Wait a week, and someone will have built it. The mantra of the web, in my opinion. At any rate, if your tired of wrangling with div tags and CSS to create an elegant, cross-browser box model design, check out Layout-o-matic. Think of it as the Scrubbing Bubbles of page layout design.

Sick of hand-coding your XHTML list-based navigation menus? Time for List-o-matic, then. List-o-matic is a web-based wizard that helps you generate inline navigational lists using XHTML and CSS. Good, time saving stuff.

Scott Hanselman has an excellent list of developer and power users tools posted on one of his many blogs. "If it saves me time, and seamlessly integrates with my life, it's the bomb." Right on!

You'd think by now that the saying "your website is for your customer, not for you" goes, well, without saying. Unfortunately for all of the end users out there, that just isn't the case. But it's not just the rookie designer or the design committees that are too blame. Just this morning I was engaged in an e-mail exchange with a reputable individual in the design community that felt something should be designed and built and hosted despite the need of the end user. I think all web designer's should have that saying posted to their mirrors and monitors - it would save a lot of people a lot of time and money.

While I haven't done anything quite constructive as creating a recipe for Silly Putty, I have managed to purchase and move into a new home (hence the silence). Given the fact that I'm now if debt for the first time ever, I'm expecting to have more than enough time to keep this show running.

So, what else has happened of note to me in the design world in the past month? Hmmmm. Well, Netflix redesigned - not bad, not much better. Speaking of Netflix, Reed Hastings - founder and CEO - is speaking with the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Thursday, October 30, 2003. Cerulean Studios redesigned their site as well - clean interface, web standards compliant, much better! Oh yeah, they also significantly improved Trillian Pro, their flagship IM product, by adding a slew of new features such as spell check and Jabber support. I highly recommended it.

I'm sure I'm missing something - I'll have to blame it on the packing and unpacking.