styleguide for Canvas including basic styles, scaffold/layout, components and design patterns - you can use the CSS classes in the code editor to jazz up the appearance of course pages without breaking baked-in functionality

"the ultimate, complete, final social media sizing cheat sheet" (until social media sites change it up again!)

fabulous cheat sheet for pixel perfect social media images

Do you ever find a YouTube clip you want to share because of the audio, but the imagery is boring or annoying or unnecessary? Here's how to embed that video as only an audio player. It's very easy.

If you care about Internet search, this is a good blog: "Internet News is written by Gwen Harris as a current awareness service for people wishing to stay abreast with developments affecting web searching. It is a companion to the Websearchguide tutorials and the online courses Gwen teaches."

I noticed a link to cogdogblog.com on December 10, too...

"In this post we release a yet another freebie: Academica WordPress Theme, a free WordPress theme designed specifically for educational websites such as universities, schools etc. It's a flexible and versatile free theme that can be easily customized and branded for any university, academy or non-profit organization. The theme is designed by ProudThemes and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. As usual, the theme is free to use in private and commerical projects."

All YouTube embed codes currently support HTTPS in addition to the standard HTTP. This page explains the details and gives instructions.

Fonts can be stored in the cloud and then implemented in designs. There are paid companies such as Typotheque and Typekit but if you don't want to pay you can take advantage of the excellent Google Font Directory. Today I'm going to show you how to use it and how to install and use the fonts on your WordPress website.

Ian Hickson's MINI FAQ ABOUT THE ALTERNATE TEXT OF IMAGES

W3C Working Draft: author conformance requirements for use of the alt attribute in HTML5 and best practice guidance for authors of HTML documents on providing text alternatives for images

In HTML authoring, there are very good reasons to include an alt attribute into every img element. The purpose is to specify a textual replacement for the image, to be displayed or otherwise used in place of the image. Thus, the prime rule is: Consider what the page looks like or sounds like when images are not shown. Then, write for each image an alt text that best works as a replacement. This document also gives more specific suggestions for simple, common situations, and some uncommon too. For content-rich images, it recommends explicit links to textual alternatives.