CSS is an abbreviation for Cascading Style Sheet. CSS is a standard for specifying the appearance of text and other elements on web pages.
CSS Showcases Sites
- CSS Cream
- CSS Heaven
- Web Creme
- CSS Remix
- CSS Elite
- CSS Mania
- CSS Tux
- Screenalicious
- CSS Design Yorkshire
- CSS Vault
- CSS Reboot
- CSS Showcase
- CSS Container
General CSS finesse and trickeries
- Creating Stylish Web 2.0 CSS driven menus, try these:
Five web 2.0 CSS menu tutorials, Navigation Menus: Trends and Examples and Russ Weakley’s Listamatic - Markup Maker — takes a simple list of page ids entered and converts it to a valid XHTML document. It also creates the shell of the CSS.
- CSS Optimizer — web tool for reducing the file size of cascading style sheets.
- Time Sensitive CSS using PHP — serving dynamic, time sensitive CSS with PHP
- Position is everything — Big John and Holly Bergevin explain some obtuse CSS bugs in modern browsers
- Listamatic, Selectutorials, Floatutorials & Listutorials — Russ Weakley’s obsession with lists and presentations
- Mid passs Filter — sending styles to IE5* Win only
- How to attach an IE/Win Bug
- IE5/Mac Band Pass Filter — sending styles to IE5 Mac only
- IE5 Mac oddities — miscellaneous bugs in IE5 and how to fix ‘em
- FOUC — Flash of Unstyled Content
- The CSS and XHTML Lab (RSS) — from Roger Johansson at 456 berea Street
- Eric Meyer’s CSS Edge
- Western Civilisation – CSS guidelines
- Your HTML source > Stylesheets
- The Layout Reservoir
- The noodle incident — Problem & Workaround Set for a series of CSS Boxes going from a simple single box, through 3 columns with a full width top box, all with variations
- Agitprop
- Mako 4 CSS — The CSShark Answers FAQs and CSS Tutorial
- CSS Homepage of W3C — World Wide Web’s CSS starting point and current status
- Cascading Style Sheets For Websites
CSS Optimisers
A worthy read if you plan to use the following to optimise your CSS
- Clean CSS — CSS Formatter and Optimiser
- Icey’s CSS Compressor
- Flumpcakes CSS Optimiser
- CSS Optimizer
Cascading Style Sheets for PDA’s (Handheld Devices)
CSS Editor
There are many CSS editors out there… I’ve used a few over the years. My favourite so far is CSS Edit from MacRabbit. Extremely responsive, great interface, easy to use. Of-course there is no substitute to handcoding but its not always handy if you are looking to pick up colours etc.