A FRAMEWORKS FOR DESIGNERS

A FRAMEWORKS FOR DESIGNERS | A good and very useful article for designer.

These days, “framework” is quite a buzzword in web development. With JavaScript frameworks like the Yahoo User Interface library, jQuery, and Prototype getting a lot of attention and web application frameworks like Rails and Django getting even more, it seems like everyone is using some kind of framework to build their sites. But what exactly is a framework? And are they only useful to programmers, or can we web designers benefit from the concept, as well?

The bottom line is that we web designers, just like our friends in the programming world, tend to repeat ourselves often. We find ourselves resetting the browser default styles, setting up a baseline grid and writing CSS for navigation tabs over and over again—on almost every project. Taking a bit of time out to abstract some of these idioms into a framework that you can utilize on every site you build will get you off to a faster start, make for easier maintenance, and help the other designers on your team understand the decisions you made. With a bit of care, these benefits can be realized without adding bloat or hurting the performance of a website.
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GOOGLE WEBMASTER GUIDELINES

GOOGLE WEBMASTER GUIDELINES is list of guideline/hint for a webmaster who want their website more easy to find and indexed by Google, it's covers Design and Content Guidelines, Technical Guidelines, and Quality Guidelines. This is very important to us as web designer, because the goal of making website is not just how to make the website looks beautiful, but also how to make website easy to find via search engine. Yes, this is may be webmaster job, but i think webmaster, webdesigner and web owner together make this work, and sometimes webdesigner also as a webmaster :), right ? .

Following these guidelines will help Google find, index, and rank your site. Even if you choose not to implement any of these suggestions, we strongly encourage you to pay very close attention to the "Quality Guidelines," which outline some of the illicit practices that may lead to a site being removed entirely from the Google index or otherwise penalized. If a site has been penalized, it may no longer show up in results on Google.com or on any of Google's partner sites. (Google Guidelines