I noticed the new designs of CNN and New York Times, over the weekend. When it comes to news sites, I like to use BBC as a benchmark, and even though the new designs look good, from a usability point of view, I don’t dig it.
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Here are some handy Firefox shoftcuts which I regularly use.

Scrolling:

• Scroll down: Space
• Scroll up: Shift + Space
• Scroll line by line: Alt + Scroll

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Veerle provides a basic set of guidelines for a Request for Proposal (RFP), by which companies can save a lot of valuable time.

It’s a guide-book for us, so we can give the client a specific price estimate. Also, this will give us a head start once the proposal is approved.

sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) is an open source technology, which lets you use any font on your website by using Flash, JavaScript, and CSS. Mark Davidson has written a little history of sIFR, which evolved out of Shaun Inman’s FIR. Get more information from the sIFR documentation and FAQ. Also see it in action in the example pages.

Put simply, sIFR allows website headings, pull-quotes and other elements to be styled in whatever font the designer chooses - be that Foundry Monoline, Gill Sans, Impact, Frutiger or any other font - without the user having it installed on their machine.

Kevin Cornell in “Dissecting the Process“, shares his process for putting together an A List Apart illustration.