Got a sizable amount of awesome links to dump on you today. Crazy, mad, ridiculously busy, that has been my last few weeks. There. That’s my excuse for infrequent posts. :) Onward…

Seth’s Blog: Things to ask before you redo your website – Great philosophical questions to answer for really anything you build on the web.

SEO

8 Ways to Target Keywords for Ranking and Usability | 10e20 – Very good summary of some important SEO concepts.

Web Design

CSS Sprites – Online CSS Sprite Builder / Generator – An easy generator to create CSS sprites to speed up your site. Google uses them like so…

Fresh Free High-Quality Icon Sets « Smashing Magazine – Grab some free high quality icons. I’m addicted to collecting these. Need any icons, just ask…

WordPress

300+ Resources to Help You Become a WordPress Expert | Webdesigner Depot – Good grief! This is an overwhelming, yet VERY helpful post.

How To Integrate Facebook With WordPress « Smashing Magazine – Talk about providing value! Smashing Mag never disappoints. I have been needing this info!

Themes

The Digital Business Card WordPress Theme – Human3rror – I Break Stuff. 

Plugins

WordPress › Socialize « WordPress Plugins – Choose which social media icons to include on each post. Great idea.

WordPress › After the Deadline « WordPress Plugins – High quality spell / grammar checking tool for WordPress. Recently bought by Automattic, owner of WordPress. 

WordPress › RSS Cloud « WordPress Plugins – New tech to make delivery of your RSS feeds quicker. Similar idea to PubSubHubbub. (Whose name always cracks me up)

ShopperPress – WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin – Another WordPress e-commerce plugin that looks promising. I wonder how it compares to WP-e-commerce or Shopp, among others.

Bonus

45 Brilliant Examples of Photo Manipulation Art | Noupe – fun post!

(Heads up: I’m hard at work on a huge post on WordPress plugins I’ve used)