Start with a number followed by a nifty subject area full of tips.

Here are some useful examples:

20 Fantastic Resources For User Experience Know How:
http://www.inspiredm.com/2009/05/15/ux-madness-20-fantastic-resources-for-user-experience-know-how/

50 iPhone Apps for Web Designers and Developers
http://mac.appstorm.net/roundups/iphone-roundups/50-iphone-apps-for-web-designers-developers/

20 Tools to Make the life of a Web Developer Easier
http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/web-roundups/20-tools-to-make-the-life-of-a-web-developer-easier/

25 Most Useful Blogs for web design and development
http://www.webappers.com/2009/04/06/25-most-useful-blogs-for-web-design-development/

50 Great Examples of Data Visualizations
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/06/50-great-examples-of-data-visualization/

5 impressive Mashups of Twitter and Flickr
http://mashable.com/2009/05/11/twitter-flickr-mashups/

30 days to become a freelancer
http://www.skelliewag.org/30-days-to-become-a-freelancer-961.htm

Trend spotting a fashion that is beginning to get irritating.

I was just talking about this today… the process and importance of review. Not that I’m trying to support yet another bureaucratic processes – hell no! That wouldn’t be useful… but.. well, isn’t reflection the pathway to advanced skills and mature project outcomes? Read the rest of this entry »

The web is full of drop menus and I’ve lately been asked to do plenty of PSD to HTML cut ups that involved them so I’ve become friends with Son of a Suckerfish. A nice neat way to create drop navigation with CSS and very little Javascript. (damn you IE!) Most recently I encountered a problem with the drop menus falling behind form elements in IE. Normal techniques like shifting the z-index don’t work because of the way IE handles anything that falls with in a select tag. After a little web search I found several fixes that worked well, but used entirely different css to the what I had in place. Notably making the drop menus visible by using left:-9999px tricks and a like – while I already had mine working perfectly using the display:none; property.

So! I eventually found this fantastic link – which enabled me to apply a bug fix step by step to existing code rather than starting from scratch as with the other fixes I found.

Highly Recommended: Suckerfish Dropdowns, Selects, and Internet Explorer