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After one year and five days of waiting: a brand new Vim release! This is a stable version. There are many bug fixes and updated runtime files. No amazing new features. Upgrading from a previous version is highly recommended... Note that Vim works on Linux, Windows, Macintosh, and other systems. This is an excellent free editor with syntax highlighting that is great for programming, text manipulation, and HTML editing. If you plan to be a sysadmin, you have to learn vi. I use it for scripting, text editing, and blog posting, among other things. read more | digg story

Google has some excellent webmaster resources, and some fun and useful gadgets that can be quickly added to a website or blog. Just as with any good design, remember not to over do it. http://www.google.com/webmasters/gadgets/ Here is what Google says about their gadgets: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enhance Your Own Website Add Google Gadgets to your webpage You can now use Google Gadgets to make your webpages even more interesting and useful to your visitors. For instance, you can add your city's current temperature or a quote of the day to your own page. Just pick the gadget you want from our directory of "Google Gadgets for your webpage," customize that gadget, and copy-and-paste the HTML into your page's source code. Then, reload to see the gadget on your page. Find gadgets for your webpage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you want to find something about cooking...

Sure we all want a nice looking website, but that doesn't mean you have to use lots of graphics and flash animation. It turns out, you'd be much better off using text instead of graphics. Here's the proof... Use text instead of graphics on your website Nowadays, it seems that every site owners knows how his site should look like: visually appealing, with a large amount of graphics (or even Flash) and, of course, with plenty of images of people, preferably women, preferably barely clothed (or naked). But reality is that what works isn't what people, who barely know anything about web design, think to work. read more | digg story

Eric Meyer, CSS Guru gives us a run down on some extreme CSS Reset. Think of these as a starting point for creating your own defaults, in addition to being a way to illuminate the nature of browser defaults. Simply the act of taking those defaults into consideration and thinking about them closely puts you ahead of 99% of your peers. read more | digg story

Someone put together a list of just about every color related resource (worth mentioning) in the known universe. Designers rejoice! http://www.colorschemes.org read more | digg story

...and maybe make some money. An article I posted on http://systemnotesorg.blogspot.com discusses how to get more traffic to your site. http://systemnotesorg.blogspot.com/2007/04/search-engine-optimization.html Now let's concentrate on how to set up a blog. With blogger, you don't have to know any html, but if you do, it helps. Getting Started First go to http://www.blogger.com and create a blog. If you already have a gmail account, you have completed the first step. It is really simple, and they walk you through it. Think of a name, and what you would like to write about. O.K., so you have a blog, now what? There is a book title that should help you keep on topic -- " No One Cares What You Had for Lunch " Then start posting. You can set up your blog to receive email, so posting is very easy. Just send an email to the address you set up under settings / email. Making money Well, keep posting something useful, but If you want to make money, don't wa...

Sure this blog is more about systems and programming than it is about marketing, but if you're building a website or blog, you probably have at least some interest in SEO ( Search Engine Optimization ). Basically, that means having other quality sites link back to your site, which is what makes it appear higher in search engines such as google Here are some things to check out: 66 Ways to Build Links in 2007 . If you are interested in making money from your blog, or learning how to get more traffic, check out http://problogger.net . Try a google search on seo, if you want to learn more. And don't forget about the excellent webmaster tools at google. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters and specifically, How can I improve my site's ranking? -- http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34432&hl=en