So, recently, my employers paid thousands of $$ to one of the gurus of CSS, Molly (www.molly.com) to come up with advice and standards for our site. One of the things she said, which struck me was that the era of rounded curves and gradients is over. According to her, these just make the developer come up with all sorts of crazy hacks/unnecessary use of images. The days of the boxy design are back.

I am also including a link here to a site talking about the same thing, pretty much: http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/8-web-cliches-of-2006.asp

I just thought I should share, free of charge , so you can apply to current/future projects. Am I not sweet?