The changing typography of the Web

"The type you see on the Web is under going a revolution. Beginning Tuesday, Monotype Imaging made 2,000 of its fonts available to web designers. The move follows FontShop, which put several hundred of its fonts online in February.

Girl Scout Cookie-Selling Scheme Crumbled

With help from her dad, 8 year old Wild Freedom uploaded a YouTube video in which she made a perky personal pitch: "Buy cookies — they're yummy!" But by setting up a selling operation online, she violated Girl Scouts of the USA rules that ban Internet sales.

The difference between Microsoft.com and Apple.com

"These screenshots were taken on 2 March 2009 at 23:31 GMT and shows the homepages for the US versions of Microsoft.com and Apple.com.

In Defense of Readers

An interesting look at how you can design your web-page in such a way as to attract readers, not just skimmers. A must-read for those who must read.

Best of CSS Design: 2008 edition

it is time for — Best of CSS Design 2008 (a new list of 50 websites hand-picked from Best Web Gallery). This year, more designers are using the large background technique and utilizing Javascript frameworks (such as jQuery and MooTools) to enchance the user experience.