Why is is that every single game website I visit has to be based on Flash? I don't want to wait while their bloated excuse for a website loads and then get assaulted by low-quality looped music while wrestling with 'cute' navigation schemes. That is, if I could even get Flash working consistently in FreeBSD. Most of the time, all I want is a blasted wallpaper! Couldn't they at least provide a bare-bones HTML version? Grr.
Perhaps I'm the last kid on the block to come up with this, but I thought I'd share a neat little CSS trick I stumbled upon. In various parts of this site I use padding to make sure that, for example, text inside a box is separated by half an em from the border of the box. Putting a margin on the inside element doesn't work as well because you've got to anticipate every kind of element that might go in your container and give each one its own margin. The thing about padding, though, is that it doesn't collapse like margin does, nor do padding and margin collapse with each other.