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Site Design: Pretty vs Ugly?

Design is not decoration. Usability has nothing to do with prettiness or ugliness. Jason Santa Maria puts an end to the discussion, FINALLY. Link.

Web 2.0 Logo Typography

In the effort to create something “NEW!!!!!”, it seems that the same solutions are being used and re-used. Link.

CSS Compressor

Shrink your CSS files and speed load times. Link.

Sliding Doors

An oldie but goodie from A List Apart. Link.

CSS Styled Bar Graphs

Nifty stuff. Link.

The Path to Intelligent HTML

To CMS or not to CMS, that is the question. Link.

Hierarchy and Focal Point

Left to right, top to bottom, big and small. Link.

Eyetracking on Webpages

Suprise! People start at the top left of web pages; to make people read instead of scan, make the type smaller; despite that, people don’t read everything on the page; people tend to ignore ads… etc. etc. etc. Link.

Clockr

A clock built from changing photos of numbers culled from Flickr. Link.

25 Design / WebDev Sites

…That you shouldn’t have missed in 2005. Useful stuff for making better web pages. Link.