Top 50 CSS designs of 2006

SmashingMagazine listed 50 beautiful CSS-based websites of 2006 with snaps, thus earmarking the end of an year full of creativity.

Emotionslive.co.uk

Dinis91.com

Google Apps for Your Domain

If you have registered a domain or planned to register this is probably is good news for you. Google is giving away its goodies like Gmail, Gtalk, Google Calendar etc to serve the multidimensional purpose of your domain. The good thing is that its fully customizable to give the apps a touch of your site. Besides you will also be able to put content on the site by leveriging the power of WYSIWYG editor.

If you have planned or just decided out of shear excitement of this news to register for a domain, again this is a great time. Google has partnered with GoDaddy and eNom to provide for registration services for $10 a year. The added flavor is that you get private domains which means your privacy will be preserved and your contact information will not be revealed. Other services charge 3-10$ extra to get you private domain.

Get started here ..... happy blogging!!

Wikia launching OpenServing

Going by the philosophy of open source Wikia unveiled OpenServing, which will enable users to create their own collaborative sites. It will have the following features:

» The contents of the site could be created or edited on any topic by you as well as by your users/viewers.

» Users can vote the articles, much like Digg.

» You can comment articles, also vote on comments written by others.

» Articles with most votes will make it to the frontpage.

» Add or edit additional feeds (drag-drop) related to topic.

» Most important-- You get 100% of the revenue that the site generate with ads.

Web Pages That Suck

Once in a while we come across a site that does nothing but sucks, the site's layout,patterns, user interactivity everything is enough to drive you nuts. Well, now before anyone sees your site and start advertising it as the Uggliest Site, in order to take a precautionary measure check www.webpagesthatsuck.com. This site has some good articles on the topic and they even list real world examples of real sucking sites (Hope they have not already listed your site !!!).