Gotta remember this great article from Smashing Magazine when doing the WPA Council website redesign this spring: How To Use Help Elements To Improve Your Designs.

This is upgrade to Drupal 5.1 weekend. After working on Kairosnews, I decided to retheme and upgrade this site. I've still got some fine tuning to do (alignment issues, problems with background matching and text replacement, etc.), but I really like how this design turned out.

I don't know that I can't live without all 53, but this a great collection of various CSS techniques that every web designer should know about.

In part 2 of their "Using open source software to design, develop, and deploy a collaborative Web site," IBM developerWorks has posted a great tutorial on analysis and design of putting together a website. I will probably use this in my writing for the web class in the fall.

I've suspected this was true for a couple of years now and have been designing websites with this in mind. Research data from OneStat.com indicates that 1024 x 768 is the most popular screen resolution in use by computer users with 1280 x 1024 coming in 2nd and 800 x 600 3rd.

There are some comments on Digg which suggest we should keep designing for 800x600 since many users don't browse the web with the window open to full screen.

At first glance, WellStyled.com's Color Scheme Generator 2 [EN] seems to be just another useful web design color palette tool. But this tool includes an extra accessibility feature. The pulldown menu on the bottom right will adjust the selected color palette to demonstrate how the color scheme will display given various degrees of color blindness.