Let’s take a look at 53 CSS-based techniques you should always have ready to hand if you develop web-sites.

The world of standards-based web design and development has been undergoing something of a shake-up these past few days.

Personalize Leopard’s great new features, revert the annoying ones, or just get a taste of the things you didn’t know your Mac could do with our favorite Leopard tweaks.

The first incarnation of The Commons is a pilot project we’ve created in partnership with The Library of Congress.

Josh Catone credits Politweets for informing him that Senator Clinton won New Hampshire. Politweets told me the moment Fred Thompson dropped out of the race on January 22.

Sweet: The Graphic Beauty of the Contemporary Rock Poster features twenty-nine of the leading artists/groups of silk-screened contemporary rock posters, on view Wednesday, February 6 through Saturday, March 29, 2008.

Music blogger’s favorite albums of 2007; cultivated from 648 lists (via our own submission form and Largehearted Boy’s list).

On Saturday, April 19, 2008, hundreds of independently owned music stores across the country will celebrate “Record Store Day.”

Keith Abrahamsson, an A&R rep for New York-based indie label Kemado Records, recently launched the first all-digital reissues label.

Many of us have been using a good deal of jQuery plugins lately. Below I have provided a list of the 50 favorite plugins many developers use. Some of these you may have already seen, others might be new to you. This is just the first series , the second version will be coming soon, stay tuned and Enjoy!

Use of the Account Location Plugin.

Add Icons to your Textlinks with CSS

Now you can style both in this super easy and light-weight solution.

Mixx, to date one of the best-looking competitors to Digg, the preeminent chieftain of the user-submitted news aggregation world, has …

Welcome to the official Facebook Page of Facebook Music. Get exclusive content and interact with Facebook Music right from Facebook. Join Facebook to create your own Page or to start connecting with friends.

This demo shows how compound microformats can be used to progressively enhance HTML with semantic meaning.

Parallax scrolling is a psuedo-3D effect often used in side scrolling games to create depth. In this article Clearleft lead designer Paul Annett explains how he used the effect to great success on their newly launched Silverback site.

Event Sync is an application for OS X that allows you to sync your Facebook Events with iCal. Now you will never miss the next party, meeting, or any other event that is posted on Facebook.

Openid avatar system.

This tutorial describes one of my favorite techniques for ‘spicing’ up a photograph. This method is adapted from the color darkroom of old.

Activate The Death Ray is a Microformats and CSS demonstration site by Andy Clarke, part of the For A Beautiful Web series of web design and development workshops launching in 2008.

Somewhere between PSD and JPG, Photoshop is draining our colors of their life, like some horrible, RGB-stealing vampire.

If we’re all going to be disagreeing more, we should be careful to do it well.

FancyForm is a powerful checkbox replacement script used to provide the ultimate flexibility in changing the appearance and function of HTML form elements.

Okay here is the setup: Google Reader is ugly, but it works great as an online RSS newsreader. So what if I used Fluid.app to create a standalone Mac app and replace my desktop newsreader.

This is a list of helpful links for those interested in perusing a career in web design, graduating from design school, or trying find a web design job.

Should your company offer an API for outside developers to build on? Should you engage in one of the fast growing developer platforms or with another company’s API? …

Many people ask me how I choose to address an situation where all content in a web should be available without JavaScript, but certain parts hidden if JavaScript is enabled.

Yesterday I came across a slightly mysterious website — a collection of Polaroids, one per day, from March 31, 1979 through October 25, 1997.

Trulia Snapshot allows you to browse photographs and details of properties for sale in the United States.

The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libraries.

Here is my process for modifying “rigid body / non folding” SX70’s to use 600 intregal film packs.

Internet startups are generally as successful as a nerd in a singles bar. Ventures that get off the ground rarely get knee-high. Why?

Gabe unleashes some awesomeness on alla'ya’ll in the form of an OS X app for connecting to and sharing stuff via Amazon’s S3 service.

Paste hereby celebrates the record store, bestowing superlatives on a few of America’s finest. May they live long and loud!

Reporter tours the production facilities of United Record Pressing and gets a firsthand look at how LPs are made.

The world’s largest social music platform. Show off your taste, see what your friends are listening to, hear new music, get personal radio, recommendations, and downloads, all for free.

Jeremy sums it up nicely.

VPC Hard Disk Image for testing websites on IE on Windows XP SP2.

Unit PNG Fix, from Unit Interactive’s Labs, is a comprehensive, yet light-weight png fix built in javascript. It’s free to download and use as you like!

It’s here. The highly anticipated premiere of Get Your War On, the new animated series from 23/6, based on the popular comic by David Rees.

A demonstration of Superfish – a jQuery plugin that creates Suckerfish-style dropdown menus with added features.

In the competitive social news market, Digg has gotten a lot of attention for its recommendation engine and Mixx continues to release new features (it has launched communities …

What if Barack Obama turned to former President Jed Bartlet of the “West Wing” for some fatherly wisdom?

For A Beautiful Web is a series of web design master class training workshops covering topics including visual design for the web, best-practice XHTML mark-up and CSS, Microformats and practical web accessibility design and techniques.

Find out what it should cost you to repair or service your 2007 Mazda MAZDA3 in your town. Review the automobile maintenance schedule for your car at DriverSide.com.

CSS Browser Hacks For Firefox, Opera, Safari & Internet Explorer - From NealGrosskopf.com

The New York Times has a series of APIs. Who knew?

jRails is a jquery drop-in replacement for prototype/scriptaculous in Rails.

IE7 is a JavaScript library to make Microsoft Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser. It fixes many HTML and CSS issues and makes transparent PNG work correctly under IE5 and IE6.

In this article I will propose a new method for organizing CSS that better maps to how popular web application frameworks are built; and I’ll also provide some helpful code to make this easy to accomplish. The examples I use are based on Ruby on R… More

I’d call myself an “intermediate” jQuery user and I thought some others out there could benefit from all the little tips, tricks and techniques I’ve learned over the past year. The article also ended up being a lot longer than I thought it was going to be so I’ll start with a table of contents so you can skip to the bits you’re interested in.

Live Query utilizes the power of jQuery selectors by binding events or firing callbacks for matched elements auto-magically, even after the page has been loaded and the DOM updated.