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25 Flabbergasting Examples of CSS Web Design

CSS has opened new avenues in Web Design. This post has a collection of 25 websites designed using CSS to inspire you.

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10 WordPress plugins to enhance your blog’s typography

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Have you ever visited a blog and noticed immediately how the typography added sophistication and really made the content stand out? Perhaps it was an elegant typeface that fit the theme of the blog, or white space that was used proficiently throughout the layout. Whatever it was, it caught your eye, and you probably wondered how they did it.
These kinds of readability enhancements are done either via manual CSS styling or with plug-ins. If you’re not familiar with CSS coding, then plug-ins are definitely the way to go, and this article highlights the top 10 typography-related WordPress plug-ins for enhancing the readability of your blog.

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25 Beautiful CSS Web Designs for Inspiration

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Many people consider CSS based web designs to be somewhat limiting, but nothing could be further from the truth. Although Flash has previously been the technology of choice when it comes to developing dynamic, interactive or visually-oriented websites, CSS should not be overlooked for its power and abilities.

Particularly with the advent of CSS3 and HTML5, the possibilities are almost limitless. In this post, Suraj has gathered up 25 beautiful CSS web designs for inspiration and to show you that beautiful design can be achieved with CSS.

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CSS Buttons: Tutorials and examples

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Creating buttons with CSS is one of the most experimented-with web design techniques around. Examples and tutorials abound.
The biggest recent trend in CSS button design seems to be eliminating images, especially background images, from buttons. But there are plenty of other things designers are doing with buttons, some that do include images.
Below we’ve collected more than twenty tutorials, examples, and tools for creating CSS buttons, most of which use CSS3.

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Minify CSS and JavaScript with “Smaller” for Mac

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Smaller is a neat little Mac app whereby you can batch minify CSS and JavaScript files, using Yahoo’s YUI Compressor, through a user friendly, drag-and-drop graphical interface. Minifying these files makes them much lighter, making your sites load faster while saving on bandwidth. Smaller is an ideal tool for Web designers and developers who are not big fans of using the command line, or if you have a large amount of CSS and JavaScript files to batch process.

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20 Fantastic pseudo-Flash websites

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A pseudo-Flash website is one that looks, feels and acts like a Flash website but is in fact built on good old-fashioned HTML and CSS.
There is usually also a dash of JavaScript to bring things to life and round out the interface.
The result is often beyond what we have come to expect of HTML and CSS, which is why we might assume the website is Flash-based. Right-click, though, and you will be pleasantly surprised.

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30 Helpful CSS Cheat Sheets

Some time saving CSS Cheat sheets that will definitely save your time and energy. Remember each step of transition from CSS to CSS3.

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Dos and Don’ts of an Effective Web Designing

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Web designing aims at delivering content to end users in an organized and attractive way. Depending on the nature of site, the content offered may be hypertext or hypermedia and accessed by end users through a web browser. Full website designing involves use of documents, sounds and images.

Designing components can be broadly classified into two categories – back-end and front end. Front-end components include text, images, graphics, layout, sound and user-interface. Scripts and codes are usually referred as back end components. Irrespective of the size and nature of the site, there are some basic points that should be followed while crafting a site.

Here are do’s and don’ts of effective web designing that may help you in designing a site.

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Stop obsessing over HTML5 and CSS3

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As web designers, we all seem obsessed by HTML5 and CSS3 at the moment. Endless posts, tutorials and discussion about them dominate the blogosphere. But how much are we learning that can be applied today?
Don’t get me wrong. We all need to understand HTML5 and CSS3. And a lot of it can be used today.

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Development – An interactive keyboard Apple made with CSS 3 and Javascript

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