Its been another busy few weeks around the web…lets see what has been happening.

Design
Thinking outside the box - Boxes and Arrows goes indepth about the ever important topic of “ease of use”.

Bulletproof Web Design - Dan Cederholm has released a new edition of his really great web design book (I have the first edition and it is a worthwhile read).

Freelancing
Project Juggling - FreelanceSwitch has a new article on how to manage multiple projects.

Motivation - A List Apart’s newest article gives a lot of helpful hints on how to stay motivated when going through the different phases of a project.

.NET 3.5 and Microsoft Goodies
What’s New in What’s New - MSDN has a new article on what is new in the new edition of the .NET framework (version 3.5) that comes with the new version of Visual Studio. My goal was to say new as many times as possible in a single sentence…I believe I succeeded.

WPF 3.5 - Here is a video of what is coming in the next version of WPF, also part of VS 2008.

Expression Part Deux - Even though Blend v1 just came out a couple of months ago, they are already releasing previews of Blend v2. Those crazy Microsoft people…

Silverlight is Suite - Component One has officially come out with an unofficial version of their new toolset for Silverlight called Sapphire.

ASP.NET and CSS - ASP.NET’s server controls are notorious for creating some really ugly code. This is supposed to change with the controls in VS 2008. The controls will, for the first time, output clean CSS driven markup. Hooray for progress!

Tools
BuiltWith - Ever wonder what technologies and libraries your favorite site uses? Wonder no longer!

XRAY - Here is a cool little tool that lets you see the properties of different parts of a webpage. It works on just about anything but IE, but if you have Firefox’s Web Developer extension you have been playing with something very similar for a while now.

Miscellaneous
All Hail the King - BusinessWeek has a great article on Jeffrey Zeldman and the rise of web standards. A great read.

CSS Navigation 101 - Sitepoint has a nice article on how to build menus using CSS. Great for beginners.

RTE Meet YUI - Yahoo has just recently released a Rich Text Editor for their YUI platform. On their blog you can get a behind the scenes look on how it was built.