Why is middle the default vertical align for a table cell?

A little bit of a rant here. Why do HTML table cells default to vertically centering the text? I have never done a design that it looked right for the cells to be vertically aligned to the middle. It seems that top aligned would be the most commonly used and for those [...]

Content Analysis added to Google Webmaster Tools

The Webmaster Tools at Google have a new feature - content analysis. It lists potential problems that were found while Google was indexing your site.
It lists potential problems as issues with the title tag, duplicate meta description, short meta description, long meta description, and something called “non indexable content issues”. The only problem that showed [...]

Add a preview to your WordPress comment box

Yesterday I was browsing around the blog world and came across this posting on keeping a clean desk. I found the topic interesting enough to leave a comment, but that’s not really the point. What I saw as I typed was that below the comment box was a preview of what I was [...]

WordPress theme cheat sheet

Are you working on a theme for WordPress but spending too much time digging through the Codex for all the right calls? Take a look over at WordPress Candy for their WordPress Theme Cheat Sheet.

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Google speaks on the meta description tag

If you frequent web design forums you will see threads going back and forth about the value of the meta description tag. Some say it’s critical, some say it’s outdated and worthless. Now Google has published a post on their blog explaining how important this particular tag can be.
From the article:
Why does Google [...]