With the advent of CSS we knew that the visual aspect of HTML would be vastly improved. At least that was supposed to be the plan. We've seen it a lot with images and text, but I must say this is the first time that I've seen CSS used with forms in such a way. Smashing Magazine has an excellent list of CSS Based Forms, which give forms a modern new look.

I'm not sure how many of you actually gave thought to creating your own Image Gallery, I know I haven't. If I needed one I'd just use a prepackaged one. But that was because my application always needed an entire gallery. But if you just need to through up some pictures a CSS Image Gallery is the way to go. Why CSS? CSS is light and clean and it’s HTML standard.

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I'm not sure what exactly the entire package does, but this is something they demoed on the website. A beautiful AJAX site timer. It shows start time, connect time, time of first byte and time of last byte for every element on the page that it loads. Check it out. OctaGate SiteTimer

Funny as hell. I must admit, that part about Internet Explorer is so true, but what are you going to do? It’s all part of the job description.

You never really know when you'll need an icon do you? Here is a set of free icons for use. They are licensed under Creative Commons license so you can use them for whatever. [ ]1 Sweetie | Free icon set

Ok, It's been a long time in the making, I'll be the first to admit. This is a blog by a colleague of mine who shall remain nameless. There are some interesting tips on saving money and some cute lil' rants. Check it out: Save Money.

Some more very basic information on image optimization. If you’ve had some experience with Photoshop or even just some basic image editor you can skip this. This is for the people who upload a 2.5 MB image and use HTML tags to “reduce the size”. Topics Covered: Reduce the Image Quality Crop Images Resize Images Image Optimizing Tools Re-Using Images Choose the Right Image Format

Not much more to say than, here's the link. Dan at WebDeveloperNow, has a nice lil' basic CSS run down for beginners. Skip this if you’ve had to hack together some stuff before.