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The original, and probably still the best, article on replacing old-school image slicing and dicing with a nice CSS solution. Learn how to build a grid of images and then get each individual image out of the grid. You’ll then be able to store all your buttons, navigation items or whatever in a single master image file…

Interesting article that describes a case scenario for using animated GIFs as a CSS sprite…

You could write a book on website optimization, in fact people already have. But, here’s 10 really easy steps to getting your sites optimized for speed. Hopefully this will get you started and you’ll want to investigate front end optimization a little further…

When they start designing with CSS instead of tables, many web designers fall into the same trap. Instead of putting tables around everything on a page, they use divs instead. The underlying design practices remain largely unchanged. This article will explain the problems with these habits and propose some practical solutions…

Lately I have been very interested in how far we can take Typography only using CSS. Sure you can use images or sIFR to produce some very beautiful typography, but there is something unique and special about using only CSS. It is incredibly useful too, if you know the extent you can take CSS you end up with much more flexible websites— especially ones driven by a CMS…

Remember our good old friend the animated gif? There was a time when the ability to animate GIF’s made web sites a little more fun… or horribly obnoxious. It seems that no one really harnessed the power of animated GIFs, and today the only place they seem to be used are in banner advertisements when flash isn’t available.

One of the more powerful capabilities of CSS is the use of the :hover pseudo selector. It is one of the only abilities we have to alter the behavior of a website simply through XHML and CSS (and there is a debate if this even should be done, but this is more about capabilities rather than theoretical debates of what should/shouldn’t be done)…

Coding HTML email can be a mix of misery and pain for programmers. This article will bring you up to date on how to code HTML email so that it will display well in most email software. I describe the results of my own hands-on experience creating HTML email newsletters for clients, as well as bits of technical information from the Internet…

The Best Designs recognizes the best Flash and CSS web sites from around the world. Websites are categorized by CSS or Flash and also by elements of the design. TBD is usually updated every weekday, with the exception of holidays…

Free online tool to check the appearance of your site in all the major (and even minor) browsers…

A list on using CSS and Javascript techniques to create awesome and useful charts, graphs, bar charts, pie charts or diagrams. Almost all snippets are made freely available and only need simple CSS and Javascript knowledge…