Here are some links that provide food for thought:

Web Design Principles

Smashing Mag - 10 Principles of Effective Web Design

The 6 Phases of The Website Design - this is a very good and succinct summary of the web design process.

Seth's Blog - Eye Tracking Rules (or what people look at on a website page).

How Little Do Users Read? - Jakob Nielsen thinks that the average user only reads 28% of text on a web page.

Simplicity is startingly simple cartoon.

Business

Freelance Switch is an excellent blog (and podcast) about running a freelance business (or any business for that matter).

37 Signals are a marvelous company with a marvelous philosophy which you can see in their original manifesto from 1999.

They also make web based software that is simple to use and highly effective. I use Highrise every day to make notes about client conversations and things to do. It is invaluable to helping me run my business.

They also have Basecamp which is a highly effective project management and collaboration tool.

The Shane & Peter Blog write consistently inspirational articles. I especially like this one.

Keeping Track

..... of your bookmarks: I use the better looking Magnolia, but Delicious is more popular and perhaps easier to use.

..... of your RSS Feeds: I use the lovely Net News Wire which syncs between my desktop, my iPhone and online. Google Reader isn't bad either.

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