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Jennifer Kyrnin: excellent web design resources at About.com

I’ve been experimenting with html editors – largely to get a handle on some layout issues while keeping the learning curve

Unequal Spacing - image by Jennifer Kyrnin

Unequal Spacing - image by Jennifer Kyrnin

nice and shallow – and in doing so discovered Jennifer Kyrnin, who is the author of a number of excellent articles at About.com.

Here’s her list of The 10 Best Free Web Editors for Windows. And here are some others I found helpful. (I’ll admit that when I found her arguing persuasively that tables shouldn’t be used for anything except tabular data because they slow things down, it wasn’t what I wanted to hear).

  1. Don’t Use Tables for Layout
  2. Using Tables to Do Page Layout
  3. Do You Really Need that Table?(1 – 3 were the triptych of bad news but good advice, I thought)
  4. 95 SEO Tips and Tricks
  5. SEO Step-by-Step
  6. What is Search Engine Optimization?
  7. SEO Made Simple (is by Heather Cross, another About.com writer, but it belongs with these other pieces)
  8. SEO Checklist
  9. Typography on the Web is About the Little Details
  10. Use Real Text for Testing Page Layouts – when to use, and when not to use, Lorem Ipsum (See also my earlier post HTML-Ipsum – preformatted dummy copy, and also Jennifer Kyrnin’s Lorem ipsum dolor placeholder text – How to use Lorem ipsum text
  11. Link Rot: Are You a Culprit?

I have one general reservation when I’m researching anything at About.com:  articles aren’t dated. And since things do change over time, there’s the risk that the quality of the site’s intelligence may have eroded. That said, Jennifer Kyrnin’s work stood out – and my sense is that most of it is – as of this writing – very useful.

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