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60+ Links to Help You Learn CSS Web Design

Monday, September 28th, 2009

CSS Web Design Resources

I have had many people ask me what resources do I learn from, when it comes to being a modern day webmaster.  Now, there are many resources out there – but here are 60 of the best links (taken from my own bookmarks to your browser) to assist you in mastering the art of CSS in web design.

  1. Perfect 3 Column CSS Liquid Layout. No Images, Cross-browser
  2. CSS Zen Garden
  3. 5 Tips For Instantly Writing Better CSS
  4. Andy Budd CSS/Web Standards Links
  5. Mastering CSS: Styling Design Elements
  6. Nice CSS How-To and Template site
  7. CSSDog
  8. Free CSS Templates
  9. ͩCSchools CSS Tutorial
  10. CSS-based Navigation Menus
  11. CSSeasy.com
  12. Divine CSS – CSS Showcase Gallery
  13. SlickMap CSS
  14. 15 Great CSS Galleries
  15. Ultimate list of CSS hacks
  16. Styling <hr> with CSS
  17. 101 High Quality CSS And XHTML Free Templates And Layouts
  18. 35 CSS-Lifesavers For Efficient Web Design
  19. CSS Portal
  20. Clean CSS – Optimize & Format Your CSS
  21. CSS Basics
  22. CSS on Delicious
  23. Top 50 Best CSS Articles and Resources
  24. Sitepoint CSS Tutorials
  25. 20 CSS Short Hands You’ll Love
  26. CSS-Tricks
  27. Listamatic – Styled Lists
  28. 20 Useful CSS Tips for Beginners
  29. Mastering CSS: Advanced Techniques and Tools
  30. UniqueCSS.com
  31. 5 Popular CSS Frameworks + Great Tutorials &amp Tools
  32. CSS Design
  33. Web Design from Scratch: CSS
  34. HTML Dog – HTML and CSS Tutorials
  35. Open Design Community
  36. Position is Everything
  37. SitePoint CSS Reference
  38. CSS Help Pile
  39. CSS Positioning
  40. 10 Creative & Rich UI interfaces & How to Create Them
  41. Aeon Interactive
  42. CSS from the Ground Up
  43. CSS tutorial of the Float element
  44. 30 Exceptional CSS Navigation Techniques
  45. CSS Layout Techniques
  46. 456 Berea Street – CSS category
  47. Sexy Drop Down Menu w/ jQuery & CSS
  48. A List Apart CSS Topics
  49. Ruthsarian Layouts
  50. W3C – Cascading Style Sheets
  51. Learn CSS
  52. CSS Articles & Resources
  53. PSD to HTML/CSS & Implementation
  54. The CSS Gallery List
  55. Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps
  56. Holy CSS Zeldman!
  57. 30 Exceptional CSS Techniques and Examples
  58. Eric Meyer: CSS
  59. 50 Beautiful and User-Friendly Navigation Menus
  60. CSS Navigation Magnification
  61. 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab-Based Navigation Scripts
  62. CSS Tricks
  63. minimalsites.com
  64. HTML Dog CSS Tutorials
  65. CSS Perk

Know of another great CSS tutorial or resource that you would like to share?  Don’t be shy!  Leave a comment, and add it on the list as pick number 66, pick number 67, pick number 68, and so on. 

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A Dedicated Design Resource for Web Designers

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Web Designer Resources @ for Web Designers

Who would have ever thought to look for web designer resources at a place called forwebdesigners.com?  It is so simple, its brilliant.  Here you will find some of the most popular resources for (you guessed it) web designers.  From fonts, to CSS resources to everything in between – it has something everybody can get something out of.  No matter if you are a web designer just getting started, or an old pro – this is a resource to bookmark.

Just to give you a little taste of what is in store, here are some of the great sites I found looking under the “inspiration” category:

Check out the rest, and be sure to let us know about some of the great resources you find. 

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Best Cheat Sheets for Web Development

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Cheat sheets are becoming a popular way of storing a lot of little tips and tricks all at one central location.  Now in all honesty, none of us are really “cheating” by making use of these tools.  We are just giving our brains a little help when we don’t remember the exact code or steps on how to do things.  When it comes to web development, there are a lot of different cheat sheets available to use.

Here are a few cheat sheets I like to keep handy:

There are a number of different resources for cheat sheets too.  Here are a few of my favorites (just in case the one you were looking for is missing from the list above). 

What are some of the various cheat sheets out there that you enjoy?  Having these handy helpers close to you can really help when it comes to finding out an answer quick, without having to memorize a lot of data. 

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7 Great Joomla Template Resources

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

I recently had a Lunartics reader e-mail me in search of a few good Joomla theme resources.  Looking around the Web, I started to search out some of the best Joomla theme resources out there, and here are the ones I found.Joomla Help

Have another Joomla theme or template resource worth sharing?  Leave a comment, cause I would love to get a few more suggestions. 

Also be sure to check out our Joomla support page via the web hosting wiki.  Tons of more great information about Joomla there for you to use there, and tons more being added all the time.

Joomla is by far one of the easiest to use CMS (content management system) scripts out there, and there are tons of ways to make it your own by simply adding a new skin.

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Original post by Mitch

Free ICO and PNG Icon Sets

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Can’t turn down a deal that is free, right?  One of my new favorite places to go for icons is IconsPedia.  They are one of the best sources around for free icons. 

Free Icons!

Now are the icons really free?  Yes they are!  You just need to make sure you stick the rules in that each specific icon pack’s read me file or license agreement.  In some cases, the artist may ask for credit or a link back at the most.  If it isn’t specified, then you can usually contact the author of the icons to see what are the limitations or guidelines on using their work.

You can also submit your own icon creations to the collection. 

Overall, this is one great place to bookmark – no matter if you are looking to spice up your own web site design or just give your computer’s desktop a fresh set of new decorations.

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7 Design Sites to Help the Ugly “Make Money Quick!” Crowd

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

By Mitch “Hates Info-mercial Web Design” Keeler

Stop Bad Design!Why is it that almost every eBook or “great money making deal” that you see out there is always based around a web page that looks like it was built back in 1995?  That is a question that has just plauged my mind forever.

As an act of public service - I am going to now donate my time to these poor saps and find them a few basic design tutorials that they can read and learn from (hopefully).

CSS Tinderbox

Web Designer Wall

Smashing Magazine

A List Apart

Digital Web

NETTUTS

woork

Know of anymore CSS or design magazine-style sites that we could send to the people who keep making these ugly eBook or “make money quick” sites?  Share the wealth!

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Original post by Mitch

7 Design Sites to Help the Ugly “Make Money Quick!” Crowd

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

By Mitch “Hates Info-mercial Web Design” Keeler

Stop Bad Design!Why is it that almost every eBook or “great money making deal” that you see out there is always based around a web page that looks like it was built back in 1995?  That is a question that has just plauged my mind forever.

As an act of public service - I am going to now donate my time to these poor saps and find them a few basic design tutorials that they can read and learn from (hopefully).

CSS Tinderbox

Web Designer Wall

Smashing Magazine

A List Apart

Digital Web

NETTUTS

woork

Know of anymore CSS or design magazine-style sites that we could send to the people who keep making these ugly eBook or “make money quick” sites?  Share the wealth!

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Original post by Mitch

Dataopedia - All You Need to Know

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

By Mitch “Loves Handy Resources” Keeler

I have found a resource that will tell you almost everything there is to know about any web site or domain out there today.  The name?  Dataopedia.com.

Dataopedia

From Google PageRank to popularity on the various “best of the web” resources like Alexa, you get a view of how your domain is doing around the Web in just seconds.

Want an example of the results you get?  Try searching for the Lunartics blog:

http://dataopedia.com/blog-lunarpages-com

Here are a few more tools and resources you can use with Dataopedia:

So this way you can use the data from Dataopedia in any way you need.  This is an excellent resource that keeps getting better and better.

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Free Web Site Backgrounds?

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

By Mitch &quotFinding Freebies&quot Keeler

I am always happy to help when we get a question in here to the Lunartics blog to answer.  This time around we were asked if we knew of any free background resources?  Here are a few of the best ones I have found.

Backgrounds can often add flair and class to a usually boring and mundane web site.  Know of another great place to find your tiled or large web site backgrounds?

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Porta - Lightweight Gallery Tool

Monday, February 18th, 2008

By Mitch “Not Going to Make a Porta Potty Joke” Keeler

If you are looking for a lightweight program that will help you create a great looking photo gallery look no further than Porta. Porta can turn any directory filled with images into a neatly formatted photo album for the web.

This program is not only lightweight, it is also fast, simple to use and it produces pages that are simple in nature. They are not cluttered up with a lot of junk you do not want or need and look absolutely awesome in any modern web browser.

porta-image-gallery

Porta Pro: Super easy to use. If you can fill in text boxes, you can create a beautiful gallery.

Porta Con: Wish it came with a way to upload the images to the server.

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The hardest thing about using Porta is browsing to the directory your images is in. That is it! The rest of the process is so easy I can not put it into words. You can also caption pictures and put in a footer message too (such as a copyright notice). Overall I have to say I am super impressed with Porta and would suggest it to anybody who needs help creating a simple gallery of images.

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Original post by Mitch