It has been said before, and it’ll surely be said again, but one of the most important steps to understanding how to build web sites with HTML & CSS is the ability to step back from old ways of doing all the work in the HTML document and being able to separate the content from the display.

This week its Meryl who comes in with a short piece on how to approach designing the marked up document and then adding the presentation layer.

If you’re looking for something profound to be said about the topic, you won’t find it there. Its just one of those topics that needs to be reiterated until you ‘get it’.

Wevah has recently taken over development of the OS X app Paparazzi! and is already putting out some great changes. This is a great little app for taking screenshots of web pages (like this one) as they appear in WebKit browsers (like Safari or OmniWeb).

Dean Edward’s CSSQuery is a cross platform Javascript function that allows for complex selection of HTML elements based on CSS selector syntax. An easy way to grab a collection of elements of with a given class name, but also allows for selection based on more complex CSS2 or 3 selectors.

And finally, from Cameron Moll comes Mobile Web Design a 4 part piece on, well, web design for mobile devices.

Perennial favorite A List Apart is back with issue 201, a redesign, and much more (but wheres my Atom feed? hehe).

I’m a bit biased as I’ve long been a reader, since before it was a website, but it looks great and from my first experiences it seems to have all the great things we’ve come to look for in ALA – and in some incarnation not find. Oh, and its own Threadless store too…

This issues’ articles include When You Are Your Own Client, Who Are You Going To Make Fun Of At The Bar? by Jim Coudal, Facts and Opinions About PDF Accessibility

and Zeldman has a nice feature covering the history of ALA as well as details on the new site.

Happy Reading!

Sorry Miroslav, theres a new “most fun” hockey name to say…

Yutaka Fukufuji, who played with the Japan’s national ice hockey team three times, displays his Los Angeles Kings jersey during a news conference in Tokyo Thursday, Aug. 18, 2005. The Tokyo-born goalie, 22, reported Japanese media that he and the Kings of the National Hockey League agreed to a two-year entry level contract earlier this month. Six-foot-1 and 170 pounds Fukufuji was selected by the Kings 238th overall in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Pardon me while I steal a move from a friend and post some random google searches that PNH ranks high for.

Random phrases where I am the top result…

• diablo means devil
  
• css fun
  
• the simplest solution is often the best
  
• designer stool

Phrases where I’m at least on the first page…

• opera dresses
  
• bad logo
  
• love sexy

And the list cannot be complete without acknowledging that a search for september 11 photos still drives more traffic this way then any other search phrase.