Here’s an interesting technique of drawing a user’s eye to an area on a page, by using a colour that fades after a couple of seconds. I know that it’s supposed to be for areas updated by the user (and I can think of at least one project for doing this), but it might work else where. I must give this a go, see what it’s actually like. It’s going to either be really good, or really bad…

(Update – having migrated my blog to WordPress, I find that it uses this technique. And it’s quite nice. It works well)