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To quickly find out which country a country code top-level domain (ccTLD) belongs to, go to google.ccTLD and see what it says. Works in many cases still including China.

or how to tweet as a pantomime. TheMime shows how to get viral on Twitter with always posting nothing but three dots. TheMime certainly deserves his popularity on Twitter, as I haven't seen any other user with such a stunning consistency in high quality tweets.

The chart below created with TwitterCounter demonstrates that it clearly helps to be mentioned in tweets from Google and many others.

The logo of a Web site is not only important for branding but also as a navigational element, that many users expect to link to the home page. According to usability guru Jakob Nielsen the first of Ten Good Deeds in Web Design you can do is link your logo to the home page except you are on the home page.

Mr. Nielsen conducted many usability studies and has written groundbreaking articles and books on Web usability. Good reason for me to trust him when it comes to this topic, especially when it sounds completely plausible.

MediaWiki is the wiki software that drives one of the most popular sites on the Web Wikipedia. I would't say that Wikipedia looks ugly but it feels a bit moldy.

MediWiki also drives the jQuery documentation site which demonstrates that MediaWiki can look great. Before the recent redesign of jQuery.com the designers of the jQuery docs site already managed to create a unique look in contrast to 99.9% of the other MediWiki driven sites. Now they made it a blast, congrats!

According to Dries' State of Drupal 2008 presentation backed by a survey with 1367 participants the drupal.org redesign is a very important task for improving the user experience of the Drupal project as a whole.

In the current stage of the redesign process feedback from drupal.org users is essential. To participate the GDO Redesign group is a good starting point.