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Favikon is a great new web app that makes it very easy to create favicons.

The great thing about Favikon is how easy it makes creating a favicon. First you upload the image that you want to convert to a favicon. Then you can resize and crop that image to your hearts content. When you are done editing the image in the cool little editing window you can then preview and download your new favicon.

Coda-Slider 1.1 is some pretty slick javascript animation that mimics the coda tab sliding effect.

A List Apart has released its findings from it’s 2007 Web Design Survey.

Like many aspects of web design itself, our research process took the form of a dialog and included multiple stages of discovery. Preliminary findings answered some questions and raised others requiring additional study.

Helping your client maintain markup quality is a difficult problem solve when your client is using a CMS to input their own content. The article “Helping your client maintain markup quality” over at 456 Berea St. looks at an interesting way to inform the CMS user when they creating non compliant markup with the WYSIWYG editor.

Smashing Magazine has a good article The Showcase Of BIG Typography that showcases some cool uses of large typography.

The main advantage of excellent typography lies in its ability to be both attractive and functional at the same time. Although images communicate more vividly, text presentation can impress visitors with its sharpness and precise geometrical forms and curves. Consequently, chosen wisely and used carefully, it can be very effective If you are interested in learning more about typography this article is worth checking out.

This article by Mark Boulton has some good tips for increasing the legibility of website designs.

Styling form controls is a frustrating experience because you cannot get consistent results across different browsers. In Eric Meyer’s blog post Formal Weirdness he explains why form controls are impossible to describe with current CSS.

Confusion is one thing that a web developer must avoid creating. When you create confusion in users it leads to them leaving your site, most likely never to return. Having invalid markup causes confusion in web browsers and search engines. What this means is that your site is more than likely going too marred by improper renderings, the browser crashing on the user, or pages that remain forever un-indexed by search engines. All of these issues can lead to frustrating and confusing the visitors of you site.

There are several great tools that you can use to validate your markup.

• HTML Validator at the W3C
• Tidy
• Web Developer Firefox Add On

I have found Bullet Proof Web Design to be a good resource for CSS/Design principals, it’s worth a look.

I came across this article a while ago, but it points out a few usability mistakes made by some of the bigger names on the web. Why not learn from there mistakes.