Volunteers has been assisting the W3C in redesigning their validation service. It’s probably the nicest looking site I have ever seen at W3C. The infamous validation buttons are still there though.

RGB can be a real pain to work with. It’s hardware-oriented, non-intuitive and even after 10 years of coding RGB combinations for the web, I still can’t get the colors right without an external reference application. If a client calls and tells me he prefers the blue color to be “slightly less saturated” or “just a bit darker”, I always open up photoshop, type in my previous hex value, drag the pointer to a new color that fits, copy the new hex value I get and finally insert it into my style sheet. Coding colors by hand shouldn’t be that hard. Fortunately, CSS3 offers support for the HSL color space that is much easier to work with as a human.

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• BD4D
  Superb redesign.
  (tags: design community inspiration webdesign)
• display: inline-block cross browser
  A nifty way of aligning list items horizontally
  (tags: css inline list align)
• DHTML Color Picker
  Handy color picker in HSL mode.
  (tags: javascript color ajax tools css)

Indescribable. Play this at a drunk party.

• Web Application Form Design
  Any visual element that is not helping your form layout ends up hurting it.
  (tags: webdesign forms usability design ui form)
• Color conversion formulas.
  Useful when composing colors in other formats than RGB
  (tags: color algorithms programming graphics reference)
• Flip
  eh…
  (tags: text fun flip)