Thinking Outside the Grid

Holzschlag has an excellent article on a-list-apart about the whole idea of adopting a grid or tabular approach for the design and content of a website. She draws parallels with real world phenonema of town or city planning (or lack of it) comparing a modern city with a well established one. She goes on to indicate how we can 'break out of the box', or at least fool the user into thinking we have....anyway, read the full article for more information by clicking on the link.

Where is HTML at?

You've probably worked out by now that HTML is a bit of a slippery beast, what with deprecated tags, and browsers that behave in odd ways. Like most software, it's constantly adapting and changing. W3C is trying to keep a lid on it, and encourage the right kind of development. HTML 5 is under development - latest editor's draft just out.

http://www.alistapart.com/ has great articles, I do recommend you check it out, including this one, which discusses some of the features of the new version.