50 Beautiful CSS-Based Web-Designs in 2006

I just came over a collection of 50 beutiful CSS-based web designs in 2006. There some really gorgeous sites in this collection. It's worth taking a look on it!!

Web 2.0 how-to design guide

A must read for all people that are working on Web 2.0 web design: Web 2.0 how-to design guide. The article shows 15 design guidelines for a great and cute Web 2.0 site!!!

Rounded Cornr

Rounded corners and gradient colors are two basic concepts of Web 2.0 pages. If you want to integrate these two essential concepts easily to your Web 2.0 page check out http://www.roundedcornr.com/ which offers HTML/CSS code generation for rounded corner and gradient color :-) Really nice!!

Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications

I just came over a rather old article from Jesse James Garrett who explaines the principles of Ajax. However, it's still worth reading!! The article defines Ajax and explains the basic idea behind Ajax. Furthermore, a nice Q&A about Ajax is presented.

101 Easy Ways to use Google's New Website Optimizer

There's a great article of how to use Google's website optimizer. Website Optimizer is designed to help AdWords advertisers test different landing pages in order to determine which one drives the most conversions – whether they are sales, sign-ups or downloads. It's worth reading!!

Global Business - 8 Ways to Challenge Yourself

I just read an intresting article from Steve Rucinski who states the following 8 points to challenge yourself and your team in order to be ready for a global small business:

1. Think of the current constraints within which your team or business operates. If those constraints were gone, what could you do?
2. Identify your current greatest business challenge. What could happen if this were eliminated?
3. Consider and entirely different way in which the organization could be structured. What would be the consequences?
4. If your present distribution channels disappeared, what would you do?
5. If your current sources of material disappeared, what would you do?
6. Suppose your staff members were all from different parts of the world. How would your staff be different?
7. If you could increase sales by 250 percent in one year, what would be the consequences?
8. What would happen if you could reduce the time it takes to do your work by 50 percent? What would you do with the time?

Google Web Toolkit 1.3 released: Open Source

Google released the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) version 1.3 under open source licence. See the GWT Blog entry or the site of GWT (including demos)