Websites are not primarily about how beautiful they are or how well they express branding elements — they are about effectively communicating content.
Excellent video blog from ‘Google Developers’ introducing HTML 5 explaining the accelarating user experience becoming available to web users. Introducing HTML 5 Back to blog / Back to Evisible
A slightly disturbing new trend seems to be happening in the world of interface design, requiring people to move their mouse around to tell what is a link and what is not.