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Useful Resources

Elsewhere

Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) Resources

World Wide Web Consortium

• CSS Property index
• Cascading Style Sheets home page
• If You Pick One Color, Pick Them All, by Olivier Thereaux and Susan Lesch
• Media types
• Positioning schemes
• CSS Validation Service

Layout and Positioning

• Advanced CSS Layouts: Step by Step, by Rogelio Vizcaino Lizaola and Andy King
• Any Column Longest, from CSS Discuss
• Box Lessons, by Owen Briggs
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS): Absolute Positioning, by William Weinman
• CSS Layout, by Ross Shannon
• CSS Layout Techniques: for Fun and Profit, by Eric Costello
• CSS Panic Guide (A guide for the unglued), by Owen Briggs
• CSS Playground, by David Baron
• CSS Positioning, by Mike Hall
• Do You Want To Do That With CSS? — Centering a Wrapper, by John Gallant and Holly Bergevin
• Liquid Web Design: Build it right and it will work no matter what the container, by Nick Finck
• Listamatic: one list, many options, from CSS.MaxDesign.com.au
• Position is Everything, by John Gallant and Holly Bergevin
• Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks, & Techniques, by Mark Newhouse, from A List Apart
• Rounded Corners, from CSS Discuss
• RuthsarianLayouts
• StopDesign.com Articles, by Douglas Bowman
  • A Design Process Revealed
  • Making the Absolute, Relative
  • Sliding Doors of CSS, from A List Apart
  • Sliding Doors of CSS, Part II, from A List Apart
  • Throwing Tables out the Window
• Ten CSS tricks you may not know, by Trenton Moss

CSS vs Tables

• CSS vs Tables for Layout, by Scott Milne
• From Table Hacks to CSS Layout: A Web Designer’s Journey, by Jeffrey Zeldman
• Position is Everything, by John Gallant and Holly Bergevin
• Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks, and Techniques, by Mark Newhouse, from A List Apart
• Tables, from the CSS2 Recommendations, World Wide Web Consortium
• Tables for Layout, from World Wide Web Consortium
• Tables or CSS: Choosing a layout, by Craig Saila
• Why avoiding tables (for layout) is important, by Dave Polaschek
• Why Should I Avoid Tables (for Layout)? The Importance of CSS in Web Page Layout, by Jennifer Kyrnin
• Why tables for layout is stupid: problems defined, solutions offered, by Bill Merikallio and Adam Pratt

Media Specific Styles

• CSS Design: Going to Print, by Eric Meyer, from A List Apart
• Making Small Devices Look Great: Web Pages With Multiple Views, from MyOpera.com
• Media types, from World Wide Web Consortium
• Printing Web documents and CSS, from CSS Discuss
• Stylesheets for Media, from CSS Discuss

References

• Browser Support, from Western Civilisation Pty. Ltd.
• Complete CSS Guide, from Western Civilisation Pty. Ltd.
• CSS, from Networked Writing Environment at the University of Florida
• CSS Coding Style, by Joe Gregorio
• CSS contents and browser compatibility, by Peter-Paul Koch
• CSS Link Styles 2004, from Project Seven Development (PVII)
• CSS2 Reference, by Eric Meyer
• Developing a CSS strategy, by Michael Meadhra
• HTMLDog CSS resources:
  • CSS Beginners Guide
  • CSS Intermediate Guide
  • CSS Advanced Guide
  • CSS Properties Reference
• Menu System Comparison, from Project Seven Development (PVII)
• Real World Style: environmental style, by Mark Newhouse
• Revised method of defining link pseudo-classes, by Bill Mason
• Useful CSS Resources, from CSS Discuss

Class and ID

• The Basics: CLASS and ID, by MaKo from Orion HiTek, Inc.
• CSS Classes vs ID, from Erack Network
• CSS tricks: class vs. ID, by Jennifer: scripty at scriptygoddess dot com
• Class and attribute: What are selectors, classes and id-attributes, by Tapio Markula
• Class selectors, from Western Civilisation Pty. Ltd.
• ID selectors, from Western Civilisation Pty. Ltd.

Font info

• BIG BAER Explains CSS Font-Size, by Jack "Papa" Baer
• CSS: Variable vs. Absolute font-sizes, by Mark deJeu
• Code Style font sampler, by Philip Shaw
  • Serif font sampler
  • Sans-Serif font sampler
  • Monospace font sampler
  • Fantasy font sampler
  • Cursive font sampler
• Fantasy fonts for Windows, by Dan Smith
• Font size test page, from Limitless Innovations
• Font-size variations with point measurements, by David Perrell
• Fonts, from the CSS2 Recommendations, World Wide Web Consortium
• HTML and CSS Font size chart, by Alexander Schreyer
• An Introduction to Type
• Percent vs. Em Measure: How each affects font size, indents, and margins, by David Perrell
• Text sizing, by Owen Briggs
• Toward a standard font size interval system, by Todd Fahrner
• Typography and Page Layout: The Printers' Point System, by John Magnik
• Visual Reference Guide for converting CSS Font-size: from px (pixels), pt (point) to em (*), by 4ums.com

From A List Apart

• Alternate Style: Working with Alternate Stylesheets, by Paul Sowden
• CSS Design: Going to Print, by Eric Meyer
• Invasion of the Body Switchers, by Andy Clarke and James Edwards
• Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks, and Techniques, by Mark Newhouse
• Sliding Doors of CSS, by Douglas Bowman
• Sliding Doors of CSS, Part II, by Douglas Bowman

From Eric Meyer

• A Basic Primer in Using S5
• CSS Design: Going to Print, by Eric Meyer
• CSS Work
• CSS/edge
• CSS2 Reference