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A CSS framework, also known as a web design framework is a pre-prepared library that is meant to allow for easier, more standards-compliant styling of a webpage using the Cascading Style Sheets language. Just like programming and scripting language libraries, CSS frameworks (usually packaged as external .css sheets inserted into the header) package a number [...]

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1stopfonts A font of the day place. An archive. A font search engine. [Google]

Agfa Font search engine packaged so that one might think it is an independent effort. Not so: Agfa is swamping the net with URLs to capture font traffic. This site leads mainly to Agfa fonts. [Google]

Archive.org Font-related search. [Google]

Columbia University Search for type books [...]

XHTML is dead, long live HTML 5! According to W3C News Archive, XHTML 2 working group is expected to stop work end of 2009 and W3C is planning to increase resources on HTML 5 instead. And even although HTML 5 won’t be completely ready until 2022, it doesn’t mean that it won’t be widely adopted [...]

So, you’re a front-end developer, and you want to start taking advantage of new features in CSS 3 and HTML5. That’s great, but you know that most of your users aren’t running browsers that support these new standards. You could just wait for browsers to get with the times, or you could check out Modernizr.

Modernizr [...]

Installing a fast browser is not always enough to have a good experience when you browse the web: many web pages aren’t optimized for performance. To help webmasters improve their sites, Google launched a new section as part of Google Code: “Let’s make the web faster“, which includes useful articles, videos and downloadable tools.

More than just a plugin, WPtouch is an entire theme package for your WordPress website. Modeled after Apple’s app store design specs, WPtouch makes your WordPress website load lightning fast on touch mobile devices, show your content beautifully, all while not interfering with your regular theme.

WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into a web-application experience [...]

Falcon is a blazing fast visual markup tool that was designed to work with Aviary’s new Firefox Extension (Talon) for screen capture, as well as for stand-alone image preparation.

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Buy a Mac You’ll need one with an Intel-based processor, running the Leopard version of MacOS X. It doesn’t have to be a top of the range model, though. Sign-up as an official developer If you plan on releasing your masterpiece at any point, you’ll need to sign up [...]

This is the showcase for icon collections, that web developers and designer can use them for their work. The requirements of the icons for web will be more about simplicity, understandable metaphor and also light weight. I have collected the icons link below, these collection is strictly for web developer and its free.

Pinvoke – Fugue [...]

A handy collection of bullets for your webdesign needs – these icons can add that little extra to your design and make your site stand out from the crowd.

You may use these icons as you wish, but since the bullets are uploaded by anonymous users, some of them might be subject of copyright law.

Source: StyleGala

Paul Hayes has been playing with CSS transformations and making 3D cubes:

The impression of a three dimensional cube can be created using modern CSS techniques, without the need for JavaScript, imagery, canvas or SVG. Using the proprietary transform property to skew and rotate shaded rectangles, individual cube faces can combine to form a 3D object. [...]

There are many advantages to designing with Cascading Style Sheets. CSS is extremely easy to learn and rework once a basic site framework has been established. Websites, or website components can easily be changed into something totally different just by swapping a single CSS file, or a line within a CSS file.

CSS designers always [...]

According to Jakob Nielsen, these are the 10 most common usability violations found in web applications:

Non-standard interface controls, such as home-grown scrollbars Inconsistency in the way things work, appear and are labelled across the app No providing proper affordances that give people visual clues [...]

Here’s a nice top ten of things not to do when building accessible sites:

Don’t use verbose ALT text. ALT text for information-based images should be short and succinct. Decorative images should never have ALT text. Don’t use random characters, such as [...]

If you are building links for your blog to improve your Google Page Rank and Search Engine Position, submit your blog to these 100 Directories for free. The list is sorted according to their Google page rank. And the best part of it is that there is NO NEED FOR A RECIPROCAL LINK.

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Tools and services to validate css / html / code.

Walidator.com : front end to most common official validators Markup Validation Service : Markup Validation Service by W3.org CSS Validator : CSS Validation Service by W3.org CSSCheck : CSS validator at HTMLHelp [...]

Sites with long, multiple tutorials on CSS.

CSS Basics.com : Learn everything you ever wanted to know about the basics of CSS CSS Tutorials : at EchoEcho CSS Tutorials : Eric Meyer / Meyerweb CSS Tutorials : at Tizag CSS [...]

CSS techniques to overlay images on a webpage.

Lightbox JS : Original; a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. Greased Lightbox : Greasemonkey/Creammonkey/Opera user script designed to enhance browsing on websites that link to images such as Google Image Search, Flickr, Wikipedia, Facebook, MySpace, [...]