Just quickly stumbled upon this tool that allows you to use textareas within your forms, and dynamically change them into content editors ala word, etc.

Check it out – NicEdit.

Yes, IE6 was amazing, in 2001 the owners of end6.org proclaim, and yes - they are totally right.  They even provide a javascript that you can embed in your page, so that whenever a visitor with IE6 visits your page, the following warning sign appears:

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I’m always on the lookout for new fonts, they can say a lot more than just plain words alone.  Typography is an artform its-self, started by the newspaper industry carving out letters for the daily newspapers – most of today’s modern fonts owe it to these original purveyors of stylistic word-sculpting.

Taking a fresh look at things once in a while is a great thing, breaking away from the norms and “Web 2.0” as its coined is one of those evolutions in consciousness that was just waiting to happen (to this day we’re still waiting for Economy 2.0, since you can’t ignore to see the downturn kicking in).

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When designing a new website, where do you usually begin? 

Theres a few options these days, such as taking a template and customizing it, or finding a layout that you like online and adapting it. 

But what if you want to start from scratch?  I usually go to a website that i’ve done in the past and take the html headers from it, and copy it into a new html document, and start off with a blank css file.

But it seems that there are a few websites on the net offering default styles, somewhere to start off without cutting pasting and amending existing documents (stick that in your textpad clip library!)

Shapeshed go one step further than everyone else with a version, date, author, email, website and version history in their default css file!

Check it out .. Default Styles for CSS

I would say now, add a good CSS Reset to this and you’re laughing..