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CSS styling of unordered lists to create tabbed menu navigation with high quality and refined graphics.
Sliding Doors of CSS: A List Apart

Check webpage links at a glance with simple color coding. Ditch those massive listings of bad links that provide no context and add LinkChecker to your arsenal of web development tools today.
LinkChecker - Firefox link validator extension for web developers

Having tried, trusted and standardised approach to Web development would go a long way to helping avoid the mistakes we all see over and over again. We need a Web methodology. However, finding a methodology that seems suited to Web development is not easy; making it work in the real world is even harder.
As the […]

Most tutorials on the styling of CSS lists for menus use unordered lists, which, for people starting out with CSS, can be a little difficult to grasp as the use of unordered lists requires extra styling to remove the bullets.
In this tutorial I demonstrate how to style a Definition List, which is equally suitable for […]

Web Design Practices is a site devoted to helping designers understand what design practices are currently in use on the Web—and aims to gather research about the usability of commonly-employed design practices.
The data presented on this site are intended to inform design decisions, not dictate them. Common practice does not necessarily equate with best practice—and […]

A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design. Select any style sheet from the list to load it into this page.
css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design

Here lies one of the great ironies of the web.
To a small business owner, driving interested customers to your site can be a daunting task. After investing in an online brand strategy, slick site design, shopping cart software and hosting service, it’s typical to be nervous about the prospect of drawing enough customers to recuperate […]

In my Modular CSS article I documented the possibility of breaking down stylesheets into components that could be reused across projects. All well and good. The next logical step is to extend this to become a CSS framework, allowing rapid development of sites with pre-written and tested components. All that’s really required to produce this […]

What is the box office?
“The Box Office” is another handy tool which makes us web developers even more lazy.
It automates the time-consuming job where one would have to manually create transparent div’s so that a certain piece of text would go around the contour of an object inside an image. (Just read on, it’ll get […]

Vitaly Friedman kindly suggested to StraTechnologist his enormous resource for Web developers and I happily report his work here for you:
“Web-Dev-Bookmarks” is a list of essential web-sites, tutorials, references and examples (related to CSS Navigation Menus, CSS- & HTML-Techniques, Layouts, Accessibility, Usability, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) etc.) which make the life of web developers […]