Over the past few months, iFilm, a site with free streaming videos, has been undergoing incremental changes. Although it's still a bit garish, the design has received some nice esthetic as well as important structural changes that make it easier to use as well as slightly more attractive. iFilm's …

Over the past few months, the news site Salon.com has felt like it was slowly falling apart around the edges. There was the same great content, but the website itself was becoming a mishmash of not-quite-working parts. There are simultaneously two main page layouts that change per section, header …

Oh, how many times have I wanted a high-res version of a browser window to frame vector mockups of a website? Well... lots of times! I was just pointed to this fantastic free vector drawing of the Safari browser window designed for just this purpose. It's a 600kb Illustrator file with a nicely …

I've just finished reading Dan Cederholm's latest book Bulletproof Web Design. The book essentially teaches techniques for using clean HTML and CSS to build robust websites — designs that survive user manipulation, that elegantly degrade with missing technologies or features, and which are always …

About a month ago, Amber Macarthur, a host on the television program Call for Help, contacted me and asked me to do a really short part on their show about favicons. Anyway, it was fun to tape a little segment with her co-host Leo Laporte about what favicons are, why you might want to have one on …

Luckily up until this point of my web development career, I have never used a wysiwyg or visual editor to build HTML and CSS. I literally haven't even installed one on my computer until last week.  •  However, I'm currently working on a fairly simple project for a client where they'd like to …

Over the past couple of months, I've been working with Kevin Rose on his enormously successful new venture Digg.com — a news aggregation website with a twist. Digg is sort of social bookmarking mixed with peer reviewing, so someone submits a link to a technology story they thought was cool and, if …

Here's yet another installment of favicons to add to the ever-growing original collection. Again, there are some really fine examples of design in an incredibly constrained space. I especially like the US Airways icon which is an elegantly simple scaled-down version of their already fine emblem …

Before I get this review of Dave Shea's book The Zen of CSS Design started, let me get an important disclosure and a shameless name drop out of the way as they kind of go together anyway. I had the good fortune of attending the FITC conference here in Toronto back at the end of April where Dave …