One of the things that I rarely have the time to do is to create really nice looking web templates. Stuff that is just graphically pleasing, between work, school and having a social life, I just don't get time to do it. But reading one of the many blogs that I read in the morning, I came across this...

Just a few topics today. :) Things here in Redmond have been pretty crazy the last few weeks, but crazy in a great way. IE7 Have you tried IE7 yet? If not, I gotta say, it's pretty damn good. In fact, I'm writing this post within IE7 Beta3 , and it's been great to me so far. I haven't come across any...

Thanks to everyone who voted in the first By The Community, For The Community vote, we had almost 1000 votes, and an overwhelming vote for the Event Organization Site. Mitch has already started working on it, and we should see it online about August 4th. In the mean time, check out this weeks poll at...

By the Community, For the Community! I'm really excited to announce a new community program on the ASP.NET website called By the Community, for the Community. It's a system to help out everyone, and give some great community members a platform from which to show off their work. Every couple of weeks...

[Cross posted to WebDevTools blog ] Over the last few months, I've seen a number of forum posts from people saying that when they choose "Create New Website", the dialog box that showed them the different types of websites they could create was completely horked. For example, instead of showing this...

I got some great feedback on my last big CSS post, so I'm going to continue working through some neat and fun examples of CSS. I'm going to continue along the same path of applying CSS to pages as I think this is a really important area. There are so many ways to apply CSS, and so many funky ways to...

I was talking with a friend last night, and he was lamenting the problems that he was having with CSS. Not so much the problems, but more the fact he was just starting to learn it and wasn't really enjoying it so much. While we were talking, I tried to poke a few ideas out for future CSS blog postings...

One of my friends from my UNB days has posted a link to a rather interesting article titled Eight Problems That Haven't Changed . I read it this afternoon and found it to be pretty fascinating. I agree with almost all of them but sort of disagree with one. From the article, they list the 8 problems as...

Well, since I'm currently sitting at my desk, and not at TechEd like all the other cool kids, I figured I'd post a bit about some of the goings on at TechEd, you know, for those of us who have to work ;) Our team has a few people at TechEd this year, if you're there, say hi! Mikhail, Sam, Jeff and Alison...

EDIT: the blogging engine may be eating my style content, so if you don't see colors, bolds, and such in the below text, check out the same entry as an HTML file on my web site at http://www.nocommonground.com/blogSamples/selectors.htm Classes vs IDs Classes and IDs both allow you to define how a control...