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When editing stuff in WordPress, I was always so annoyed that I could not tab in the textareas. Tabinta Firefox plugin to the rescue.

Jason Fried discusses the many design iterations for the Highrise signup chart. What they ended up with is very appealing and accomplishes they goals they seemed to set out.

This WordPress cheat sheet seems like it could be pretty useful. I think there are some important functions that are left off though, and it’s definitely geared more towards beginners.

Inspired by Jason Santa Maria’s “art directed” site, Noel Jackson decided to create an art direction plugin for WordPress, which allows you to add per post styling. Interesting.

A video of Jeffrey Zeldman presenting his talk on Understanding Web Design. I saw this presentation at An Event Apart, and I am still amazed at how great of a speaker he is.

When users use Gmail in Internet Explorer, a red link appears at the top right of the page that says “Get faster Google Mail”. The link takes you to a page suggesting faster browsers. Love it.

Jason Santa Maria wonders if print really is nearing its death. I still can’t imagine reading a book online though.

I love how I can use jQuery to solve all of my problems. When I was working on a website for The Lighting of the National Christmas Tree, I had to create a page that displayed all of the ornaments. Thank god for the jQuery clone() method, which saved me loads of time and effort. The Situation I was on a tight deadline, and had to figure out some way to layout all of the state ornaments. Not to me…

Well, I finally think my redesign is good enough for the public eye. There are definitely some tweaks that I need to make, but it’s good enough for now. I plan on tweaking stuff for the rest of the week and doing some clean up on some of the older articles. This goal of this design was to adhere to a very strict grid, and I used the 16 column 960 grid. View Grid (click on the grid to remove it…

This issue has 2 excellent articles focused on content strategy. “A website without a content strategy is like a speeding vehicle without a driver.”