Robert Nyman developed the ‘ultimate’ JavaScipt library. Functions for classes, styles, attributes and a shorter version of document.getElementById();. There are two versions available: one with basic functions, and also one with some extra functions.
The best thing is in my opinion, the size of the documents. The basic one is only 1,16 kB and the extended only 2,75 kB.

Jay Lipe wrote a shortlist with 12 points for a successful Web site.

If you want your small business website to stand out from the crowd, follow these practical website design tips. If you do, you’ll harvest more traffic, higher conversions and more sales from your site.

• Know your site’s objectives.
• Make your on line identity sync up with your off line one.
• Identify the key three tasks for your site.
• Draw visitors in with your first two paragraphs of copy.
• Consider including a search box.
• Use a tag line.
• Keep the web page layout consistent throughout your site.
• Keep text short.
• Provide a FAQ section.
• Hang sales tools off your site.
• Provide contact information on every page.
• Increase media access to your company with a press room.

Via Usabilityweb.

For future development on Internet Explorer, Microsoft Task Force, DOM Scripting Task Force, and the JS Ninjas have asked everybody to help the IE team. They started a list of with things that needs to get a fresh look: bug’s, features and support for other techniques. Via Peter-Paul.

I found a list of resources about writing for the web, while searching on the Internet for some information about it. The list is collected by Jacob Nielsen, the usability guru.

The list contains links to articles about press releases, micro content (headers, e-mail subjects), newsletters, et cetera.

While working on a Web site, it might become a nasty problem: you forgot that HTML element name, type of CSS selector, JavaScript function or something else that is slowing down your working progress. The solution: Cheat Sheets.

“Most cheat sheets are available as .pdf or .png-files, so you can print them and use them every day for whatever projects you’re currently working on. We present an extensive overview of useful cheat sheets we’ve found in the Web.”

Get the list of Cheat Sheets organized by Smashing Magazine. Via Naar Voren.