This discussion of Wordpress’s templating system is pretty handy. I’ve tried to use Wordpress a few times, only to be put off by the way its templates mix up html and php. This should help a lot.

Generating Simple URLs for Search Engines.

The Aesthetics Of Cultural Studies looks useful.

Via the CSS Weblog, a method to use transparent PNGs in IE.

As noted by Lance Parkin on rec.arts.drwho, the ratings for the first episode of the new series were so good—ten million viewers—that rival channel ITV were compelled to put out a press release saying that they weren’t worried. Nice.

Good grief, but the revamped Official Doctor Who website is a fly-blown piece of crap.

Dire flash anims and highly compressed JPEG backgrounds. Not good work, guys.

http://www.lukew.com/resources/articles/web_forms.html looks like a good resource.

Yes, the site currently sucks. Sorry. No time to update or fix, right now, beyond a horrid patch job to at least make it barely presentable.

Sigh.

The Dallas Observer’s website is astonishing. Looks like a classic, blocky, CSS-positioning-driven website. But it’s all tables, baby. It’s just trying to look like it’s a CSS website. Mad.

Which is a round-about way of saying that this article, about the world’s best Halo player is pretty interesting.

Via Julia Set, an awesome robot videoclip

Photoshop Help

Looks very nice.

In case I ever need to do this:

1. tar -czf archive.tgz /Users move to new drive then tar -xzf archive.tgz
2. remove /Users
3. ln -s /Volumes/Mydrive/Users /Users

Instructions from Patrik Montgomery at a Macintouch Readers Report from December 2001. It should probably still work, though.

Addendum:

A Unix Hacker’s Guide to MacOSX

Further Addendum:

OSX Tips

Here’s some interesting documentation for XMLhttprequest

I think Professor Von Explano will find this to be useful.

• XMLHttpRequest for the Masses
• Live Request
• Apple Documentation
• Live Textile Preview
• Live Preview (also read the comments, which are very interesting)

The Newspaper Designer’s Handbook Glossary

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072407611/student_view0/glossary.html

A nice intro to using PHP to transform colours in a cascading stylesheet

I’ve been wanting to try this for a while now. Looks like a good introduction.