css

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  Russ Weakley - Creating a graph using percentage background images
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  Basic CSS Bar Graph, Complex CSS Bar Graph, Vertical CSS Bar Graph
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  Tobias Lütke
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  This is an example of creating a semi-dynamic pie chart without the use of server-side imaging libraries
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  Things to Do With CSS When You’re Bored at Work
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  Creating a Star Rater using CSS
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  CSS Star Rating Part Deux
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  Example 1
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  Using a list item to create a star rater
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  Example 3

CSS Forms

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  Richard Rutter - clagnut blog
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  It can be time consuming to make web forms both pretty and accessible….
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  Roger Johansson - 456 Berea Street
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  Roger Johansson - 456 Berea Street
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  Most of the CSS-only, table-less forms available suck. So, not wanting to stoop to mediocrity, I decided to take on the task of coming up with something better. This is the result of my efforts…
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  A CSS Stylesheet Collection for Web Forms

CSS Galleries

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  CSS &Flash Design Inspiration
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  CSS wonders, all over the world
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  CSS Beauty focuses on providing its audience with a database of well designed CSS based sites, as well as news and happenings on the CSS Design Community. It showcases designers work and serves as inspiration for those looking to build CSS based websites.
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  CSS Gallery, CSS Examples, Website Showcase and Design Inspiration, CSS Design, CSS Designs, Best Looking Blogs, CSS Tricks, Blog’s and Online Portfolio’s Designs, css & xhtml
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  web sites without tables
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  Inspiration for Webdesigners
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  CSS gallery, code samples, tutorials, and more
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  CSS Design Gallery and Website Development Resources
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  We show you the best of the best
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  this is a showcase gallery of the finest CSS sites that I can find on the net, They are here in all there glory free to feast your eyes upon.
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  Most sites are CSS-based. Some galleries include Flash sites too!
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  CSS Gallery
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  The no-frills CSS Gallery
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  CSS Web Design Gallery, featuring the most inspiring and beautiful sites on the web today
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  CSSmania, the most updated css showcase all over the globe
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  CSS Reboot is a community event for web professionals……
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  Tite site collection, conforms to Web Standards and designed with CSS
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  Data Tables and Cascading Style Sheets Gallery
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  CSS-Based Website Gallery
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  CSS Gallery
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  A repository of sites using cascading style sheets and a list of resources
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  A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design
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  The CSS Table Gallery is a showcase of how CSS and data tables can work together to create usable and pretty results.
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  Design elements, trends, and problems in web design, examples and resources
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  Design Shack offers regular examples of great CSS, standards based design to help inspire and create. We feature any website which shows off some flair, and doesn’t fit into the standard pattern we come to expect from CSS design.
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  a collection of 40 CSS layouts based on the same markup and ready for download!
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  Liquid Designs is a gallery of websites designed with liquid layouts using XHTML and CSS
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  German Showcase Blog
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  Download and upload free web designs
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  collecting best practice web standards design examples
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  CSS Gallery
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  CSS/XHTML Layout Gallery
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  screenspire.com is a no-embellishment, no-comments, no-technology-favored source for recent website-designs collected from various portals and handcrafted by thomas marban
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  The best of Greek CSS web design.
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  Stylegala is an online resource and inspiration guide for web agencies, designers and developers who take interest in websites that combine the powers of design, web standards and CSS.
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  A handpicked and growing collection of fine screendesigns.
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  Standards/CSS-based Web Design in the Corporate World
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  Get inspiration from the CSS Gallery archives
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  A collection of web standards compliant web sites and their designers
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  Web design inspiration
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  Webdesign reference book - We are releasing a book with about 150 of the greatest webdesigns. Come and submit your own work for the book!
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  Awarding web sites that successfully combine form and function
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  Well-Designed Weblogs series is a subjective and non-scientific selection of usable and readable weblogs that are defined as having: An aesthetically pleasing design that has been accomplished through the use of stylesheets rather than layout tables, font tags, and inline images.

CSS Image Maps, Image Switcher, Sliding Photograph Galleries

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  Below is a sample image map that’s built entirely using CSS and XHTML…
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  This experiment uses CSS to create an image map with CSS pop-ups
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  FotoNotes™ RolloverViewer is an open-source PHP script which will read a FotoNote™-annotated image and create an imagemap with Javascript rollovers to display the image’s notes…
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  This is a pure CSS image switcher that is lightweight and standards-compliant. It could be used for a gallery or any similar function…..
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  I didn’t use nested unordered lists. Instead, I used just one unordered list…
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  Stu Nicholls
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  …super light-weight (8kb) roll-over photo gallery that uses nothing but CSS…
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  Stu Nicholls Photo Galleries - vertical slide & horizontal slide

CSS Layouts Templates

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  Stu Nicholls - Three columns, CSS frame, “Fixed”, Cross browser….
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  All templates are XHTML 1.0 and CSS2
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  list of all Zen Garden designs added to date..980+ layouts
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  3 Column CSS Layout - Fluid, Multi-Column Stretch - Header, Footer, Fluid Center - Fixed or Fluid widths
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  by Alessandro Fulciniti - a collection of 40 CSS layouts based on the same markup and ready for download!
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  CSS Layout Techniques: for Fun and Profit
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  css-discuss - Bob Easton
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  Download and upload free web designs
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  Download and upload free web designs
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  Here are a range of CSS page layouts, including 2 column and 3 column layouts - free to use and abuse as needed
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  A multi-column layout

Lightboxes

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  Cody Lindley - ThickBox is a webpage UI dialog widget written in JavaScript on top of the jQuery library. Its function is to show a single image, multiple images, inline content, iframed content, or content served through AJAX in a hybrid modal.
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  Particletree - Chris Campbell
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  Jonathan Christopher
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  by Lokesh Dhakar
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  takuya otani - Lightbox JS is very cool and useful script to display an image on the page
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  Simon de Haan · Eight Media

CSS Lists, Navigation, Menus, Rollovers

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  How to use CSS to create a horizontal navigation bar out of a simple ordered list
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  by Michal Wojciechowski
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  Didier Hilhorst
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  Here is a gallery of CSS web menus created with CSS style sheets and without tables
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  The navigation bar shown here is achieved via 3 images, a bit of CSS and some JavaScript.
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  Free CSS Navigation Menu Designs at ExplodingBoy - Familiar to dozens
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  Free Menu Designs - e-lusion.com
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  This is an XHTML compliant, CSS-formatted menu script, designed to work with the current generation of standards-based websites….
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  More Free CSS Navigation Menu Designs at ExplodingBoy - Familiar to dozens.
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  The idea behind this experiment is to create an unordered list of links scale according to your hover position, like the icons work in the Mac OS X Dock, using the magnification effect.
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  14 Free Vertical CSS Menu at ExplodingBoy - Familiar to dozens
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  Our CSS Menu Generator will generate both the CSS and the HTML code required to produce a text-based yet appealing set of navigation buttons.
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  CSS Tab Designer is a unique and easy to use software to help you design css-based lists and tabs visually and without any programming knowledge required!
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  BrainJar - “In this example, we’ll look at using CSS to build a tabbed display…”
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  Sandbox - Stephen Clark
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  Here’s a rough and ready example showing how to make a folder analalogy using a nested list.
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  SimpleBits - Dan Cederholm - Accessible Image-Tab Rollovers
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  example page for Suckerfish Dropdowns
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  When using CSS image rollovers, two, three, or more images must be loaded….
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  Stu Nicholls - CSSplay

Miscellaneous

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  The first step in architecting our CSS is to devise a plan for organizing our files…..
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  Tip 1: Flags
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  Cameron Moll - Authentic Boredom
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  The CSS Advanced Guide is for those who want to push CSS to the extreme, highlighting methods that might not be immediately obvious to the intermediate developer.
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  This is not a complete resource, this is a fast resource….
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  List of CSS and Design Showcases
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  The CSS Table Gallery is a showcase of how CSS and data tables can work together to create usable and pretty results.
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  Practical CSS codes and examples
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  Stu Nicholls - Experiments with Cascading Style Sheets
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  Floats, Containers, margins, …Centering, Shrink wrapping, Images, Miscellaneous, hacks, inline-block, Layouts, Tables…
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  Stylish allows easy management of user styles. User styles empower your browsing experience by letting you fix ugly sites, customize the look of your browser or mail client, or just have fun
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  The Professor X extension for Firefox let’s you see inside a page’s head without viewing the sourcecode
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  The X-Ray extension let’s you see the tags on a page without viewing the sourcecode.
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  A simple CSS property viewer.

Tips & Tricks

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  By: John Gallant , Holly Bergevin
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  Using :before and :after pseudo elements to create beautiful drop shadow on standard browsers. Use built-in drop-shadow filter for Ie.
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  Drop Shadows are a nice way to beautify images….
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  Simple trick to help you on CSS hacks!
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  Will the browser apply the rule(s)?
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  maratz.com - Marko Dugonji
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  Link Thumbnail shows users that are about to leave your site exactly where they’re going
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  Eric A. Meyer
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  Using lightweight images, simple markup, and a small amount of CSS, I will demonstrate a method of creating round corners on elastic or liquid boxes
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  Spanky Corners’ is an experimental technique for using only CSS to produce ’round-cornered content boxes’ with semantically pure markup. It does not require JavaScript to work
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  A Simple, Semantically Correct CSS Box with Clean Code
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  Adaptable rounded edges - a multifunctional flexible css-concept with transparency for creating dynamically changing not rectangular borders
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  Is there a way to display text-based data on a map, keeping it accessible, useful and visually attractive?
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  A Slider with CSS. Without , Javascript, Flash oder animated gifs
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  This example demonstrates using CSS to graphically display standard playing cards on a web page…

Slideshows

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  Eric A. Meyer - What Is S5? - It’s a Simple Standards-based Slide Show System
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  Dave Raggett - Slide Shows in XHTML
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  Create your slideshow in only 3 steps

CSS Tables

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  Data Tables and Cascading Style Sheets Gallery
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  Zebra Tables is a script that applies different background colors to odd or even table–rows…
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  Using CSS to allow scrolling within a single HTML table

CSS (and JS)Tooltips

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  Bubble Tooltips are an easy way to add (via a bit of CSS and javascript) fancy tooltips with a balloon shape to any web page.
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  qTip will work on all like elements that are on the page. You can specify any HTML tag as your preferred element. Since the title attribute can be applied to any HTML element, this technique is standards compliant!
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  JavaScript Fading Tooltips
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  …is the NEXT GENERATION in Tooltips; using the Web 2.0 approach of doing a simple thing, and doing it well.

Articles

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  Written by Christian Heilmann 01/2004
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  Roger Johansson - 456 Berea Street -Create the visual effect of HTML frames with CSS and make the scrolling area stretch to 100 % height regardless of the amount of content.”
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  Position Is Everything - A discussion of the theory of CSS floating
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  By: Zoe Gillenwater
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  More and more web documents are appearing that consist of nothing more than a collection of div elements. In most cases, better use of CSS selectors could be used to avoid overusing the div element.
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  Jonathan Christopher
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  by Bobby van der Sluis
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  Cameron Adams - The Man in Blue
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  Position Is Everything
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  Robert Nyman
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  by Contributor Melonfire
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  Trenton Moss - Follow up to the popular article, Ten CSS tricks you may not know…..
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  Sean Fraser - The Elementary Group Standards
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  Yuhu’s Definitive Solution with Unknown Height

Tutorials

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  By Rogelio Vizcaino Lizaola and Andy King
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  Making Cascading Style Sheets Easy to Understand
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  CSS, or ‘Cascading Styles Sheets’ are a way to style HTML. Whereas the HTML is the content, the style sheet is the presentation of that document.
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  Like the HTML Intermediate Guide, this CSS Intermediate Guide should not be that difficult, but rather build on the basics of the CSS Beginner’s Guide.
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  The CSS Advanced Guide is for those who want to push CSS to the extreme, highlighting methods that might not be immediately obvious to the intermediate developer.
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  CSS and HTML examples, demonstrations and tutorials
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  A resource for web designers and developers who want to learn CSS layout techniques to replace archaic table-based web page layouts..
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  Horizontal and Vertical CSS Menu Tutorials
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  CSS Tutorial von w3schools.com
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  The Complete CSS tutorial
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  Floatutorial takes you through the basics of floating elements such as images, drop caps, next and back buttons, image galleries, inline lists and multi-column layouts.
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  This tutorial examines the different layout properties available in CSS: position:static, position:relative, position:absolute, and float
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  Listutorial takes you through the basics of building background image lists, rollover lists, nested lists and horizontal lists
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  Selectors are one of the most important aspects of CSS as they are used to “select” elements on an HTML page so that they can be styled.
  Find out more about selectors including the structure of rules, the document tree, types of selectors and their uses. There is also a step-by-step tutorial showing how selectors are used in the process of building a 3-column layout.
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  by Andrew Krespanis - Making Simple Work of Complex CSS Layouts
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  hands on css tutorial - This tutorial teaches CSS using both hand-coding and Style Master for Windows.
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  The House of Style has several cascading style sheets tutorials, with explanations, excercises and worked examples to get you up and running with style sheets as quickly as possible.
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  Cascading style sheets tutorials and style guide