I’m trying not to put too many tutorials for website designers on the site; it’s not really my main audience, but every once in a while you come across something really simple and beautiful.

Glossy, Web 2 style buttons on websites seem to be flavour of the month and these have worked their way into Windows Vista’s operating system and some very big websites like First Direct bank (a gorgeous, glossy interface!).

This tutorial shows a really nice way of getting some glossy, shiny web 2 buttons onto your site

Web 2.0 style buttons | IRIS Design

If you spend anything more than a few minutes per day on the web like some saddos, you’ll have come across a frustrating ‘404 Page Not Found’ error from time to time, usually from when people leave links pointing to the wrong places and forget to update them.

This bunch of 17 brilliant 404 pages shows us that life can be so much more fun when we even think through the error pages of our sites.

Craven & Murray are Rochdale Opticians, based in Norden, Lancashire, and when they approached us, we helped them to plan and deliver a website that helps to reflect their bespoke and friendly opticians.

We used a similar drop-down menu (see right) to the one here on Peloton Internet, which works well across all browsers and makes the site ‘feel’ a bit more classy and showy, without showing off with needless functionality.

Lots of Search Engine Optimisation planning has been built in too, and we’re very much hoping that the site will pay for itself by bringing in those all-important search engine customers over the coming months.

This is probably the most succinct and readable glossary of web terms I’ve come across. Hats off to those clever people at White Hat Web Design for this:
http://www.white-hat-web-design.co.uk/articles/dictionary.php

An extensive how-to guide on achieving opacity through CSS3. Opacity, (like rounded corners) is one of those features that really helps to make a website feel modern (at the moment!) - it’s only just emerging in a form that can be used compliantly in all browsers. Hoorah!

Click here to read the guide