For those of you who don’t know him, he is the guy behind css-tricks.com, where he teaches us all the tricks he keeps under the sleeve. Today we have the opportunity to interview him and ask him some questions regarding his approach to the tricky world of CSS.

There is a new category in the blog: Design Contests. In this one I will keep you informed of the latest design competitions on the web. From t-shirts and logos to application UIs. Here are the first 4 contests.

Most of you must remember this great post from css-tricks.com where Chris Coyier showed “What Beautiful HTML Code Looks Like”. For many of us that was how we first met Chris and his full-of-tricks blog.

Well next Thursday he will be here on an interview answering some questions and giving us a few recommendations on how to get not just a “pretty face” in ours designs but also how to be beautiful from the inside.

Your cousin asks for help on a presentation about wild life in Africa, but you have a deadline the same day with your client and he is already sending emails and trying to get you on instant messenger. Sounds familiar? Designers have to deal every day with “design favors,” asked for by our loved ones, and we don’t always have the time nor the patience to help them. That’s why we need the help of other generous designers who share their work.

Powerpoint presentations are not my field of expertise (kind of hate charts and tables), but there are many sites with lots of nifty templates and backgrounds, as well as tips and tricks to master them. I list here 5 sites which offer lots of free stuff, and some also do custom designs. So they might be helpful to your cousin and even yourself, or maybe you want to suggest them to a client for a more specialized work.

Let’s start 2008 with some gorgeous nocturnal cityscape panoramas, from Paris to Shinagawa. These 22 HQ Panoramas were taken from Flickr and they are free to use under the Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 License.

The title is the name of the city and the resolution in pixels. To download the images and attributions please click on the photo to go the Flickr download page.