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Tabbing systems are becoming increasingly popular in all forms of web design, not just Wordpress. This is expected, as they are a very unique and effective way of displaying alot of content in a small amount of space. Common uses of tabs in Wordpress include displaying popular posts, recent comments, post categories, etc, etc… You get the idea. Here are some of the more popular solutions to getting yourself a fully-functional tabbing system in just a few minutes:

1. StereoTabs – Simple tabbing system, part of the scriptaculous library.
2. DOMTabs – I’ve heard good things about this system.
3. TabMenu – Another great and lightweight tabbing system.
4. Tabifier – Another lightweight javascript tabbing script.
5. UI Tabs – Powerful tabbing system run off of jQuery.

Scott Hanselman presents the following article on getting a machine up to speed for Web Development.

There’s a new site at http://www.microsoft.com/web and a new (beta) of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (blog announcement). It’s basically a super bootstrapper that keeps track of where to get stuff and organizes them as profiles.

If I select “Your Choice” I get a complete list from a catalog of things that can be downloaded. I can auto-select options from a dropdown like “PHP Developer” or “Classic ASP Developer.” Cool that those options are there as well as ASP.NET Developer. There’s a manifest that it downloads to get the latest versions of each of these.

On the Web Server tab, it’ll pick the right IIS modules you’d need to get a site up, but it also shows as options some of the more interesting (and not well publicized) modules like ARR and BitRate Throttling that have been released since IIS7 came out.

If you’re running a Web Development shop, it’s certainly a quick way to get everything you’d need installed, including the free version of Visual Studio Web Express.

Check it out, and if you have any trouble or find anything interesting, you can report it directly to the team at the Web Platform Installer Forum. If you like it or hate it, let them now. It’d be interesting to see how extensible it can be and if they choose to extend it other developer products.

Again, noupe tracks down an awesome resource. It’s really amazing how much good stuff you can find daily on one single website. One of the best web resources out there is Web Resources Depot.

Web Resources Depot is loaded with amazing free web design resources which can simplify your web design and development process. The resources are updated daily and categorized in a simple and efficient way to help you find what you are looking for.

You can browse through their categories to grab resources related to brushes, buttons, texture, fonts, icons, colors, security, xhtml & css code, CMS, project/newsletter management applications and, more.

Don’t forget to grab the RSS feed to get new resources everyday.

CSS Web Design Examples, Tutorials and Other Resource

CSS Beauty is not only an active database for well-designed CSS sites but it is also a way to connect designers with potential clients and a source for web design and general aesthetic inspiration.

Web Design Inspiration is a collection of screenshots showing excellent web designs. It is well worth browsing simply for graphic and web design inspiration.

Web Creme is a very simple site and easy to follow on RSS: screenshots are posted, often more than once per day, of truly impressive web designs.

Unmatched Style is a source for businesses and designers who seek inspiration from particularly attractive, interesting and progressive web designs.

Design Firms is one of many sites on which you can find designers directly but your best bet might be a simple Google search or simply contacting the author of a design found through one of the above-listed design inspiration sites.

25 Beautiful Minimalist Web Designs shows the awesome power of simplicity when it comes to web design – more isn’t necessarily better.

24 Great Niche Galleries has screenshots with descriptions and links to various galleries that you might want to see for more web design inspiration.

10 Great Web [Re]Designs of 2007 features mostly popular and mainstream sites you may already be familiar with but also provides some useful analysis.

Best of CSS 2007 is another great screenshot-packed eye-candy collection of cool web designs from last year – worth bookmarking for future inspiration.

Love it or hate it Web 2.0 design has had a big impact recently. Some consider it a passing fad, others see it as the future. If you’re in the former category then this is the list for you. Contained within this post are 99 resources for Web 2.0 design. Click on through and find:

• Badges
• Buttons
• Rounded Corners
• Logos
• Icons
• Gradient Images
• Speech bubbles
• Background images
• Colors
• Navigation icons
• Favicons
• Charts
• … and more.

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