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Portable/Backup Hard Drive Recommendations

Jodie and I are looking into getting an external drive for our home network — something we can put images and music on, that sort of thing, and free up hard drive space on our computers. Here are some recommendations and advice:

Link: Portable Hard Drive Recs | Ask Metafilter.

"I would like to get a 250GB portable hard drive to dump my RAW and PSD files and my music files into so as to free up space on my main computer hard drive"

Ask The Readers: Do You Handwrite HTML?

I hand-write HTML and CSS, but I'll concede that WYSIWYG editors have come a long way. However, I'll always maintain that you've got to know how to write CSS and HTML by hand, or at least understand what all the tags and properties mean, should you have to "look under the hood". Looks like a lot of developers and designers agree:

Link: Ask The Readers: Do You Handwrite HTML?.

"Most web page authoring software like Dreamweaver—or even blog publishing systems like Blogger or WordPress—all come with WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) mode, which formats web content without exposing the HTML and CSS behind it. But even in 2008, lots of web authors turn off WYSIWYG and just hand-code their own markup—even at the NY Times"

Stunning Pictures and Photos from Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine is one of my favorite online publications. And this post, from Monday, contains some of the most breathtaking photos I've ever seen.

Link: (Really) Stunning Pictures and Photos | Monday Inspiration | Smashing Magazine.

"Below you’ll find 50 brilliant photos and stunning pictures — some pictures tell stories, some are incredibly beautiful, some are funny and some are very sad"

Are Your Images Appearing in Google Image Search?

Images are becoming more and more important in search, so site owners and marketers are getting savvier about making sure their images are showing up in Google Image Search:

Link: Check if Your Images Appear on Google Image Search.

"So if your images are not getting indexed, check your robots.txt file to make sure it is not blocking the access to them"