Choosing the right color scheme is essential to your website’s success. Your layout and other design choices - including font - should be developed in concert w
a free user interface builder for GTK+ and GNOME interfaces designed are saved as XML, and by using the libglade library these can be loaded by applications dynamically as needed. (Glade can also generate C code)
Guy Steele's keynote at the 1998 ACM OOPSLA conference on "Growing a Language" (mostly about JAVA) discusses the importance of and issues associated with designing a programming language that can be grown by its users.