Just a few quick links about Icon Design...
Learning To Love the Pixel
Hicks Designing the Thunberbird blogged before, but well worth it.

I am trying to approch the design of sacrifical rabbit, like I would a piece of code. You start off with something simple, TheSimplestThingThatCouldWork, and slowly progress ever onwards, refactoring as you go, until you end up with a nice, cohesive design that looks smart. That is the plan at any rate...

So here is a major step of my iterative design. Enter the .media class for divs:

John Hicks has a good diagram for all you CSS beginners out there. This shows you the "stacking order" of the various CSS properties of boxes (padding, border, margin, background color and background images)

Very nice indeed. Informative, and pretty! Though, I think that the background-image image (ugh, a mouthful) could be different, perhaps a different color, and/or an understated pattern of some sort. Perhaps an isometric view would tell the story of how everything fits together nicely? I dunno. It is much easier to play armchair design critic then it is to actually design.

Interestingly enough, no spelling mistakes on this entry. Now I just need to get "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" and fix my punkchewashun.

I hate your browser.

OKay okay okay, Mozilla is good. Mozilla, is so good that if it were to be made concrete in this world, I would bugger it with lots of lube and love every day.

But I do have one problem, and that is the difference between how interne Explorer and Mozilla (or, to be pedantic, Gecko) render images. Ever had the problem of random whitespace on some of your images? Welcome to web standard hell.

See, back in "the day", images were inlined to text. You would have a bunch of text, then an image, and a bunch of other text. Observe.

This is my text, its lovely, now lets have an Image.

This was back in the days of HTML 3.01, and probably HTML 2.0. It might even go so far back as HTML 1. The point is, images were considered text a long time ago.

So this means that your images are affected by other text controls, such as line-height. Remember, this is a legacy hanger on for when images were considered inline text.

The fix? simple. just change that image, or your group of images, to a block level element.

the Moz dev team have reams of justifications. Here is a non trivial inline element tutorial. Here is Another One that has a proposal in it as well.

I'm looking into how to style some forums on one of my sites without using talbes. There is this article at A List Apart written by Mark Newhousethat is just insane.

Don't get me wrong, Obviously Mr. Newhouse for the most part, knows what he is doing, the design on his blog is nice indeed. But if you are calling your div classes "row", I think that it is time you thought about what your design calls for and use it. If you are laying out tabular data, it is ok to use a table.

Granted, forms like This (at DutchCelt Design are fair game for using divs and css only. I am okay with that. But if your form is any more complex, then you shouldn't be afrid of the nasty table.

The problem is, people are missing the point when it comes to CSS. CSS doesn't remove the need for tables, it only removes the need for layout tables.

And yes, the tone of this post is rather bitchy, cause I am tired of the CSSnobs.

Here are some amazing pieces of Childrens furniture that probably cost WAY too much. But damn, they look pretty.

via MemePool

Of course, there is Designer Furniture for the well to do baby.

But if a highchair could be sexy(heh!) The Nest highchair is it. Functional and stylish, this would be a good buy for any parent with WAY too much money. Having said that, sometimes good design goes Too Far