There’s various methods to create equal length columns in a layout. It’s not trivial, but it is possible.

• the long explanation
• the fake way
• a briefer exposition

The Venture Skills Blog 5 CSS Fonts & Typography Tips «

Particletree » Rediscovering the Button Element gives some advice on how to make nicer looking, more consistent buttons with the <button> element.

Color Schemes, Color Palettes, Color Theory gives lots of online tools to explore colours.

The Venture Skills Blog Top 5 CSS layout tips « a great guide to CSS layout and links to some awesome layouts.

Digital Web Magazine – HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web gives a good explanation of where HTML and XHTML are going. Explains “tag soup” parsing pretty well, why XML isn’t the answer to everything on its own and why standards are good, but only a partial fix.

The Venture Skills Blog 5 Accessible and pretty CSS tips «: lays out a list of nice visual effects which are still accessible for visually impaired people.

In Particletree » Breaking The Rules, Ryan outlines some places where normally sensible rules are better broken.

Best Practices for Stylizing and Customizing Links in CSS > Anchor Elements and Hypertext References talks through the basics of the <a> tag and how to style it effectively. Good stuff.

WebCodr.com » Blog Archive » 15 Javascript Snippets You Can’t Live Without some cool Ajax-y tricks