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• What I want from a restaurant website

Below are two different content management systems that definitely seem worth checking out. Halogy is a free open source system. Although it’s free to start out with, it looks like they charge for different modules.

Perch costs about $55 per website but sounds intriguing. Mostly just a small customizable solution. It sounds like it might be nice for some basic websites where other CMS solutions would be overkill.

ImageOptim is a great GUI tool for optimizing images. It uses AdvPNG, OptiPNG, PngGrush, JpegOptim and others. Perfectly simple. Don’t forget to download and install the provided service so that you can optimize images by using the context menu (right click).

Mark Boulton’s book Designing for the Web is now available free to read online. I’ve already got my PDF copy, but this is great that it’s online now. Check it out and don’t forget to also look at all the great Five Simple Steps books.

Here is a very nice visualization of support for the different HTML5 and CSS3 properties among various browsers. The visualization allows you to also look at different years from 2008-2010 which gives a great demonstration about how quickly browser vendors are finally moving to implement these standards.