I find December is a tough month to set aside some time to blog. At least this December anyway. The days have been utterly consumed with work while the nights consumed with planning for the "big event" on the 25th. Weekends are swallowed up in mall mania as we journey forth to join the hoards of Christmas shopper. It's been a whirlwind, frenzied month but I see the light ahead. I think we're finally pretty much ready which gives me a moment or two for some noteables:

1. FACE (Faruk's Animated CSS Enhancements) by Faruk Ates - very nifty stuff. Just remember they're enhancements and as such not to be overdone!

2. The end of IE (Mac) - well, that ought to please the OS9 and under crowd. (I haven't used IE since upgrading to OSX but it was definitely the browser of choice for OS 9).

3. A really good article at A List Apart on Thinking Outside the Grid (Molly E. Holzschlag). The basic premise in a sentence: Don't feel constrained to using grid page layouts. Hmmm... but to do otherwise you really have to change the way you think. Not always a bad thing.

4. Ok, this is interesting: PHP+CSS Dynamic Text Replacement for styling your headline text.

5. Here's a neat site if you're trying to send large files by email but can't due to filesize constraints. Check out Drop Send.

6. The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web from Clagnut.

7. An Advent Calendar (web style) - 24 Ways to impress your friends - by Drew McLellan