We’re always hungry in css. It has such a great potential if done right that we don’t care if the time spent making our web apps compatible and compliant is so long. We searched and saved the best tools of the month when it comes to css and came up with this great list that might make your job easier or less painful. Hacks, publications, resources and other tools sit here in this edition that follows the CSS creme of the month.
- CSS Hacks & Issues
- “This article includes 8 helpful solutions which we find essential when designing with CSS”.
- Advanced Formatting and Organization
- “In this day it is very common for a stylesheet to contain many times more line of code than its corresponding XHTML document. Part of the challenge of witting good CSS is not just learning the correct properties to use, but formatting and organizing your document in a way that allows for easy maintenance and speedy display bug fixes.”.
- Margins and Padding
- 50% of the job might be to make your website look and act the same in all major browsers. This is a nightmare for all designers. While you’re swearing you might try this out…
- Margins and Padding
- “Uni-Form is an attempt to standardize form markup (xhtml) and css, “modularize” it, so even people with only basic knowledge of these technologies can get nice looking, well structured, highly customizable, semantic, accessible and usable forms.” – nice job.
- CSS Slicing Guide
- …learn to slice your templates into fully valid XHTML and CSS web pages.
- WordPress Theme Generator
- “This online generator creates your own custom unique WordPress Theme. Without any need for HTML, JS, PHP, or CSS knowledge”.
- A CSS sticky footer that just works
- “We’ve all tried to use a sticky footer one time or another, but they never seem to come out right, do they? Well, the days of a hard to understand CSS-based sticky footer are thankfully over”.
- 60 best CSS directories you would die to watch!
- “With new technologies flooding the web,different tools are available with which a web designer can showcase his creativity and craft. But despite putting in the effort and sweat, numerous websites with fantastic creativity fail to get noticed. Also, the surge in designing is driving designers to dig for creativity, color schemes and layouts.”
- Faster Page Loads With Image Concatenation
- Using icons in your web pages can have a great visual impact but it also makes it harder to load. Learn by example how to use concatenation to speed up your web applications.
- A Guide to CSS Support in Email
- “Inspired by the fantastic work of Xavier Frenette, we decided to put each of the popular email environments to the test and finalize once and for all what CSS is and isn’t supported out there”.
- Css tinderbox
- “The CSS Tinderbox is an effort to support open source web design by providing very basic, yet solid, CSS/XHTML design templates that web designers and web developers can use as the foundation for their own projects.”
- Css tinderbox
- “To help you work with CSS, we’ve created a free tool called Simple CSS, which runs on Macs, Windows and Linux. Simple CSS allows you to easily create Cascading Style Sheets from scratch, and/or modify existing ones, using a familiar point-and-click interface.”