If you haven't joined the mobile web yet, you should really start thinking about it. 66% of 24-35 year olds already own web-hungry smartphones in the United States. +Webdesigntuts shows us how you can have one piece #HTML / #CSS code for your menus for both your mobile and "full size" visitors.
Check it out here http://bit.ly/wlFH3i
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In the spirit of the latest "What People Think I Do / What I Really Do" meme (more at http://chzb.gr/A6accB), here is how #CMS developers view other developers and their favorite system. I think each CMS has it's own purpose and use but there no harm with a little fun 
Included: #WordPress , #Drupal , #Joomla , #WIX and #Sharepoint . Matrix image via +Ana Nakamura Bonus graph on web developers 
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If you're building a site with multiple languages on #Drupal you're going to need two things: translation of the interface and translation of the content. The +Lullabot people have you covered on that with an extensive guide on how to have your site interface and your nodes (content) translated. http://bit.ly/wFB5Vk
Side-note: Trying to post a comment on the lullabot.com article was caught by the spam filter and I couldn't thank the author for it. That said, trying to use the contact form to report the spam filter malfunction had the same result: my message triggered a spam filter… (cc +Jeff Robbins)
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One process often suggested to improve your search engine rankings are creating your #sitemap in XML format and submitting to search engines. #Google and #Bing are among the search engines that support the format. But a simple dump of every single page on your site might not be the best way to go about it.
You can use the XML Sitemap to guide the search engine bots to the page you really want to have traffic. +Ben Goodsell at +Search Engine Watch is analyzing the concepts and tricks behind this, check the full article here http://bit.ly/zTddWV
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After 15 years, at last there is a reason for the existence of Flash. It's called The Scale of the Universe by Cary and Michael Huang and you have to see it now http://bit.ly/wWGTVg
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Getting visitors to your site is one thing. But once they are there, you need to provide an exciting/useful/engaging/you-name-it experience if you are going to have results.
The good folks at conversionXL.com have a very thorough post on how to guide your visitors to the desired action (whatever that may be: sale, quote form, support information, etc). The article include actual examples on getting started with the described concepts.
Check the full thing at http://bit.ly/A5BbnO
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If you are in a situation that you need to show different content to your visitors depending on their location, an easy way to do it is with #PHP using MaxMind's IP database. MaxMind is offering commercial database of locations for IP addresses, but they also have a free product GeoLite Country http://bit.ly/yoPj7C
It is a downloadable data file (MaxMind provides monthly updates) that you can query through PHP or other languages or even an Apache module (MaxMind offers libraries http://bit.ly/yMsTP8 for several languages). If you don't like the idea of downloading a file every month there are other alternatives like GeoPlugin.com and IpInfoDB.com but I opted to skip the part of making network requests to a third-party server.
I've cooked up an example of querying the the data file and keeping the information on a cookie so that the total number of queries is smaller. Check it out here http://bit.ly/wBm7bm
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+George Aspland at +Search Engine Land has posted a comprehensive guide on improving your search engine ranking through careful curation of your content and code. His 12 steps:
1. Choose The Keywords To Focus On
2. Prioritize Your Keywords
3. Check That Important Content On The Page Is Getting Indexed
4. Ensure The Indexed Text Is Unique
5. Try To Improve The Search Listings For The Keywords
6. Update Or Add A Headline
7. Optimize Existing Text
8. Look For Text In Images
9. Possibly Add New Content On The Page
10. Develop Alt Tags for the Image Links
11. Update The HTML Page Title & Meta Description Tag
12. Increase Internal / External Links & Social Engagement
Full article here http://selnd.com/zXRr4k
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Just got this! http://t.co/GdRVvuWu Digging into WordPress +Chris Coyier and +Jeff Starr is 400 pages of WordPress knowledge. Just updated to cover WP 3.3 (and with a promise of free future updates forever!) this looks really good. Hopefully, I'll repost soon with a review of the book
Edit: just discovered the "All AJAX" theme included with the book. I always wondered if someone had done something like that. /installs now
Check out a free PDF sample and the full contents here http://bit.ly/xJsLHJ
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For your #WebDevelopment checklist: Always remember to buy that stock photo you are using on your front page before going live 
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This is the blog of Markos Giannopoulos, devoted to web development, technology, the internets, etc. I've been working on, in and around the web for the last 16 years. You can find me on Google+, LinkedIn and Facebook.
