I love Vivabit's website design for one reason: it's perfectly scalable. In other words, it's incredibly well designed. It's also a very "fresh" site, in the sense that the different components work very well together and give breath to the design.

But the absolute beauty of it is it's scalability.

When I'm designing a new website for a client, half the time they have their perfect idea in mind and the other half want me to come up with something new and fresh and completely unique. It's always a crapshoot. And while I usually get the structure easily, the colors have been known to cause aggravation.

And that's when I turn to the Color Combo Library, plop the client in front of the computer screen and ask them what they like. They can choose to look through the library, narrow it down to a specific color (which then shows them all the complementary colors) or plug in the URL of a website they love to identify the color scheme. It works every time.

Smashing Magazine is a great resource for designers of all types, but the post I bookmarked was in May of 2007 titled, "70 Expert Ideas for Better CSS Coding". Some of the information is a no-brainer (but I'm big on following CSS standards and organizing… I won't let anyone else work in my CSS unless they do it the way I do): organize, use borders to identify how the setup is working, pay attention to closing all tags, etc. But some of it still surprises me, like working with EMs.

It's definitely a link I'm glad to have in my repertoire, especially when I run into a wonky problem I can't seem to solve.

I have probably 20 links for different ways of displaying photo galleries on websites… Flash, javascript, plain CSS, etc., and one of my recent favorites is Cabel's Fancy Zoom. Using Javascript and CSS he's created a beautifully styled photo gallery that's incredibly easy to execute.

I'm not a big fan of Flash—bad SEO, doesn't work on old browsers, etc.—so a Flash-looking javascript gallery is exactly what I'd bookmark.

Back when I originally started doing a lot of CSS design, I found The City Church website via CSSBeauty.com (I think). It's a beautifully designed website, all CSS, clean and contemporary. In the beginning, I often looked to their code to identify how their tabs came out and how they managed to make the site look incredible even on IE.

I believe I found this URL about two years ago, and it resides in my Site Examples folder.

Last year I was designing a wedding website for a friend of mine and came across TheThirdofJune.com. Yes, it's made of tables, but mainly it's a lot of javascript and the content is displayed in very unique and interesting way, particularly considering it's a website created to memorialize one day.

I love web design, but I'm not a big fan of Flash. Fortunately I've found FlashComponents.net, which has literally saved me.

Simple, un-expensive flash components to add to websites… that's why I saved this URL.

In general, a list apart rocks. Once I started doing web design full time, a list apart became an invaluable resource.

In 2004 they ran an article about creating onion-skinned drop shadows using CSS, and it was such a great idea, I made a bookmark. But a list apart has a ton of excellent, well-written articles, so I have the homepage bookmarked as well.

This site made my list for two reasons: the design is cool and the product is unique.

The site is very clean, attractive and perfect for the product… small amounts of pain medication and bandages in cute, 100% recycled packages.

I would suggest they look at optimizing their code… all the images are called via CSS and while the load time isn't terrible, it should be fantastic for such a minimalist site.