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10 Examples of Beautiful CSS Typography and how they did it

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 […]
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Crème de la crème of CSS Galleries

The galleries of CSS-based designs showcase exemplary design practices, solutions, ideas and templates. Once you have no idea what you should do next with your web-site, it’s worth taking a look at some beautiful works – crème de la crème of CSS-designs – out there…
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20 of the best Ecommerce Websites

Here’s a list of well designed, standards-compliant E-commerce stores. These are tricky sites to get right and design can give way to conversions, which is after all, the reason they are there – to make money. There’s a balance of sites which get the design and usability right, focused on sites that sell tangible products […]
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How C.R.A.P is Your Site Design?

Good good design is based on the C.R.A.P. principles where C.R.A.P. stands for Contrast Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity. When Creative Directors tell you that your design is crap, they’re actually giving you positive reinforcement…
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Textile Quick Reference

Textile is a markup language developed by Dean Allen and billed as a “humane Web text generator”. It converts marked-up text input to valid, well-formed XHTML. It also inserts character entity references for apostrophes, opening and closing single and double quotation marks, ellipses and em dashes. Here’s a quick reference…
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How to Size Text in CSS

In this AListApart article, they attempt to reconcile the designer’s requirement for accuracy with the user’s need to resize text on demand, arriving at a best practice that satisfies designers and users and works across browsers and platforms.
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