<p>Ah, long weekends are the best. I got a lot of freelance work done, and I’m hoping to finish up the couple of projects I am working on so that I can redesign my site. Here is what I found interesting this week:</p>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/26/how-simple-web-design-helps-your-business/">How Simple Web Design Helps Your Business</a>
<p>This is a list showing how some nice design decisions have helped these e-commerce sites.</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.digital-web.com/articles/web_design_by_designers/">Web Design by Designers</a>
<p>When award-winning design firms design their website, they should let their work be the focus of the site.</p>
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</ul><ul><li><a href="http://www.alistapart.com/issues/266">A List Apart: Issue 266</a>
<p>Aaron Rester discusses a new way of thinking when developing a site in <a href="http://www.alistapart.com/articles/mappingmemory">Mapping Memory: Web Designer as Information Cartographer</a>, and Dave Shea shows us how to add a little “flair” to CSS Sprites with jQuery in <a href="http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites2">CSS Sprites2 – It’s JavaScript Time</a>.</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/aug/28/internet.captcha">How Captcha was foiled: Are you a man or a mouse?</a>
<p>Spam is obviously one of the biggest issues on the web, but are we attacking it incorrectly with captcha? Some think we are: Matt Mullenweg’s answer is to focus on the content rather than the user.</p>
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