Powerfull CSS Techniques

When CSS technology was introduced, it was a breakthrough technology in Web design because it allowed developers to control the style and layout of multiple Web pages all at once. However, in my experience, a lot of designers back then and even now primarily use CSS to style the fonts and HTML elements.

CSS is a very powerful tool that does a lot more and gives you a big bonus…faster web page load time! With your styles in an external .css file, the browser can cache all the formatting and stylizing for your pages instead of having to read every single HTML tag every time a page is being loaded.

Please make sure to test your CSS code in all browsers. You can also follow this CSS contents and browser compatibility chart.

Smashing magazine came out with a great list of powerful CSS Techniques for effective coding.

Here is a list of techniques that they cover:

1. Triadic Background Setting with CSS
2. Creative Use of PNG Transparency in Web Design
3. CSS Server-Side Pre-Processor
4. Advanced CSS Menu
5. CSS SiteMap
6. Styling File Inputs with CSS and the DOM
7. A Savvy Approach to Copyright Messaging
8. Particletree Category List
9. Advanced CSS Menu Trick
10. CSS hover effect
11. Creating a table with dynamically highlighted columns like Crazy Egg’s pricing table
12. A Stripe of List Style Inspiration
13. Rediscovering the Button Element
14. Dynamic CSS With Variables
15. Hyperlink Cues with Favicons
16. A CSS styled table version 2
17. CSS Step Menu
18. Creating bulletproof graphic link buttons with CSS | 456 Berea Street
19. Iconize Textlinks with CSS
20. Better Ordered Lists (Using Simple PHP and CSS)
21. Circular Menu with CSS
22. CSS Dock Menu
23. Digg-like navigation bar using CSS
24. 13 Awesome JavaScript CSS Menus
25. CSS Pricing Matrix
26. CSS List Expander
27. How to create VISTA style toolbar with CSS
28. Fade Out Bottom
29. Scrollovers – A New Way of Linking
30. How to Style an A to Z Index with CSS
31. CSS List Boxes
32. How-to create a “Table of Contents” Navigation
33. CSS Recipe for Success
34. Partial Opacity
35. Simple Round CSS Links (Wii Buttons)
36. How to make sexy buttons with CSS
37. CSS Pull Quotes
38. Drop Shadow CSS
39. CSS Speech Bubbles
40. CSS Double Lists
41. Perspective Text with CSS
42. Better Email Links: Featuring CSS Attribute Selectors
43. CSS: Menu Descriptions
44. CSS Transparency Settings for All Browsers
45. Time Sensitive CSS Switcher
46. Custom Reading Containers
47. Eric Meyer’s CSS Reset
48. PNG Overlay
49. Turning Lists into Trees
50. Create Resizable Images With CSS

For more great CSS techniques, check out:

CSS Techniques Of All Time- Part 1
CSS Techniques Of All Time- Part 2
53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without
Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks, & Techniques

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