Geek alert: if you’re not a server geek, there’s nothing to see here… move along now… 

Sometimes it helps to read the fine print. When using PHP’s mail() function, some of us need to remember simple things, like not using \r:

Note: If messages are not received, try using a LF (\n) only. Some poor quality Unix mail transfer agents replace LF by CRLF automatically (which leads to doubling CR if CRLF is used). This should be a last resort, as it does not comply with RFC 2822.

design in-flight: Soup to Nuts: Making a CSS-based layout start to finish

This is an excellent and simple article on designing CSS-based layouts. This is very similar to our internal development workflow for this sort of thing, but better documented! ;)

The idea of logical HTML labeling and global-to-local, hierarchical CSS development is critical knowledge.

Reading this won’t solve some of the trickier visual issues we regularly encounter and it’s certainly not the only way to do things, but, as a primer, it rules.