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This is a list of CSS hacks, each of which does something a little different. This might be especially helpful for the personal pages, which don't translate from browser to browser without some intervention.

CSS browser hack

This site is a compressor for your CSS page. I don't really know how it works, but it uses magic to squish everything and make it load faster. I thought it would be useful for anyone who wants to continue to expand their page and will evventually need a boost.

CSS compressor speed

This is a blog posting about the 15 tricks every web designer should know when working with CSS.

CSS Reboot is an event for members of the web community, designed as a showcase for their interests and work. Throughout the year, people who are interested in participating sign up and sumbit information about the website; in November and May, at a certain time, everyone launches the re-designs of their sites for other event attenders to look at.

re-design web community community event gallery

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It's pretty self-explanatory; the article gives 10 common mistakes people makes when writing pages with CSS. Although some of them seem like "duh," I know that it's often something really tiny that throws a spanner in the works when I'm trying to code a page.

CSS mistakes

This blog post presents several options for creating a CSS page with multiple columns, including the faux column method we learned about in class and a JavaScript solution that I had never heard of. The option that uses pure CSS is explained thoroughly with examples.

CSS multiple columns howto

CSSBloom is a collective/gallery of CSS designs that are submitted for ratings by visitors.

CSS gallery collective

This page allows the user to type and adjust text using controls similar to those found in Word, which the site then generates into CSS code.

CSS typography generator

This is an entry from someone's blog. It's low-tech, but I thought it raised an interesting point about web literacy, namely that people are picking up these skills without even realizing what they're doing or how it relates to more than just an online game.

learning CSS literacy skills

This page is another reference page for creating a site with a three-column layout. The how-to uses only CSS for the layout, rahter than using tables in HTML.

CSS three column layout tableless

three column liquid layout

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