Refenestration Daily.
Apparently, you can hit shift-enter in Mozilla’s URL bar to save the URL (I didn’t know that). Though its usefulness may not be obvious, this could be handy for saving XPIs to disk (they often insist on installing themselves if entered normally in the URL bar).
(Due credit to Bonsai Watch for making note of the bug-fix.)
As mentioned on Zeldman, the v-2 Organization has redesigned with XHTML and CSS. What impressed me, though, was how the of the widescreen photo at the top of the page reacts as the browser window is resized.
With a little thought, it’s not hard to figure out how they did it. But, it’s not a techniqure I had seen before.
Via the WebWord mailing list is this comparison of Sears.com and Dell.
The focus of the article is on “seducuble moments&rdquo, which the author describes as opportunities for offering the customer additional products. There are no big surprises, but I found it interesting nonetheless:
If someone were coming to the site interested in buying a refrigerator, what would they [sic] most likely want to do first: (1) apply for credit or (2) find the right refrigerator? It struck us as odd that there was a way to apply for the financing, but no way to explore if the right refrigerator was on the site. […]
From this WebWord entry (via their mailing list) is this surprisingly helpful page on creating good 404 pages:
Offer a link to the site map, or better still, reproduce the site map on the error page. This will help those users that might have been just looking for a particular section, say, the “Services” page. […]
I was at first just going to mention this to Jason, but I figured that maybe some other people may be interested as well. Anyhow, I’ve recently discovered an excellent CSS mailing list — CSS-discuss. It’s administered in part by Eric Meyer, which gives a hint as to the caliber of the list.
I’ve only been subscribed for the past week or so, but I’ve found the list to be very helpful. And, even if I’m not asking the questions, I find that answering CSS questions of others allows also me to keep my skills sharp.