 ah long weekends are the best i got a lot of freelance work done and im hoping to finish up the couple of projects i am working on so that i can redesign my site here is what i found interesting this week how simple web design helps your business this is a list showing how some nice design decisions have helped these e commerce sites web design by designers when award winning design firms design their website they should let their work be the focus of the site a list apart issue 266 aaron rester discusses a new way of thinking when developing a site in mapping memory web designer as information cartographer and dave shea shows us how to add a little flair to css sprites with jquery in css sprites2 its javascript time how captcha was foiled are you a man or a mouse spam is obviously one of the biggest issues on the web but are we attacking it incorrectly with captcha some think we are matt mullenwegs answer is to focus on the content rather than the user 