Web: CSS Stuff On A List Apart

• Accessible Pop-up Links: "Make them more accessible and reliable while simplifying their implementation."
  
• Zebra Tables: Get alternating colors without all the maintenance headaches. The article's code works in IE6, Nav6, and Mozilla browsers. Follow the suggestion on page 2 of the comments to get IE5 compatibility as well.
  
• CSS Sprites: Image Slicing's Kiss of Death: Allows you to have all button images in one GIF, with both mouseover on and off states. Happy Cog Studios uses this method for their nav buttons.

Categories: Web, CSS

Design: Photoshop Channel Chops

Photoshop Channel Chops is an essential book for anyone interested in furthering their Photoshop skills. PC-Review Online describes it well:

It covers a very big subject that is normally for advanced users of Photoshop. However, this book takes this once advanced, often scary subject, namely channels and makes them easy. It also shows just how powerful and important they are to Photoshop users.

The book is under $30 on Amazon.

Category: Design, Photoshop

Web: Some Blogs I Frequent

• 43 Folders: Tricks, Hacks, & Getting Things Done
• xBlog: The Visual Thinking Weblog
• Kottke: Media, Design, Hypertext, Etc.
• Blog Maverick: The Mark Cuban Weblog
• Gizmodo: The Gadgets Blog
• Blogdex: The Weblog Diffusion Index

Category: Web