I've had a couple of situations recently that caled for a scrolling text box smack in the middle of my HTML layout. Because the sites were running off Expression Engine for the CMS, and SEO for both sites very of primary importance, I couldn't use Flash. And rather than using some nasty IFRAME (I've just never gotten used to that thing), I found jScrollPane, a jQuery based solution.

Over the years I have shied away from using graphics in menus because I wanted to maximize SEO potential. In recent months I've stumbed upon a completely palatable CSS solution that allows me to have the text in the link, but replace it with a rollover image. This technique doesn't appear to be new, but it's new to me and I dig it.

Browser support for PNG is completely acceptable now in my opinion, and I use it quite a bit on some heavy graphics in the derekvreeland.com site that require it.