This is my “blogroll”: I read all of these blogs on a more or less routine basis and consider them worth recommending for one reason or another. They’re all well-written, feature interesting comments and articles, and are worth giving some time to.
The list includes search marketing blogs, web accessibility and general web development blogs – as well as a couple of forums which I can occasionally be seen at.
If you’re interested, you can search my blogroll through the Mojeek personal search engine. (This search service is shared with my search marketing blog, inter:digital strategies, and is branded with that.)
Blogroll
Roger Johansson discusses webstandards and accessibility issues.
The classic web-based magazine for web development issues.
Elizabeth Able on blogging, WordPress, and things Web.
Matt Bailey’s blog on accessibility and it’s relationship with website marketing. (I’m also a co-author.)
The Accessites accessible web design showcase advocates against the misguided notion that accessible doesn’t mean beautiful. I also write and grade sites here.
Accessibility reviews and commentary.
Cameron Moll writes about web development and graphic design.
Mike Cherim’s professional web design blog. A great guy, accessible web developer, and founder of Accessites.org.
Chris Hofstader, a blind software developer and formerly at Freedom Scientific, blogs on a wide variety of topics.
Derek Featherstone on Accessibility (and other things.)
Kim Krause Berg, founder of Cre8asiteForums, writes her thoughts on usability and the internet communications medium.
Dave Child, infamous creator of many useful cheat sheets, writes on web development topics.
Detailed specifications for HTML forms.
Not really kept up anymore, unfortunately, but Kevin Potts used to write on issues of running a graphic design business and other internet development topics.
Jack Pickard on accessibility, politics, etc.
Gez Lemon writes brilliant technical articles on accessibility issues.
An original web standards guru, Molly speaks around the world on web standards issues.
Robert Nyman on web standards and programming.
Jared Smith from Web Accessibility in Mind
Minnesota Web Resources
Accessibility Resources at UMD
The University of Minnesota at Duluth maintains an extensive resource of web accessibility and other web development resources.
Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association
Minnesota’s local professional association for internet and interactive marketing.
Lee Odden and his team cover search marketing issues and related news topics.
Twin Cities Web Design & Standards Meetup
A Minneapolis/Saint Paul Meetup group focused on web design with standards.
My Sites
My search marketing blog.
Blog of Science Fiction book reviews.
My environmental consciousness site.
Search Marketing
Barry Welford’s interesting thoughts on internet marketing concepts.
Blogging on a wide variety of topics from the moderating team at Cre8asiteForums.
Pierre Far’s blog covers a lot of ground – well-written and critical.
Yuri Filimonov offers advice on improving your website one piece at a time.
Although pay-per-click isn’t a huge focus for me, I do like to keep up with it. Jen Slegg is THE source for PPC marketing information.
Frequent tidbits on search marketing topics.
Andy Beal and crew on search marketing news and reputation monitoring.
Is Matt Cutts. If you’re in web development and you haven’t read Matt’s blog at some time, you should consider it.
It’s the official Google Blog. What else is there to say?
Lee Odden and his team cover search marketing issues and related news topics.
Jennifer Laycock, editor, and her crew of faithful small-business SEO experts.
Loren Baker and company’s search marketing news blog.
Danny Sullivan’s post-Search Engine Watch project. Lots of good stuff from some of the best minds in the business.
Barry Schwartz and company reporting search marketing news.
Aaron Wall is a prolific writer on search marketing. I mean PROLIFIC.
Bill Slawski writes on search marketing patents. If you want to get a sense for what the search engines might be doing in the future, this is where to go.
Nadir Garouche writing on…search marketing. Lately moving into mobile internet marketing, there’s some interesting stuff coming out of this blog.
Donna Fontenot’s seo tips, tricks and theories.
Rand Fishkin and crew write articles on search marketing and also keep you entertained…
Matt Bailey provides some great analysis of search marketing trends and theories.
Web Tools
View sites in alternate browsers.
Grayscale conversion tool for checking contrast.
Text-only browser emulator.
Site speed tester.
