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Top 5 development tips I find incredibly useful: 1. Use a CSS Reset – we’ve implemented this in our product (it can be turned off). I personally recommend Eric Meyer’s: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/ 2. Keep a toolbox of good sites for recommendations, news and coding ideas – a few that...

We're pretty busy here at Sitemasher, so I'm going to make this quick. I often get asked where I look for new and interesting ideas for CSS coding. Well, you're in luck. I'll share a few of those with you today: CSS Beauty - they search out many of the lastest and greatest CSS ideas and pass them a...

It's been pretty busy around here at Sitemasher. Our product was released for public consumption at the start of October, so there's been a lot to do. Now that it's out there, I'd like to give you a quick tour of how CSS works in there. Basically, in Sitemasher, CSS can be approached in three ways:...

When writing CSS code, I often use a great program for Mac called CSS Edit. One of the things I like most about it is that they've integrated code "grouping" into their left-side style list. This allows me to code these groups and view them in Windows Explorer-like folders and hierarchies. It's very...

This is just a quick follow-up to my post last week. While reading Webappers.com, I came across their write-up on the Unit PNG Fix. Ihad the chance to use it this weekend on a personal project and it worked like a charm. As they point out on their site, it definitely has its upside: Very compact ja...

Over the weekend, I was doing some work for a friend of mine and came across the annoying lack of support for PNG transparency in IE6. This brought to mind 2 things: WHY ARE THERE STILL PEOPLE USING IE6??If I use the work-around, the site's CSS will no longer validate properly.Seriously though... wh...

Hi there folks. Welcome to CSS Ninja. As you may have seen over there on the right, I'm Sean. I'm a front-end web developer by trade and much of the work I've done over the last bunch of years has involved Cascading Style Sheets (CSS from now on), including one job at which my official title was act...

Since we're at the start of this blog, why not start off with something that many people put at the top of their style sheets, a CSS reset. There are definitely folks out there who don't subscribe to the reset school of thought. Personally, I'm a fan. I use Eric A. Meyer's CSS Reset. Now you may be...