Just quickly stumbled upon this tool that allows you to use textareas within your forms, and dynamically change them into content editors ala word, etc.

Check it out – NicEdit.

Yes, IE6 was amazing, in 2001 the owners of end6.org proclaim, and yes - they are totally right.  They even provide a javascript that you can embed in your page, so that whenever a visitor with IE6 visits your page, the following warning sign appears:

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When designing a new website, where do you usually begin? 

Theres a few options these days, such as taking a template and customizing it, or finding a layout that you like online and adapting it. 

But what if you want to start from scratch?  I usually go to a website that i’ve done in the past and take the html headers from it, and copy it into a new html document, and start off with a blank css file.

But it seems that there are a few websites on the net offering default styles, somewhere to start off without cutting pasting and amending existing documents (stick that in your textpad clip library!)

Shapeshed go one step further than everyone else with a version, date, author, email, website and version history in their default css file!

Check it out .. Default Styles for CSS

I would say now, add a good CSS Reset to this and you’re laughing..

CSS-Tricks.com posted this great-looking apple-like css menu, which uses unordered lists - the only problem with it is that it doesn’t work in Internet Explorer yet (damn!) but i’ll have a go later at fixing it myself




Now with AJAX and some CSS-Trickery perhaps the web is becoming just as good as desktop, if not better than it.. if it wasn’t for these cross-browser woes

Web-based Itunes anyone?