Background images. Paper, stone, lines, patterns, pool table. Very nice. ‘Free textures for your next web project.’

‘There are some particular findings that are pivotal to issues such as readership and readability and comprehension, which is really what body copy is all about. If people won’t read it, or if they can’t read it or understand it, then what’s the point of having it?’

‘This is a simple trick to overlay a grid or a mock-up over a page you're styling. It will also allow you to edit content directly in the browser to see how your layout behaves depending on various lines of text.’

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Change the tap highlight color in WebKit Mobile-using devices (many of them).

“Simple, lightweight WordPress themes for graphic designers, arists, architects, photographers, agencies, bloggers and other creative professionals.” Priced $30-$100.

Deep inspection of hasLayout, the cause of most 'IE bugs'. Last updated 2008.

“Lifted corners, Curled corners, Perspective, Raised box, Single vertical curve, Vertical curves, Single horizontal curve, Horizontal curves, Rotated box”

"Create Your Own @font-face Kits."

"Matrix of fonts bundled with Mac and Windows operating systems, Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite."

"Compatibility tables for features in HTML5, CSS3, SVG and other upcoming web technologies."

Create color schemes by doing color math.

How to make an background image scale without using a ton of JavaScript.

Total linkbait I know but there's some useful stuff here.

Using CSS to detect device size (for things like iPads and iPhones).

"Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widget, for example, you can achieve it simply and easily with this library."

A good edit-in-place plugin for jQuery.

Yeah, it's a crappy linkbait gimmicky list of fonts, but these are good ones (not all of them, and relatively speaking). I didn't Delicious this last month when I found it because I thought I was better than that but I've since needed to find the link again four times, so HERE IT IS. Bite me.

This may be worth looking into. I waffle on whether this sort of thing is ultimately a good decision — you're relying on someone else's framework, it takes a while to learn and master, and once you decide to go with it you're essentially stuck with it. But isn't that the case with any pseudo-framework developed for a website design? I should test this on a little project.

As seen on Normative.com.

As seen on Normative.com.

How to set up Photoshop so this will never happen again.

The ultimate resource for designing to a grid.

Intelligently choosing the graceful degradation (size- and style-wise) of your web fonts.

With handy charts.

"The purpose of these color profiles is something I could into another time, but the important thing to remember to avoid problems like Norm's is to make sure all your images were exported in the same way and so they either don't have a color profile or all have the same color profile. This will ensure that the site, at least color-wise, renders the same from browser to browser."

A "free browser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7, IE6, and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process."