Recently, I had the need for a generic "animate" method... jQuery has an animate function, but it didn't fit my needs so I wrote this quick extension. Here's the article (with demo at the bottom) - Generic "Animate" function with jQuery
I know there are a million toolbars out there (every FireFox user will remind you so)... but I still love the simplicity and functionality of the IE7 Dev Toolbar Beta 3 , and especially one of it's features that really help with CSS and semantic markup...