Dot Net Monkey

Smashing Magazine has released some PDF's with the good guff about web design and css.

• 35 Designers x 5 Questions - 35 designers. 5 questions. 5 precise answers. Result: 175 professional suggestions, tips and ideas from some of the best web-developers all around the world.  Available online, or download it in PDF.
• 70 Expert Ideas For Better CSS Coding - We’ve taken a close look at some of the most interesting and useful CSS tricks, tips, ideas, methods, techniques and coding solutions and listed them below. We also included some basic techniques you can probably use in every project you are developing, but which are hard to find once you need them. Available online, or download it in PDF.

Just thought I'd keep some links to web based javascript photo galleries.

CSS Play ~ Slideshow

Lightbox 2

The IE team has blogged about a bunch of strap-ons for Internet Explorer to enhance it's functionality.  Go have a look at their recommendations.

Personally I've been quite enjoying my IE7 experience.  At the moment my favourite feature is Ctrl-Q to get a preview of tabbed browser pages. This along with the Inline Search plugin, the Spelling Plugin and the various developer plugins makes a pretty compelling browser experience.  Your milleage may vary.

Bite Size Standards aims to offer concise web development tutorials, tips and tricks. Written by designers and developers who are passionate about web standards.

The site is a bit bare at the moment but promises to give a wonderful resource of standards coompliant tricks... oh, and they've got a funky dashboard widget also!

Are you a couch potato?  Do you want to learn ASP.NET 2.0?  Maybe these are just what you are looking for.

Microsoft has put together a bunch of resources for learning ASP.NET, amongst them is a video series focused on teaching specific ASP.NET technologies. 

Check it out

This site is a bunch of experiments with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).  Really handy stuff if you want to get an effect quickly.

Have a look.

Here is an entry in edevil's weblog to a bunch of Javascript libraries.  I don't use this stuff much myself but on the odd occassion that I need to create a web site it is handy to have a good Javascript library to help you get shit done, fast.

Have at the Javascript Libraries Roundup here.

The good folks over at 456 Berea Street have provided a end of year summary of the top articles on the 456 Berea Street Weblog.  There is some good stuff in there particularly relating to CSS and web design standards.

Here is the link 456 Berea Street highlights of 2005

There is also a link to last years best articles: 456 Berea Street highlights of 2004

YouSendIt is a web site that allows you to send large files to anyone without using email.  It's easy to use, no need to register and can use SSL if you are sending private information.  It has some other solutions in the same product range that allow you to send photo albums (really just a collection of files).

Here is how it works:

1. Choose who you want to send a file to. It can be anyone with an email address. You can specify multiple email addresses separated by commas.
2. Select a file to send. You can send photos, audio, documents or anything else. Your file will be stored by YouSendIt without ever filling up your recipient's mailbox.
3. Click on the Send button. YouSendIt will automatically email your recipient a link to your file stored on our server. Your file will be deleted after 7 days or 25 downloads, whichever occurs first.

The great thing about this site is that it is completely free and does not require registration.  God knows how they make any money.  Maybe they just use the information in the files for extortion -- After all they must see some pretty funny stuff pass by.

Just thought I'd post a link to this site which does reviews of website designs.  Very nice

http://www.unmatchedstyle.com/

Here is a good little article on providing help on web pages without resorting to popups.  It's nothing particularly now or exciting but I like this solution because of it's simplicity and it is also very intuitive for users.

• Ten CSS tricks you may not know
• Ten more css tricks you may not know