The content and typography on A List Apart feel like a lovely scholarly journal. It’s “for people who make websites”, ranging “from pixels to prose, coding to content,” plus the culture and design of websites.
Sit down and enjoy with a cup of tea.

Though we do love a good spreadsheet, FreeAgent has truly set us free. It helps manage time spent and billed per project, expenses, invoicing, bank accounts and taxes including VAT, plus a running total of the company profits. And when we really want to open Excel, it easily backs up as a spreadsheet.

Looking to be more efficient, 2-5 seconds at a time? The green curve shows your new faster life via Google Instant. What we find especially fascinating are the results for each single letter of the alphabet — it’s a real snapshot of our times. Amazon, Best Buy, Craigslist…

Here’s a geeky wink for you: CSS Zen Garden shows how the same web page can look completely different depending on the CSS design applied to it. The content is always the same but the CSS styles it, with amazingly diverse results.

This internet Tardis will take you right back, nearly to the dinosaurs — at least it will feel like that when you see Google’s 1998 beta. Pre-Twitter, pre-Facebook: was that the Age of Innocence? Type your favourite website into the Wayback Machine and find out for yourself.