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Dan Harper has a tutorial on creating a Shoutbox using PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) and SQL (Structured Query Language). Not that I’m into shoutboxes, nope.

35 JQuery Tutorials web designers might find useful to bookmark.

Jason Santa Maria’s podcast interview on CreativeXpert offers some design inspiration. It’s interesting to listen to how others find inspiration and their paths travelled.

Robert Nyman questioned why two CSS Includes with title attributes in his head section caused only one CSS file to be called. Roger Johansson answered that - specifying external stylesheets states that setting the title attribute makes that the author’s prefered stylesheet. Handy to understand.

Tommy Olsson, in the article comments, has the full explanation of this feature and how title affects and is used to group persistent, prefered and alternative stylesheets.

Dmitry has something to say about using contrast in your design to focus on the hierarchy of importance.

Jonathon Snook has improved on Dave Shea’s recent method (posted on A List Apart as CSS Sprites 2: It’s JavaScript Time). Jonathon thought about it and came up with an improved method for creating background animations using JQuery - very, very nice indeed. Man I have to get smarter at this game. Nice work.

How to Manage Out of Date Content is a post from Gerry McGovern how 6 year old content on the UAL’s (parent company of United Airlines) Content Management System got picked up by Google News and they lost 76% of their stock value just like that. Would you call that a down side of content management?

Are we ready to discuss the value of content management as opposed to content dumping in the corporate environment? One would think those figures measure on the economic value scale. (via Paul Boag)

Cesare Rocchi on NETTUTS has a very basic rundown - Introduction to Adobe Air - about how to set up and deliver Adobe Air applications.