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Turns out it was an option in the K2 Options menu to change asides to be in the sidebar not inline.

I'm using the K2 theme now, so I think I'll add a 3rd column and try the asides. Is it easy to add a 3rd column (changing the gears on the thread)?

Is that what Asides are?! Is there a bookmarklet for them? Although I do like the idea of including them into a social bookmarking community like del.icio.us. Are there plugins for pulling links in from del.icio.us? Maybe one that doesn't suck like most badges...;)

Cooper: Mayes has provided some of her never before seen images from the festival to start the site's gallery. We should have that up next week.

Here's a link. :)

Seanrox makes a good point about being search engine friendly. I read an article about a technique called Faust. As the article says, "Faust is a process for writing accessible sites where the page seen by users with Flash installed uses the same HTML as the page seen by users without Flash. In fact, the Flash movie parses content right out of the HTML page."

Not to stop your math flash fun, but there's a great library of Flash animation classes called Fuse Kit. Makes it much simpler to do sweet animations by calling functions and then specifying variables. It's the Flash equivalent to something like the JavaScript libraries script.aculo.us and moo.fx.

I think this is funny :D

The KPT of today and the one I used to use are not the same. I used to use the texture generator and the vortex all the time for making custom textures. I'd love to use them for making them in grayscale and then loading it as a bump map in lighting effects. Made for great backgrounds and such.

Oh shit, AlienSkin! Do you remember Kai's Power Tools? Kai Krause was the man back in the day.

I used to play on my Dad's Mac SE30, which had a 40MB harddrive. I remember when Zip disks came out and my father didn't believe me when I said a disk would hold 2.5 times his whole harddrive. I played with Illustrator 1 and Photoshop 2.5. Although I didn't get my hands in deep until version 3 of Photoshop. I used to set up a filter to run on my old Performa 6360 and go eat lunch. At that time I thought of myself as a digital artist and it wasn't until I went back to college that I realized my potential for commercial work.

Since then I've fallen in love with the Internet and now I think more about strategy and how it all fits together.

I love Cuban Council!!!!!!

And, I agree with stefani. Your site is really nice! ;)

I know I use my own search box a ton when I want to link to a past article or reread a comment or whatever. I also think it's one of those functions where a user may not use it frequently, but if it's not available it's a real problem.

Ooh, Devin that design looks really clean and nice. I think single column designs are pretty cool. Keeps things simple.

I sixth these sentiments. i and b are deprecated.

Flash UIs are the wave of the future!

I second Justin's link for Kuler by Adobe. It's not only a great resource for making color schemes, but it's also a great place to discover them.

I'm a big fan of good 'ol paper and pencil.

ems just establishes relative relationships. So the % defined in the body is equal to 1 em. 2 em is twice the line height. Ems are great because they maintain proportional scale when the base font size is increased. I'm an em man myself. :)

I always spawn a new window on my external links. I think it's useful to the user, although the target attribute has been deprecated. If you use onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" and the use your URL as normal in the href value, then it will validate and still work if the user has Javascript disabled.

An illustration of breasts, definitely not. A photo of breasts, well that all depends on presentation as to whether or not it's nudes or porn.

If I'm using a fixed width design, I still shoot for 800x600. Even though most people have 1024x768 or higher, I think you look dumb to people with 800x600 if they have to horizontally scroll.

If I'm using a fixed width design, I still shoot for 800x600. Even though most people have 1024x768 or higher, I think you look dumb to people with 800x600 if they have to horizontally scroll.

They are just called tiled backgrounds. Squidfingers has a great set of free ones.

I feel you.

db clay has taken over on site maintenence, so you're right there are a few validation errors now, however, they are really minor. For a test, I clicked on only two of Stylegala's current gallery entrants, gr0w and Yes Insurance, and neither of them validate. So I don't think validation is the issue (Mike Davidson intentionally doesn't validate at times).

And, you're right that Word of Sport makes great use of javascript and has strong usability. I think technically the site is awesome, but the design is dull. Protopage is also technically amazing, but their design goes beyond dull to being sloppy. I guess I saw Stylegala as being a CSS design oriented gallery compared to a technical showcase. Now, I think it's just weird politics, which kinda bums me out because I thought Stylegala was different (I don't know why that should surprise me—what award isn't steeped in politics?).

Does anyone know of a design oriented award site that isn't about giving awards to your friends or using them to build your own PageRank?

Ok. Am I just crazy or is has Stylegala lost some credibility in your eyes too? Check out two of the most recent additions to their gallery: Protopage, and Word of Sport.

These entries seem technically proficient, but their designs are downright ugly! Maybe it's just me. I'm feeling particularly put off by it because I've submitted sites, such as db clay, which I think have a much superior design, yet it can't make it into the gallery. Then, a safe, tired looking design like Word of Sport makes it in?! I acknowledge the technical quality and solid information architecture, but it's a boring design.

web.burza, I know it's graphic heavy, but I think this site uses it tastefully.

Oops, I meant this one:

Taken just for the 9rules peeps:

I often look at the source code of a site to determine a part of the site's quality. If the code is sloppy and uses deprecated mark-up or font tags, they lose some credibility in my eyes.

I use relative font sizes, but I've never had it break my sites. If a designer uses relative font sizes, then they can't do things like use fixed heights on elements. I think the "high court" that preaches relative font sizes, also promote liquid layouts.