Marco Folio posted a list of the most popular Design blogs out there and these are definitely some of the best of the best. If you're not reading these sites, you should reconsider. Sites like Smashing Magazine, PSDTuts, and CSS-Tricks are all blogs that I read nearly every day. And the others on this list are just as spectacular. I'm honestly surprised that some of my favorite Web design sites didn't make it on the list like MezzoBlue, A List Apart, and Vitamin and others on my Blogroll. But perhaps they aren't considered blogs.

If you search the Web you can find hundreds, if not thousands, of SEO companies making sweeping promises about what their services will provide: "#1 on Google", "top ranking in search engines", "rank #1 for every keyword". You name it, if it sounds to good to be true, it is too good to be true. But now, these scam artists are being sued in court. SEO is more an art than a science, and techniques that work one day might not work the next. And tricks that are fine in one search engine might get you banned from another.

I have been researching various ecommerce platforms and solutions lately. And there are a lot out there. So how do you choose which one you should use? Do you have a shopping cart on your site? What service did you use to make it work? Should people use PayPal and a solution like WebAssist eCart? Or should they go with a site on Yahoo! or Amazon? What is your favorite shopping cart? Is a free or open source cart like Magento better than a paid or closed source cart like ShopSite?

I was reading this post on smashing magazine the other day and it mentioned using CSS to set your text to uppercase. Sure, I agree with that. After all, that's what the text-transform property is for. But here's something you may not have known. When I did this the other day in a script that was building documents intended to be copy/pasted, I ran into an unexpected snag. In Firefox 3 (and possibly other browsers, I didn't test) when I would copy the transformed text, it would copy it as it was written in the HTML not as it displayed on the Web page. This was extremely frustrating for the people copy/pasting until I figured out what was going on. I ended up hard coding the all-caps sections just so they would copy and paste correctly.