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SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a delicate science that requires many things to work together ir order to be effective. One of those things is the sitemap, which you can think of as an "index" of your site: it's a document that will tell the search engines where to find the different parts of your website, and that makes sure that the engines don't forget to parse the latest data you have uploaded in your pages.

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RSS feeds and XML are great things. Through the use of standard APIs, they allow you to pull out data from any website that supports these protocols, and reuse the collected material in your own applications. But what if you want to do the same with a website that has neither RSS feeds, XML, nor a dedicated API ? Well, you use dapper!

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Every month, the guys from Smashing Magazine dig the web for the nicest free fonts. After the link, you'll find the march set.

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When you think of javascript frameworks, you think Prototype, Mootools, JQuery or YUI. But hopefully, the web 2.0 world is moving and changing fast, and new players show up everyday. So now, when thinking javascript framework, you'll have to think Ext JS as well.

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When it comes to vector drawing, there isn't much choice available: only a few big names come to mind, like Adobe Illustrator, Adobe FreeHand, Corel Draw or Microsoft Expression Graphic Designer. All these applications are well known, with a strong reputation and a long list of success stories. The downside is, as always, the price — often quite high — that you have to pay to get your hands on these.

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Google launches a new activity called Google App Engine that actually works as an application cloud service. It provides the environment, the infrastructure and the storage needed to develop and deploy new applications. In other words, it's designed to completely house your project, and to integrate easily with Google services. It's been opened up to the first 10,000 developers that request an account — free of charge. And, in the pure Google-style, it's expected to remain free — at least to some extent.

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There are a multitude of date-picker scripts available on the internet but, with only a few exceptions, they all require either the use of a nasty pop-up window or the inclusion of an embedded JavaScript block within the HTML. That's no good practice.

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Bringing quality to the community, as they always do, Smashing Magazine released a free RSS/Feed icon set (designed by Dirceu Veiga from Brazil). The set contains 8 icons which you can use for private and commercial projects, blogs and web-sites for free. The icons are available for both Mac and Win-users in resolutions 16×16px, 24×24px, 32×32px, 48×48px, 128×128px, 256×256px and 512×512px.

Those guys love high-quality freebies. Over the last years, they've featured a number of designers and developers who released their work for free. Every release helps to make the Web a nicer place, which is why they support designers and challenge them to release something for free in order to be featured on Smashing Magazine. And the results are quite often pretty impressive.

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