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Mark Pilgrim advocated minimalism - from the look of his site, can’t say he’s wrong!
I used to care much more for the look of my site, wanting something (and not quite knowing what). I spent a lot of time on CSS etc, but — at the time — never learned dynamic web techniques (well, I did start moving towards includes and CSS) nor got a CMS outside of WordPress. Eventually I got tired of the effort involved in updating everything. And stopped updating anything. In 2007 I finally started experimenting with PmWiki on my live site (I had used it at work and home as a CMS). And in 2009 made it the front-end for the whole site. But I’ve mainly left the display up to a fairly simple “skin.” I have some tiny urges to customize, but they’re much smaller and lower in priority than just about everything else.
Why the Lucky Stiff hashad a good-looking site, that doesn’t have a lot going on. mmmmm! UPDATE: as of August 19, 2009, even less going on, as he took down his entire web-presence. :::sigh::: perennially late to the party I am.
25+ Web 2.0 Generators to the rescue
“loading” GIF generator
3 CSS Coding Tips That Will Save You Hundreds of Wasted Hours
10 Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
A Closer Look At the Blueprint CSS Framework
various CSS things
box-model
JavaScript message-box with closebutton - CSS is important, here.
the 6 most important CSS techniques you need to know
10 CSS tricks
Assigning property values, Cascading, and Inheritance
what “!important” means
pure CSS alternatives to JS techniques
Message boxes and the like
message boxes via css and javascript
css message-box collection - links to some nice, small icons
Buttons
recreating the button via CSS and Java Script
Stack Overflow: How can I use google’s new imageless button? How could I reverse engineer or roll my own buttons that are similar?
Google’s Imageless Buttons Are A Semantic Mess! - a critique, which recco’s the top article in this list (recreating the button)
user-style to remove GMail’s gradient look - if that’s important to you.
Ancient History
a co-worker moved offices, and left a pile for scavengers. Amongst the crap (and a few gemstones) was a 2-volume boxed-set of SAMS’ “Teach Yourself (more) Web Publishing with HTML In A Week” “(more)” is for the second volume. Copyright 1995. what a hoot! In another 10 years, this will look like the Domesday Book. Only not as interesting.
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