What's exciting is determining which framework to mass produce in little time for your nifty new sites.

Released just yesterday, BluePrintCSS 0.7 Framework

Yes I do like Yahoo's YUI CSS Grids, although from 1st impressions, BluePrint is showing less overhead, fewer files and simple enough to work with.

Based on developer/designer reviews, BluePrint is worth experimenting with.

Nifty WordPress BlueprintCSS theme to preview ...

Would you really need over 120 social bookmarking sites to bookmark to?
Not really, but it's nice to know what is really 'out there'!

"... social bookmarking can introduce a site to the search engines, as in some cases, people may find and bookmark a site or a site’s internal pages before a search engine can find those pages via another form of inbound link ..."

From the search engine journal ...

Benefits? Deeper indexing, indexed faster (yes if everyone is bookmarking & tagging it), categorization ...

What tool to use for your blog or website?

I've tried many, some in PHP where you build the bookmark links yourself ... who's got time?

Here's a nice little javascript one (with stats too!) that you simply copy & paste
http://www.addthis.com/
no obligations either

Implementation

Here's a simple example of how these buttons can be integrated in to a website
Post your articles here ...
Notice the variations in button types on the category and article pages!

Recent article in the National Post

"Putting up a good, well-designed Web site is probably the most critical thing a small or medium-sized business can do .... Everyone goes online first to do their research, regardless of whether they buy online. If you are not present on the Web, you are making a huge mistake. We simply no longer live in a time where we can say, eh, who needs the Web?"

a few additional excerpts:

Train users to keep coming back That means keeping the site active by offering fresh content with valuable information and insights. The more often you add new information, the more that raises your ranking among search engines and the easier it is for people to find you. "One way to do this is to start a newsletter campaign,"

affiliate programs:

"There are other people out there who may be able to sell your product/service better than you can," Mr. Joel says. "Contact them and make them an affiliate. They get a commission for whatever they sell from their site and all of a sudden, you have a lot of sales agents out there doing business in the digital world for you."

Full story here ...

Social bookmarking has become a major/minor strategy for some SEO optimizers.

Why do I need another bookmarking tool?!?

I already have IE & FireFox collectible all these things for me, plus URLs saved who knows where.

Del.icio.us has been around for ages (in internet terms), why create another password and such.
Once you get your head around it, it becomes a simple and easy to use tool that you can simply post from you browser.
Best of all for anyone getting creative with RSS feeds, tags can be created for groups of site and distributed who knows where ... potential here
Example:
Here are a few SEO links I have (more to come). Notice the RSS icon where one can feed out the entries to blog postings and such

Recent announcement from Joomla CMS (Jan 22/08) for Joomla 1.5.

Excellent templates for the 1.x version, but not much for ver 1.5 ... yet!

We'll see what examples come up in the DP Forums for Joomla 1.5 templates

Quick search in Google comes up with FREE templates from the following site:
http://www.siteground.com/joomla-hosting/joomla-templates.htm

Yahoo rejects Microsofts $44M bid - Yahoooo!

Yahoo's board is considering the radical move of outsourcing the company's search advertising business to Google

On to YABS (Yet another bookmarking service)

What if you could bookmark all your websites and provide an RSS feed for others to view? Potential here.
What if you could also 'TAG' the site with keyword related to the content - promising as well.
Various online social bookmarking service out there (we'll get to that later as well)
How about Yahoo MyWeb 2.0
- Save your bookmarks in one place
- Share and tag your bookmarks for others to see
- SEO potential?

A recent review from PCMagazine here ...
Technorati Profile

Tip - place your sitemap.xml file in your robots.txt file

All search crawlers recognize robots.txt, so it seemed like a good idea to use that mechanism to allow webmasters to share their Sitemaps. You agreed and encouraged us to allow robots.txt discovery of Sitemaps on our suggestion board. We took the idea to Google and Microsoft and are happy to announce today that you can now find your sitemaps in a uniform way across all participating engines. To do this, simply add the following line to your robots.txt file:

Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml

Learn more ...
http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000437.html/

Scratching my head on XML sitemaps again. Yes I've written them before, but now am writing a little script to automate the process. (Remember ... it's all about automation & making your life easier)

What it is?

A Google sitemap is a file which contains URLs and some additional information for all public pages or documents of your website.

So here's a quick update, a so called 'cheat cheet' for Google sitemaps. These links should get you started in the right direction.

Make sure you have a Google Webmaster Tools account

Here's a recent FAQ post from Google Webmaster blog on sitemaps
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/01/sitemaps-faqs.html

Sitemap protocol
http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php

Validating your XML sitemap
http://www.w3.org/2001/03/webdata/xsv

Nice & simple class for creating xml sitemaps with PHP
http://www.idealog.us/2006/09/php_class_for_c.html

Gracias!

Wonder if Microsoft had Yahoo has an entry in their dynamic CRM system?

View presentation ...

More about dynamic CRM w/ Outlook

Simple rules for website developers building performance based websites.
Why build a shopping cart e-commerce website that takes forever to load?

Caching, bandwidth issues, HTTP requests, script execution & more ...

Why is my page slow?
YSlow

"At Yahoo, our users are #1"