Stuff.co.nz logo -- ANZAC Day

After we released the first logo St Patrick's Day, I am glad to show you the second special day logo -- ANZAC Day.

25 April is the anniversary of the landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps(ANZAC) at Gallipoli in 1915. On the first anniversary of that landing services were held throughout the country in remembrance of the 2,721 New Zealand soldiers who died during the eight-month Gallipoli Campaign. Since 1916 ANZAC Day has evolved to the observance we know today.

Google also released two different logos for both Australia and New Zealand.

New Zealand	Australia

Actually, today also is an important day to me, because today is my wedding day. I am getting married April 25 2009 in Xi'an. It is nothing to do with ANZAC day, because today is an auspicious day in Chinese calendar.

Search market share in China

       搜狗近年来一直在稳中前进，特别是2006年6月5日推出的搜狗拼音输入法目前已经成为国内用户最多、最成功的输入法，对搜狗的品牌提升起到了至关重要的作用。同时，搜狗的音乐搜索、图片搜索和地图搜索也一直保持着领先的优势。

　　此前，搜狐董事局主席张朝阳面对媒体时曾表达了对搜狗的期待，业界众多专家也表示，搜狗有可能成为搜狐公司的下一个畅游，按照目前的情况来看，搜狗的发展的确值得期待。

想不通的是，Google的用户只有第三以后的那些引擎的两倍???

Nate Koechley: Professional Frontend Engineering

Nate Koechley a senior frontend engineer at YUI Team Yahoo!, he gave a presentation on "Professional Frontend Engineering."

It covers the foundations of the discipline, some of its core ideas, and some of of its best practices. If you are looking to reset your own assumptions about "web development" or "frontend work"; If you are new to the discipline, or backend engineers transitioning to the frontend, this is also a fantastic resource to you.

Video can be watched here

Web Trends Map

信息结构公司iA 刚刚发布了最新的测试版网络趋势地图。该地图每年发布一次，形象地展示了重大网络趋势、产品、公司和人物。

今天该地图也包括了读写网，这让我们感到非常荣幸。你可以在Flickr上看到完全展开的地图，也可以在zoomorama.com看到可缩放地图。附录：2008年互联网发展趋势交通图的beta版本

Chinese Social Networking is Dominated by Local Players

百度清明节logo

自古以来，清明有扫墓祭祖的习俗。“清明时节雨纷纷，路上行人欲断魂。借问酒家何处有？牧童遥指杏花村。“ 轻轻拂去灰尘，撒上一壶清酒；绵绵春雨中，缅怀那些远去的故人。清明，更是踏青赏景的好时节。春暖花开，天清地明。满目充溢的，是崭新生命的力量。云淡风清的日子里，约三五好友外出赏春，放放风筝，荡荡秋千。在节奏飞快的现代社会，这些传承已久的朴素民俗，仍不失为放松身心的最佳选择。

April Fool’s joke on IE6

SaveIE6.com was put together as an April Fool’s joke by the uptime monitoring service Pingdom. Due to the tremendous interest it has received they have decided to keep the site up and running.

Here are some highlights:

These days we are inundated with bloated web browsers that overcomplicate our lives. However, there is one eminent exception: IE6. It has been around since 2001 and is still one of the most powerful and versatile browsers available.

This is why we want to achieve the following:

• Get everyone to use IE6
• Get IE6 ported to more platforms
• Get the W3C standard changed to fit IE6

There are a few selected quotes from the petition page, I especially enjoyed this one below, hope you enjoy the great feedback and for enjoying the irony!

Without IE6, a 40 hour web design project might only be a 30 hour web design project. Please don't put me out of work in this economy.

25 Advanced CSS Tips

如果你对 CSS 的掌握已经到了一定的贯通程度,那么你手中的 CSS 将会为你做很多高级的功能,甚至有时候 CSS 可以帮助解决之前靠 JS 才能解决的问题, 要知道,在 Web 开发过程中, 减少一段 JS 可是对 Web 的运行有足够大的减压作用的。25个 CSS 高级教程，让你更了解 CSS。

1. 纯 CSS 字体渐变和背景渐变

CSS Gradients using pure CSS

Background gradients and CSS

CSS Gradient Text Effect

Pure CSS Text Gradient

2. Z-Index 图像重叠

Understading Z-Index

CSS Z-index

3. CSS 边框创意

Create a Scalable Star using using CSS border

Border Slants

4. 超酷 CSS 效果 - 控制面板

Dashboard

5. 纯 CSS 创建 2D/3D 按钮

3D Rollover Button using CSS

How to make sexy buttons with CSS

CSS rollover buttons

6. Text Embossing/Shadow Technique With CSS

view plaincopy to clipboardprint?

Text Embossing

CSS Text Drop Shadows

1. text-shadow: 0px 1px 0px #e5e5ee;

7. Iconize Text links/Hyperlink with CSS

Add icon to the hyperlink.

Iconize Textlinks with CSS

8. CSS Curly Quotes

Curly Quotes with Pure CSS

Swooshy Curly Quotes Without Images

9. Using CSS Opacity for Various Cool Effects

A CSS only fly-out menu with transparency

CSS Menu using CSS opacity property

Opacity Background Blending Effects

Transparency Menu Watermark on an image

10. Blurry Background Effect

how to create a blurry background using CSS

11. CSS Parallax Effect

Examples of and How to Create the CSS Parallax Effect

A parallax illusion with CSS: The Horse in Motion

12.Create a Lightbox effect only with CSS

technique

13.CSS-Only Accordion Effect

create Accordion using CSS

14. Add grunge Effect to Text Using Simple CSS

tutorial

15.Create a Block Hover /Element Hover Effect

Learn how to create a block hover effect for a list of links

CSS element hover effect.

16. Simple Dither Effect using CSS

dither effect using

17. Create a liDock Menu

Horizontal Menus That Grow on You

18. CSS Hover Swap Effect

CSS swap hover effect

19. Polaroid effect using CSS

Polaroid-izing photos with CSS and one Image.

20. CSS 杂志



Create a Magazine Type layout Using CSS

21. CSS Hoverbox Menu


cool CSS Menu

22.CSS 标签切换


Create a Tabbed content.

23.CSS Magic with Fixed Background-attachment


shows a trick that reveals a magic

24. CSS 信息提示


Show a message when hovering over the links.

25. 纯 CSS 预加载效果

Add a “loading” icon to your larger images

World Map Turns Into 12 Chinese zodiac Animal Shapes

Twelve Animals is a creative project of Kentaro Nagai that uses the world map to form twelve different animals shapes representing the Chinese zodiac . If you are curious to know how the world map was transformed into animals shapes, check this presentation.

Google logo -- April Fool's Day

Today Google has released its April Fool's Day logo - "Gogole" and also launched different services for different countries. Such as 谷鸽鸟看(Google Pigeon) in China, 川柳 in Japan and gBall in Australia.

Go and check them out!