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Cascading Style Sheets

The Advantages of Using External CSS
Using Multiple Style Sheets
External, Internal or Inline CSS? Which Method is Best?
Extend Your List Bullets Selection with CSS
Colored Scrollbars with CSS
Concave vs. Convex Scrollbars
Create 3D Buttons with CSS
Watermarks with Cascading Style Sheets
Dotted, Dashed and Soline Line Separators with CSS
How to Remove Link Underlines
How to Change Table Cell Background Colors on Mouseover using CSS
Fix Your Background Image and Scroll Your Page Text
Easy Background Borders using CSS
Horizontal Rules using Cascading Style Sheets
Colorize Your Web Forms using CSS
Dotted Link Rollovers
Emphasize it and Grab Their Attention
Custom Head Tags with Style Sheets
Resizing Form Input Boxes, Buttons and Text with CSS
CSS Shorthand, Part 1: Padding & Margins
CSS Shorthand, Part 2: Borders
Relative and Absolute Paths in Style Sheets
Novel Paragraph Spacing with CSS
Blinking Text with CSS
Text Between Two Images with CSS and without Tables
Which Font-Size? Px, Pt or Em?
Paragraph Line Height with Cascading Style Sheets
X-It-Out using CSS
Background Images only in Table Cells with CSS
Why You Should Use Comments in Style Sheets
Paragraph Indents
Highlighted Text Effect
Easy Borders and Backgrounds using CSS
Newspaper Column Effect: Justified Page Text
Removing Space Around Forms
Color Coordinate Your Web Forms with your Web Site using CSS
Why Should Use External CSS on Your Web Site?

Web Design Tips

Creating Complimentary Color Combos
Psychology of Color in Web Design
Jazz Up Those Buttons with Icon Accents
Quick & Easy IFrames
Instant HTML Slideshow
The Web Site Diet
Intro to SSI (Server Side Includes)
Ideas for Custom "Thank You" Pages
Why You Should Use Custom 404 Error Pages
Cursor Craziness: Tired of the Dauft Arrow?
How to Design Web Pages for the Way a Website is Really Used, Part 1
How to Design Web Pages for the Way a Website is Really Used, Part 2
Should You Use CSS-P (Table-less Layouts) on Your Website?
What is Liquid Design?
Using Special Keyboard Characters as List Bullets and Link Separators
White-Space: De-Clutter Your Website
Decrease Your Page Load: Reuse Your Graphics
Displaying a Visitor's IP Number on Your Website
The Advantages of Using Navigational Icons
ReDesigning Your Website: The Do's and Dont's
Displaying the Current Date on Your Website
Using Custom Web Form Buttons
HTML Forms: Is Your Site Interactive?
Drawing Attention to Your Web Forms
When and How to Hyperlink to an Area on the Same Web Page
How to Be a Happy Freelance Designer
What to Do When Your Competitor Gets Ugly
What is a Web Designer?
KISS: Keep It Simple Stupid
Flash is Cool: But Is It For Your Web Site?
Keeping Content Fresh
The Cure for L-O-N-G Web Pages
Gone Are the Days of Splash Pages
Quickie Popup Windows with Javascript
Do Spacer Images Make Your Web Site FAT?

More Web Design Tips

The Sneaky Truth About Awards Programs
Never Assume: Are You Losing Sales Because of Poor Ad Copy?
Preventing Your Website From being Framed
Planning an Effective Website the "First Time"
Why You Should Never Ask Visitors to Download Special Fonts to View Your Website
Control the Search Engines: No Cache, Please
Motivate Your Website Visitors to Report a Bug or Error
Offering "Print this Page" on Your Website
Redirecting Your Website Visitors

Cheap CSS Tricks

Part 1: "Link" Tricks
Part 2: "Link" Tricks
Part 3: "Font" Tricks
Part 4: "Color" Tricks
Part 5: "Background Image"
Part 6: "Text Effect" Tricks
Part 7: "Text Effect" Tricks

Graphic Design Tips

Adding Text to Images
Adding Text to Images: Common Mistakes
Design Off and On Buttons
Stretching Images
Why You Should Consider Using Button Accents
Emphasing a Product with Monochrome Graphics
Systematically Naming Your Graphics
How to Create a Favicon

Web Template Tips

25 Questions to Ask a Web Template Designer Before You Buy
How to Spot a Good Web Template Design
The Truth About Cookie-Cutter Layouts
Web Templates Designs: FAT vs. PHAT
Exclusive or Non-Exclusive Web Templates: Design Saturation?
The Myth About Multi-Page Web Template Packages
Frontpage vs. Dreamweaver vs CSS-HTML Web Templates: Which type of web template and HTML Editor is best?
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