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I've got too many browser tabs open and not enough time to do anything with them, so here are notes to my future self:

David Shea's CSS Crib Sheet

there must be something to add from my recent re-design, I make the same stupid mistakes every time I do a CSS layout, now what were they? Don't forget z-index...

Nice titles

yes! That's what I was trying to do on my links page last night, have to borrow it and apply my styles. Wonder if I can grab the accesskey too?

Unobtrusive DHTML unordered list dropdown

I've been using Dave Linguist's version and it's clunky as all hell, especially since I maintain my links page by hand, updating at least weekly. It's time for something cleaner.

Revised Image Replacement

Caught up on my FIR variant reading. Unfortunately my professional portfolio uses transparent images, so I'll stick with image tags there. Otherwise I think the Gilder/Levin Method is the best option (best meaning accommodates the most users), and I'll have to add Shea's enhancement (title attribute on the header tag) on my H1 here. Today I almost had a solution to the text resize problem (the remaining problem with using images of text), but 1em is not the same size cross-browser, so there went that idea.

Labels.js

I'm thinking this would be really cool layered on top of pixy's fieldset and label formatting, so you've got a foundation of solid XHTML, with CSS enhancing the layout, and JS taking the interactivity up a notch. To test it out I'm thinking this site could use a contact form. Hmmm, where to put a link to that? Maybe top left across from the skip to text link?