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Today my site got the absolute best comment I’ve read in a while from someone known as “Bitchy Designer”. Very cute little message at the top of your site about how my browser sucks….yes…I’m surfing right now in IE when I just happened to stumble across your site. I’m usually in FireFox. I know IE [...]

After receiving several email requests from visitors asking for vertical menus I decided to create 14 free vertical menu designs. You may download the entire set and use any way you see fit. Like the last two sets of menus these can be used for commercial or private use. Have fun with all the menus. [...]

Due to overwhelming response concerning my first set of free menus, I created twelve more CSS navigation menus. You may download the entire set and use any way you see fit. All the menus can be used for commercial or private use. Have fun! If you use the menus let me know, I’d love to [...]

These eleven CSS navigation menus are created using the Sliding Doors technique, and will even work in everyone’s favorite browser Internet Explorer. You may download the entire set and use any way you see fit. You may want to clean up the stylesheet, or alter the menu graphics to suit your needs. All the menus [...]

Today many talented designers taking part in CSSReboot launched their new designs and redesigns. There are tons of great designs, and lots of people trying new things. I like seeing people break away from the boring, bland traditional layouts. I thought I would make a list a few of my favorites. Feel free to share [...]

Early this morning I received an email from someone with some info about the website that had been hotlinking some images, and sporting a very similiar layout to my site. He explained that the site in question was an “affiliate” of their site, and that they had no idea it was going on. He informed [...]

A few days ago while browsing through my logs I noticed an odd address listed. Upon futher investigation, it seems that a small Japanese porn site (name withheld for the time being) had been using a very familiar looking website, and had been hotlinking some images off of my server–Layout images, not Japanese porn images! [...]

I was reading an interesting article the other day about Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes. I must say I agree with about 8 out of the 10 points made, but have never seen that much use with a personal blog having a long about page. I also don’t think an author photo is [...]

This set of twenty-five free icons can be used for application toolbars, blogs, web applications, anything you like. I’d love to see your results if you do use them. These are monochrome pixel icons saved in .gif format with a transparent background.

Creating a stylesheet for print is fairly simple to do for anyone who has even a little experience playing with CSS. Most smaller blogs I run across have no printing styles. A print stylesheet is an entirely separate set of styles that are called once someone decides to print your website. If you print out [...]