Unshocking realization: This site is not pretty.
Useful links for helping it (someday):
IFR
The point to IFR is to let you create headers (or any text, really) on a site using non-standard fonts/color/effects, without having to tediously create a separate flash movie or graphic for each one. It has issues, but it’s mostly genious.
http://www.shauninman.com/mentary/past/ifr_revisited_and_revised.php
The PGA 2004 Championship site
No tables, beautiful layout, flash used in an unobtrusive, useful way.
http://www.pga.com/pgachampionship/2004/
Color Harmonies
Eventually, I’m going to need a new color scheme somewhere. I won’t do it again without using tools like these…
http://www.easyrgb.com/harmonies.php
http://www.triplecode.com/munsell/
Templates
Some decent starting points.
http://www.ssi-developer.net/main/templates/
Rounded corners
The best solution I’ve seen so far.
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/mountaintop/
ALA is a fantastic place to visit and feel stupid.
StockXChange
http://sxc.hu/index.phtml
Asterisk*
Where I actually found a lot of these links, and a beautiful, informative site, too. The Links section is like a portal to the world’s best art galleries (in web design, anyway).
http://www.7nights.com/asterisk/
Alazanto
Another visual masterpiece. It looks more like art than web, yet, fully web.
http://alazanto.org/