This video is an amazingly simple portrayal of what the Web is really built on – not the protocol, or just the structural or formatting tags but the data and meta-data. It’s a great snapshot of where we were, and what the Web is becoming now. continue

One of the cheapest eye-candy but still-useful effects for websites is the ubiquitous “rollover effect”. Although purists might opt to use CSS, image rollovers are really most effective in JavaScript. So, here’s my nugget of JavaScript wizardry for handling rollovers. continue

I’ve read a lot of designers online mention the “Web 2.0″ buzzword in reference to a design style. I always took Web 2.0 to mean a functional shift in how the Web as a collective system works. So which is it? continue