Free Mac software for taking webpage screenshots. Can capture the entire length of a page (beyond the "fold").

An excellent resource for wireframing.

Notes on optimizing for speed and the benefits thereof. Note: "If someone completes their task on a site successfully, they will feel the site was faster than it truly was. If they can’t succeed, they will perceive it as being slower."

Detailed to the point of being almost unreadable!

Notes on the growing importance of design in business. Good short reads.

Ugly "Browse..." buttons be gone!

On starting over. "It's better to have something we're both proud off than to try and salvage the work done so far. Sometimes you have to go all the way through the design process before you realize that you've built the wrong thing."

A history of Amazon's site design, and a preview of what's next.

"The need for these distinctions becomes moot, of course, when no secondary actions are present. Make sure you really need each secondary action on a form and don’t add them indiscriminately."

Using one large image with all of your smaller images inside of it, and using CSS to position the background into the right position.

How to hide unsightly outlines.

It's about time. But when will this actually become an official recommendation? When universally adopted? And will that adoption be as awful as the previous implementations?

Works perfectly with scriptaculous.

A table of who supports what.

Checks through CSS and HTML to find redundant and unused style definitions.

What works in which browsers.

They look nice.

Beautiful, cross-compatible buttons in CSS.

A huge and valuable collection.

Weblog by Khoi Vinh, Design Director for The New York Times website and champion of grid-based web design.