Not to be confused with its Office line of software, Office is Microsoft’s latest foray into offering web based services.

The service is mainly for the small company of less than 25 people whose IT department is that one guy who took a introduction to computers class in college.

Office Live comes in three flavors of varying prices (all are free in the beta though). First there’s the Basic Live edition (which will remain free even when it goes Gold). This one contains general website development tools, the ability to have your own domain name, like, www.website.com, instead of something like www.bigwebsite.com/thing/ohwow/768865554.htm, five email accounts, and a website traffic report.

The next version of the software…. wait, is this software? It does not install on your computer. I hereby call it “serverware.” The next version is the Collaboration edition. It will cost around $30 once the beta ends and does not add much more to the Basic edition to justify its price.

The last one is Essentials, cost starts at $30 and it adds a whole slew of more email addresses (50), keyword reports, and more online workspace.

I signed up for the service, but since it’s a beta test, Microsoft itself picks who it wants to participate. If selected, I’ll report on the creation process with a self-made website.

Erraticwisdom wrote some very insightfull and interestings tips which help in organizing CSS files. It’s well worth checking out.

Erratic Wisdom: 5 Tips for Organizing Your CSS

Here are even more Photoshop tutorials and brushes for your pleasure; Happy layouting

Free Photoshop Brushes Resources

Our friends at Google have been busy analyzing slightly over a billion documents, extracting information about popular class names, elements, attributes, and related metadata. The results are really interesting, not only as they provide a detailed insight into standard class names or id names, but also as the Google authors review the results and reveal some interesting insights into how Google interpretes the html data.

and revisit-after, supposedly used to tell search engines how often to recrawl the page. To our knowledge only one search engine has ever supported it, and that search engine was never widely used — at this point, it is nothing more than a good luck charm. A remarkably widely used one. More pages use the completely worthless than use the element!

Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics

Web 2.0 has been the new buzz-word for the past months now. If you either really don’t know what all of this is about, or still think that Web 2.0 is essentially Ajax, head over to Kevin Lynchs page and read his small review from the Web 2.0 conference, including essential tidbits from for example Tim O’Reilly, which should give you a deeper understanding of what the Web 2.0 really is about.

Web 2.0 explained