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CSS has fundamentally changed web design, it has provided designers with a set of properties that can be tweaked to make various techniques to make your pages just look right.
Today we are presenting a round-up of 101 CSS techniques designers use all the time. Definitely worth taking a very close look at! This is just the first series , the [...]

CSS can powerfully open the doors to a lot of rich and unique techniques. Today we are presenting a round-up of CSS coding, creative approaches and techniques. Definitely worth taking a very close look at! We also included some basic techniques you can probably use in every project you are developing. This is just the third article in this series [...]

Eric Meyer has posted his reset styles CSS for the public on his blog. The CSS will help you to reduce browser inconsistencies like different margins, padding and line height. It’s a good idea to use a reset CSS file any time you are creating a new site or page.
Check out the reset styles CSS.

Smashing Magazine offers another great roundup of 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without
CSS is important. And it is being used more and more often. Cascading Style Sheets offer many advantages you don’t have in table-layouts – and first of all a strict separation between layout, or design of the page, and the information, presented on the page. Thus the design [...]

SitePoint has a new CSS Reference site that you may find useful. It includes the following topics:

What Is CSS?
General Syntax and Nomenclature
At-rules Reference
Selector Reference
The Cascade, Specificity, and Inheritance
CSS Layout and Formatting
Box Properties
Layout Properties
List Properties
Table Properties
Color and Backgrounds
Typographical Properties
Generated Content
User Interface Properties
Paged Media Properties
Vendor-specific Properties
Workarounds, Filters, and Hacks
Differences Between HTML and XHTML
Alphabetic Property Index

If you haven’t checked out the rest [...]

Noupe has a wonderful roundup of 101 CSS techniques.

CSS has fundamentally changed web design, it has provided designers with a set of properties that can be tweaked to make various techniques to make your pages just look right.
Today we are presenting a round-up of 101 CSS techniques designers use all the time. Definitely worth taking a very close look [...]

Internet Explorer 6 isn’t perfect, far from it, but unfortunately while the user base for the outdated browser is still high, it’s in our best interest as designers and website owners to ensure that our sites work correctly for the majority if not all of our users.
There are bugs and problems with Internet Explorer 6 (and even IE7) but you [...]

There is a terrific list of freeware software for Web designers over at TechnoTarget. There are descriptions and screen captures of each application.
Smashing Magazine has links to 100 Excellent WordPress Free Themes including a screen capture for each theme. You should definitely bookmark this site since we discussed WordPress yesterday and will work with it [...]

Since we just discussed using frameworks in class I thought Frameworks for Designers was a good article for you to review. It discusses the benefits of developing a framework and goes into some detail on how to develop your own.

Vitamin, a site for designers and developers, has a great feature article on Creating Sexy Style Sheets which outlines 10 tips for writing well structured and easy to understand style sheets.
While at Vitamin, take a look at the article Make Your Site Mobile Friendly which offers great tips for writing and testing CSS rules for handheld devices.