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Let’s face it: form elements au naturel are NOT pretty. So what do we do with them?

We add a border thickness here, a border color there, leaving the whole thing largely unchanged. And still ugly. Time to change that.
I’m going to use the Tableless CSS Forms code provided by DynamicDrive’s CSS library [...]

CSS Naked is a standards-awareness initiative led/organized by Dustin Diaz. On the specified date, April 9th, all participating websites will strip their sites of their CSS, allowing the world to see the underlying clean-code usability:
The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic [...]

Think you got what it takes to slice up a PSD file into a valid and usable (X)HTML template? Then check out CSS Off, a contest that gives you the opportunity to do just that. At one minute past midnight CST on April 5, a PSD file will be uploaded for contestants to [...]

Update 8/17/09: I’ve installed the SyntaxHighlighter Evolved wordpress plugin, which not only highlights code, but also gives access to plaintext source and copy-to-clipboard functionality.
After the upgrade to WordPress, I haven’t updated the theme to include this feature. I may just stick to code highlighting for now.
I’ve employed a bit of progressive JS here on [...]

In my Advanced Web Design class at school, my professor asked us to post what we thought defined a well-designed website. I thought I’d share my answer here. I’m sure he wasn’t expecting anything so involved as this
“What makes a well-designed website?” That’s quite a question.
As a dabbler in web [...]