Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design
“give programmers some tricks and some advice in how to proceed to make their web pages look cleaner, more readable and, hopefully, more professional, elegant and original than before.”
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Boks
“Boks is an AIR application (so it works on Windows, Mac and Linux) that provides a User Interface for Blueprint CSS’s framework. It’s been designed for those who think the Grid System is good but never really took the time to give it love. It handles grid configuration, baseline rhythm pimpin’, CSS (with or without compression) and grid.png export, HTML layout and much more goodie-goodie!”
The Ultimate Website Launch Checklist
The Ultimate Website Launch Checklist
Nice list (available in PDF) to go through and check things off when launching a site.
15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website
15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website
Good macro list of things to check/do before launching a new website (or major revision).
Cross-Browser Inline-Block
How to achieve the equivalent of display: inline-block in all browsers with a few hacks and techniques. Nice.
Elegant Themes
Premium WordPress theme provider. $19.95 per year for access to all of their themes with updates and any new ones. They have some very slick ones.
IETester
“IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 2, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.”
Smooth Image Resizing in IE
Apparently Internet Explorer uses a stupid default resizing method, which causes images to pixelate when they are made smaller via HTML. Add this CSS extension to smooth things out.
psd 2 CSS Online
Interesting tool that claims to be able to take a PSD and convert it into CSS/XHTML, including jQuery for some features and do it all, automatically.
MobileAwesomeness
Gallery/showcase of cool design and functionality for mobile devices. Very nice.