came across this on the www.seomoz.org blog via Digg. Quote: “This is a list of HTML elements I’ve found to be very poorly represented in most markup on the web today. Many of these elements offer more semantic value than actual functionality, but with the rising popularity of CSS driven design where HTML elements are used for what they were actually intended for, I felt shining a little light on them was appropriate.” LINK

I found a great solution for frame-like behavior with css. Quote: “One of the arguments for using frames has always been that they allow you to keep parts of the layout on-screen at all times. This can be emulated with CSS, as described here. This results in much better usability than normal frames, but there are still some potential problems you need to be aware of.” LINK

I just implimented LB 2.0 for all portfolio screenshots. Lightbox JS is “a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It’s a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.” I originally saw it on the Wordpress theme viewer and after sniffing out what they were using in their code, I tracked it down….had to have it for myself….my prescioussss. LINK

What’s New in Version 2.0
* Image Sets: group related images and navigate through them with ease
* Visual Effects: fancy pants transitions
* Backwards Compatibility: yes!