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The site is about interface and interaction design, structured as a pattern language. It features real-live examples from desktop applications, web sites, web applications, mobile devices, and everything in between.

IE NetRenderer allows you to check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 7, 6 or 5.5. Verify your web design natively on all popular Internet Explorer versions, without several physical or virtual Microsoft Windows PCs just for testing purpose.

Here are structural templates to create conforming HTML and XHTML documents. Follow the link, copy and paste into your editor of choice, and save.

Validation Hints coupled with Form Field Hints

An elegant TOC navigation block made out of as little as 8 lines of HTML and 5 lines of CSS.

Find icons in PNG format

Generator of color schemes and palettes to create good-looking and well balanced and harmonic web pages.

The tutorial will teach you how to create pretty looking textual buttons (with alternate pressed state) using CSS. Dynamic buttons save you heaps of time otherwise spent creating graphics and will basically make you a happier person at the end of the day.

Compare JavaScript compression utilities like JSMin and Packer on various JavaScript frameworks.

The following is a collection of stripped down master pages for your use with SharePoint 2007 sites. The master pages that ship with SharePoint are full of formatting code for the respective design for the master page.

The jQuery Media Plugin supports unobtrusive conversion of standard markup into rich media content. It can be used to embed virtually any media type, including Flash, Quicktime, Windows Media Player, Real Player, MP3, Silverlight and PDF into a web page.

HTML emails are the subject of many discussions. This article doesn't discuss about weither or not HTML messages have their place in our mailboxes, but about a problem web developers face when creating HTML emails: the email client support of CSS.

High Performance Web Sites: The Importance of Front-End Performance

Beautify, pretty print yours or others JavaScript. Very very nice!

Firebug Tutorial - Logging, Profiling and CommandLine

CSS Eleven is an international group of visual web designers and developers who are committed to helping the W3C's CSS Working Group to better deliver the tools that are needed to design tomorrow's web.

Em Calculator is a small JavaScript tool which helps making scalable and accessible CSS design. It converts size in pixels to relative em units, which are based on a text size.

A guide on how to ems in font sizing in CSS

CleanCSS is a powerful CSS optimizer and formatter. Basically, it takes your CSS code and makes it cleaner and more concise. The CSS optimizer is based on the CSS Tidy parser.

The Email Standards Project works with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email.

The Email Standards Project is here to help designers understand why web standards are so important for email, while working with email client developers to ensure that emails render consistently.