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WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive.

The Tango Desktop Project exists to help create a consistent graphical user interface experience for free and Open Source software.

OpenLaszlo is an open source platform for creating zero-install web applications with the user interface capabilities of desktop client software.

You might have heard of the browser-safe palette, Netscape palette, 216 palette, Web palette, and/or 6x6x6 color cube. All these terms refer to the same set of colors, which this page will describe in detail.

Mason is a powerful Perl-based web site development and delivery engine. With Mason you can embed Perl code in your HTML and construct pages from shared, reusable components.

Faesthetic #6 is 160 pages of original black & white art, photography, graffiti and illustration with the theme of "LOVE & DEATH."

“Silk” is a smooth, free icon set, containing over 700 16-by-16 pixel icons in strokably-soft PNG format.

Erik Spiekermann calls himself an information architect. He is equally comfortable and prolific as a writer, graphic and typeface designer (ff Meta, itc Officina, ff Info, ff Unit, LoType, Berliner Grotesk etc), but type is always at the epicentre of this

We want to create a series of “sandbag” divs that we’ll lay over our image, and it will be these sandbags and not the actual image that the text will flow around. But we don’t really want to do that ourselves: we want to get PHP to do it for us.

This is a pure, 100% CSS solution. It requires no ugly hacks, no javascript, and markup that is perfectly semantically correct.

Ning is the new free and easy way for you to create your own Social Web Apps

S5 is a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With one file, you can run a complete slide show and have a printer-friendly version as well.

Our studies suggest that current Web writing often does not support users in achieving their main goal: to find useful information as quickly as possible.

Recently there has been a bunch of blog entries centered around the success of “Ugly Design” on the web. The contention (by Robert Scoble, most recently) was that ugly design is more effective.