Four letter words - (37signals)

• Need
• Must
• Can’t
• Easy
• Just
• Only
• Fast

They are especially dangerous when you string them together.

I’m suddenly reminded of a saying that I’m particularly fond of:

1. Good.
2. Fast.
3. Cheap.

Pick two.

I knew I would link to this post after reading through just a few items, but I couldn’t pick just one (or just five) to quote here. There are just too many gems to pick from so I’ll leave it at this: go read the whole thing, now!

Only use block-level elements in blockquotes:

Something I see quite a bit of around the Web is the blockquote element being slightly abused. […] That’s right, the blockquote element is not allowed to have text or inline elements as direct descendants.

That’s the great thing about this industry: there’s always more to learn, even when it comes to the basics. Putting raw text in a <blockquote> tag probably became a habit for me 10 years ago.