May 31
It doesn’t matter, whether you’ve been working with CSS for years or have started to learn it recently. In both cases expert ideas for CSS coding and creative approaches for professional design are extremely valuable and can turn out to be life-savers in the design process. You might never use some of them, but it’s nice to have them right in front of you, on your desk, once you need them.
Recently we’ve published 35 Designers x 5 Questions and 70 Expert Ideas For Better CSS Coding, in which we’ve tried to cover some parts of coding and design in the web-development. Afterwards we’ve received dozens of e-mails, in which you asked us to pack both articles in .pdf-files, so they can easily be printed out for quick reference. And we’ve promised to do it. In every e-mail we’ve received.
So now it’s time to keep the promise. You can download both articles as .pdf-files, print them out and use as a handy cheat sheet for usual problems you might run into in your next projects. Feel free to spread the word to developers who might be willing to use it, but please don’t refer to .pdfs, but to this article. Respect our work. Please.
The third article of this series is on its way.
[via Smashing Magazine]
May 31
Our little ad network that could is growing up. We’ve just added Matt Haughey’s brand new site Fortuitous to The Deck. Fortuitous is where Matt documents his “new career in professionally screwing around on the web” and few people have screwed around as successfully as Matt.
If you have a product or service that could benefit by being in front of millions of creative, web and design professionals, check out The Deck. June-August inventory is now available.
[via Signal vs. Noise]
May 31
This is third beta of script.aculo.us 1.7.1, which provides Prototype 1.5.1 final compatibility and Sortable speed improvements.
The included final 1.5.1 version of Prototype brings the latest and greatest in new cool features and performance gains, so be sure not miss this one. 
Beta warning: Things might not work as you might expect, though they really should—if you hit any problems, please use the bug tracker and give reports. The same that applies to Prototype applies for script.aculo.us too, so read the how to contribute page to see how you can help out!
See announcement for more information and a download link!
[via script.aculo.us web 2.0 javascript]
May 31
Xeni Jardin: 
A new street-level zoom feature on Google Maps debuted recently, to much freakout and fanfare (previous BB posts: 1, 2). The company performing the drive-by surveillance and image capture services for Google is Immersive Media, and here's a blog post from the PR guy who reps them. What a scary/cool little 12-sided camera that is on the "Street Level View-Mobile."
As for the resulting map details, I don't know whether I'm more terrified or delighted. Mostly delighted, because my house hasn't shown up in a close-up yet. (posted from the road in Central America / Xeni)
[via Boing Boing]
May 31
A designer formats and places text. Technically, the job ends there. But some designers go further, sharpening their clients' content to grab and focus user attention. In so doing, they create more effective sites—and gain an advantage over other designers. Drawing on decades of copywriter lore, Shaun Crowley discusses seduction by headline and other principles of writing that sells.
[via A List Apart]
May 31
In dogfood style, little Web 2.0 apps come up to support Web 2.0-isms.
My Cool Button takes on the Big Button meme, and uses jQuery to get ‘er done.
[via Ajaxian]
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