Smashing Magazine’s 2010 Best Free Themes are up, now.  Some good ones there, though it seems like the themes are a little on the minimalist side instead of having a full range.

…That are horrible components of a modern site.

Among my favorites:
An introduction page. Nothing is better than putting something between an information hungry visitor and the information they are looking for.

A counter.  Most counters start at 1,000,000 views.  If you want your visitors to be really impressed, start your counter at 3,384,111.  The number is random enough that you might be able to trick the five people who still don’t know that a counter means absolutely nothing into thinking your site is AWESOME.

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Links to 151 Tools

Web Design News and Resources

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Great Article on Web Layout

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Quick and searchable CSS Reference Guide

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A List of Questions to Ask Before Creating a Logo

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Free Stock Photos Resource

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Inspiration When Picking a Color Theme

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Some Rarely Used but Useful Html Tags

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Find Out Who is Stealing Your Content

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Compress Your Java and CSS Code

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Learn How to Code

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Debunked and Criticized Useless Facts

• “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English Language.

“Go!” used in the imperative mode is the shortest sentence in the English language (especially because you can use body language as a compliment referring to “there” or “away”). “I am,” is not a complete sentence. “Am,” would need a compliment to turn it into a predicate (i.e. “I am stupid”) – you can’t use body language like you can with “Go”. If you don’t like using modes, try “I go.” A sentence needs a subject and a complete predicate – which can be implied. “I am” is a sentence just like “Q” is a sentence when used as a response to “What letter comes after the letter P?”. If you walk outside and say it to some random stranger on the street and they think you make sense, then it is probably a sentence. Imagine going up to somebody and telling them “Go!” They would understand that you want them to leave. If you walked up to someone on the street and said, “I am!” they would wonder what you were responding to because it is not a complete sentence. I’m not going to keep repeating myself for the stupid people, so I found some references for them to go look at instead of whining to me. Reference 1. Reference 2. Reference 3

• More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

There are more donkey related injuries than airplane deaths per year, but there are no statistics, nor has there ever been, to back up more donkey related deaths. There are roughly 1,200 airplane deaths per year.

• The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

“South America” and “North America.” Does that need a complete sentence or is it obvious enough?

• The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

“Aphasia” could just as easily be used here, given the generalized definition provided.

• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

What about pepperroot, pepperwort, perpetuity, pirouetter, prerequire, pretorture, proprietor, repertoire, repetitory? I’m sure we can think of even more words, and I’m only using the top row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard for those ones.

• A snail can sleep for 3 years.

Snails don’t “sleep” – they enter a state of torpor – no brain function and the appearance of being dead. Believe it or not, I actually raised snails for a season – even got 3rd place at the Great Folsom Snail Race.

• The longest word in the
  English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.

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