Quicklinks

The 7 CSS Hacks that we should use
Pixel-perfect cross-browser CSS designs

Advancing Advanced Search
Advanced search is the ugly child of interface design -always included, but never loved

Dockulicious
Tired of the regular Mac OS 10.5 Leopard dock? Download and submit your own docks!

Stack overlays
Overlaying icons (drawers) for your leopard stacks

glTail.rb
View real-time data and statistics from any logfile on any server with SSH, in an intuitive and entertaining way.

Modern Pillow Fight
Lovely concept for your home-cinema room!

Undo — Not Confirmation — End of Discussion
A great article on providing undo functionality instead of confirmation!

Why Microsoft must abandon Vista to save itself
Vista will bring the software giant to its knees

Tripoli CSS
A generic CSS standard for HTML rendering

HTML. An alternative to Word
Just another reason to get rid of MS Word

Blueprint
A CSS framework which aims to cut down on your CSS development time.

YSlow for Firebug
Yahoo’s YSlow plugin tells you why your site is slow

140 Named Colors
A handy reference list of all 140 browser-supported named colors.

Brusheezy
Great collection of Photoshop Brushes and Patterns

Fighting Spam with CSS
an interesting approach (honeypot) for fighting spam with nothing more than CSS

Lightweight Image Gallery
Lightweight image gallery with thumbnails that doesn’t require any server-side scripting.

Private Javascript
Learn how to create private methods in Javascript by taking advantage of closures.

How to Defeat Comment Spam
Thomas describes perfectly well a set of accessible ways to defeat comment spam

The importance of a semantic URL
A great article on the readability of URLs

dotMobi Mobile Web Developers Guide
A freely available guide for mobile design by Blue Favor

DOMAssistant
Simple but yet powerfull assistant for your DOM scripting

Color in Motion
An animated and interactive experience of color communication and color symbolism

Bad Usability Calendar 2007
Twelve examples of bad usability in calendar format

Printer icons: Design by habit
A great discussion about the meaning and history of the printer/copier icons

BumpTop 3D Desktop Prototype
Manipulate your files as if they were physical objects on a desk

jQuery 1.1
The best javascript library gets faster and smarter

Apple iPhone is cool, but where is my keypad?
Touch-screen interface may look impressive but lacks of tactile feedback

Kuler
Explore, create and share color themes for your creative projects

Wall Calendar
Create your wall calendar with style

Internet Explorer and the CSS box model
An excellent analysis of W3C and IE box model by Roger Johansson

Lexus Self-Parking “Usability” Test
Evaluating the self-parking service of Lexus

Google Web Toolkit
Build AJAX applications in the Java language

Audio captchas when visual images are unusable
Finally, accessible captchas are available by Google

Now ‘that’s’ how to SPAM
An example of clever “spam”

Design for Browser Size Not Screen Size
The number of users with large screens is growing, but they don’t always maximize their browsers

Preaching: Google is blind!
Learn how Google “sees” your website - presented as a simple dialogue

Writing as third order experience
Article by Alan Dix in Interfaces, Summer 2006

CSS: Browser testing order
Andy Clarke shares the CSS browser testing order of Stuff and No Sense team

Inline elements and padding
Understand why the padding is rendered in unusual way for inline elements.

Useful tips for writing efficient CSS
Jonathan Snook shares some of his CSS habits