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One of my daily reads - Smashing Magazine. I love it. Tons of great info, and sweet links.

Our aim is to inform our readers about the latest trends and techniques in web-development - clearly, precisely and regularly. We don’t try to convince you with the quantity, but with the quality of the information we present. That’s what makes us different. In fact, we smash you with the information which will make your life easier. Really. About Us

If you have not visited yet, DO IT. Some of my favorite posts are the ‘Best Of’ for each month. There is always a few things they put in that I missed during the month, and get so excited they highlighted.

Check out the past 3 months worth:
Best Of October 2007
Best Of September 2007
Best Of August 2007

Give them a read and let me know what got you excited.

Ya know those moments where you just have to sit for a minute and stare at the wall, and say ‘Duh’.

I had one of those moments today.

I have been thinking about grids and CSS frameworks a lot lately, and did not even think that ‘Wouldn’t it be a great idea to start the grid process in Phootshop’? I read this post today, and I really felt stupid for not thinking along these lines a long time ago: 960px Photoshop Grid Template - Genius!

So, since I mentioned it yesterday, I might as well talk a little bit about it. I am not going to go into my super long speech or anything, just some basics, and what some others say.

Semantic HTML - What is it? Basically - HTML is for describing the structure and meaning of content – not for describing presentation.

As much as possible, the tags surrounding the content of a document should describe what that content is and/or what it’s for. - Jason Kottke

Semantic HTML is just regular HTML, “semantics” is just a fancy word for “meaning”. Its just using the given elements the way they were meant to be used.

Here is a pretty cool presentation that gives some examples: Joseph Lindsay - Semantic HTML, and its from May 2005.

I used to start every site with just the HTML first. NO image, NO CSS. I have gotten out of that habit, but really need to get back to it. It makes building site so much easier.