Yes! Shoutout to Phong.com. They had a ton of crazy Photoshop and web design tutorials and were pushing the boundaries of design on the web in the early, pre/post-CSS days -- inevitably kicking off my career in web and tech.

Anyone remember using emp.gif (empty.gif) to help align table-based layouts with images?

P.S. I still think this "eplastic" tutorial is one of the prettiest things I've seen: https://archive.phong.com/tutorials/eplastic