Google maps uses an old technology – JavaScript – in a new way. It works together with server technology in a method called AJAX. You will notice that changing the map view does not refresh the entire page. It was this feature that rekindled my interest in JavaScript.

Literary Moose has some great demos and tutorials on CSS. But be aware that the site uses XHTML (correctly) presented as XML. Internet Explorer is unable to handle this. You won’t even see the links to most of these experiments. He calls them “CSS Destroy” for a reason.

I did notice many of his experiments use CSS 3, which is only a proposal at this stage, not a standard. Only Opera fully supports these new properties, so download Opera to discover his amazing designs.

Regarding a site’s colors, the Favelets suite I mentioned[1] has a “View site colors” menu item.

[1] http://slayeroffice.com/?c=/content/tools/suite.html