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If you’re not a regular listener of the Boagworld weekly web design / development podcast then you need to subscribe to it. They’ve had a month off and are back with episode 116 and a new site redesign - don’t mention the cows because its the part Paul didn’t design and everyone mentions it. They also provide a full written transcript on their podcast page. And don’t mention Paul’s new way of referencing his supporting links in the podcast (in human non-friendly terms), we’re all smarter than that right. Ha ha.

Seriously, if you’re a professional in this industry this is a staple of your diet. Get to it.

An explanation of pragmatic progressive enhancement and how to achieve it from Chris Heilmann.

Jason Cranford-Teague is working on font modules for CSS3 including those for CSS Fonts and CSS Web Fonts. He’s asking designers who work in HTML and CSS to put forward ideas on what might be improved and those improvements already suggested. Considering typography is most of the design these modules will significantly affect our ability to shine as designers.

Improving code readability with CSS styleguides offers some interesting ideas on how to improve your stylesheet readability. In my view, optimisation is about weighing up things like the size and complexity of the stylesheets, who will be reading it, ask whether you need to use redundancy to make things easier to understand, and understanding a lot of small stylesheets means more requests to the server. Its our job to take these ideas and optimise them for our unique projects. Some good ideas here.

NYTimes.com design director Khoi Vihn, author of the Subtraction weblog, discusses how the New York Times have approached their web design.

Starting with CSS and bug fixing tips are a great set of resources on best practice XHTML and CSS practices. Veerle has put together an impressive list of high quality tutorials.

Do we really need microformats? Robert Nyman is saying what a lot of us have been whispering about microformats for a long time - bulky non-semantic code riddled with excessive spans. Very good points all of them. Are you using microformats?

CSS3.info has a great tool that tells you what CSS Selectors are available in your browser, what’s buggy and what’s not supported at all.