I'm not usually one to make a fuss when someone launches a redesign (heck, I didn't even mention our very recent and very nicely done redesign at work), but go check out BusinessBlogs. You can read the content if you like, but scroll down to the bottom and take a look at their footer. They've devoted a 500-600 pixel tall space to a brief overview of their company, and a couple of links to key pages. I like the concept. It isn't right for everyone, but it does deserve to be added to your mental list of design patterns.
(Update: Broken link fixed. Thanks, Tomas!)
I really like one of Tom Peters' recent rants. He recounts problems with timing and logisitics on a house remodel. While I can't much relate to his $9,000 stove, I think he makes some good points. In particular:
Maybe the motto is, "For excellence, sweat the 'small stuff,' the 'big stuff' will take care of itself."
Lately I've noticed that the devil truly is in the details. Two quick examples:
1) The new addition to our website. I cooked up a working prototype/proof-of-concept in just a few days, then proceeded to spend pretty much the whole summer getting the details down.
2) Our website redesign. Having to add tons of CSS rules and/or change plenty of code to work around annoying browser bugs.
But, you gotta do it. The house of cards comes crashing down if you can't do the little things right.
I've known for some time that my RSS feed kinda sucked. It was showing only the first 100 words of a post, and no HTML (no links). It forced you to click through to my site, for no good reason, to read the rest of the post.
So, today I finally got around to fixing it. You should see the whole post now. Enjoy. And apologies for re-displaying old posts as a result of the change.
Paul Holder wrote in about a post I wrote a month and a half ago, Ajax, InnerHTML, and the back button. Paul came up with a nifty little solution involving cookies, javascript, and a random number. Go give it a read...