Resources



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CSS Galleries/Inspiration


CSS Zen Garden
A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design. Select any style sheet from the list to load it into the page.
 
CSS Vault
Inspiring creativity. Instead of showing off great sites to everyone, let's show off great sites that use CSS so we can inspire others to use the technology.
 
CSS Beauty

CSS Beauty is a project focused on providing its audience with a database of well designed CSS based websites from around the world.Its purpose is to showcase designers' work and to act as a portal to the CSS design community.

 
CSS Heaven

CSS Heaven is all about Fresh and innovative CSS / XHTML web designs submitted by web designers from around the world.

 
CSS Remix

CSS Remix celebrates the dynamic innovation and creativity of designers who are on the forefront of CSS-based web design. This community honors those designers who aren't afraid to think outside-the-box, and who are reinventing our ideas of what great web design can—and should—be.

 
CSS Elite

CSS Elite is a CSS gallery repository and web development resource

 
StyleGala

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.

 
WebCreme

Web design inpiration

 
DesignSnack

Design Snack is a community-based web design showcase. We allow our members, not the editors, to vote and ultimately choose the websites that are showcased on the front page

 
CSSMania

Quite possibly, CSS Mania is the largest CSS showcase in the world.

 
CSSReboot

The CSS Reboot is a community event for web professionals and enthusiasts. This May 1st at 18:00 GMT Rebooters from all over the world will launch their web standards-based redesigns.

 
CSSImport

Another CSS web gallery

 
Unmatched Style

Unmatched Style is a constantly growing community dedicated to acknowledging those who have made exceptionally gorgeous web sites using Cascading Style Sheets and web standards.

 
CSS Drive

Another CSS web gallery

 
The Daily Slurp

The Daily Slurp is simply a daily dose of sites to check out. The list is fixed for each day, so a once a day check will do. I will be listing sites that are aesthetically pleasing for one reason or another, it is all about visual appeal.

 
Light On Dark

A showcase of well designed & coded web sites with light text on a dark background.

 
Design Meltdown

Design elements, trends & problems in web design

 
One Pixel Army

Get inspired! Available for your viewing pleasure are links to sites I feel may give you direction, so you may stand on the shoulders of web designing giants!

 
Most Inspired

Most Inspired aggregates designs from all the popular css and design galleries.

 
CSS Flavor

CSS Flavor is a website focused on providing its audience with a vide range database of well designed CSS based & standard compliant websites from around the world.

 
CSS Showcase

A gallery of css menus / css navigation tabs

 
Liguid Designs & elastic

Liquid Designs is the only site dedicated to fluid and elastic design with CSS. Check out the resources and open-source templates, get help in the forum, or submit your favorite site to the gallery.

 
Submit CSS

A brand new gallery full of css designs

 
CSS Impress

A gallery full of css designs

 
StyleCrunch

StyleCrunch is a css and standards websites gallery, you can find the best sites in the www, best design, best coded and what engine used. Thanks to all those that visit to us

 
StyleBoost

Styleboost has been all about showcasing the most beautiful sites on the web.

 
CSS11

Nothing, but nothing, but kick-ass sites.

 
Screenalicio.us

Screenalicio.us is the web's new premier source for showcasing excellent websites and inspire artists all alike to create spectacular work of their own.

 
Design Shack

We don't want to be like other CSS repositories. We only offer the cream of great design, filtering through lots of the redesigns that occur every day across the Internet, and cataloging the greatest projects out there



CSS Optimizers and Cleaners


CleanCSS

CleanCSS is a powerful CSS optimizer and formatter. Basically, it takes your CSS code and makes it cleaner and more concise.

 
CSS Formatter and Optimiser

CSS Formatter and Optimiser

 
CSS Drive CSS Compressor

Use this utility to compress your CSS to increase loading speed and save on bandwidth as well. You can choose from three levels of compression, depending on how legible you want the compressed CSS to be versus degree of compression

 
CSS Optimizer

Online CSS Optimizer/Optimiser is a web tool for reducing the file size of cascading style sheets.



Browser Checkers


Browsershots

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl

 
Browsercam

Lets you submit multiple URL's, choose the browsers and operating systems you want to see, and in about a minute returns screen captures of your webpage loaded in the different browsers and operating systems you selected

 
Litmus

Thoroughly test your web pages. See precisely how they appear in a wide range of web browsers.



CSS Frameworks


BluePrintCSS

Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.

 
Content with Style CSS Framework

Illustrates a simple way of skipping the tedious startup on your average project, letting you get to the interesting stuff as quickly and efficiently as possible

 
WYMstyle

The aim of this project is to provide a set of well-tested modular CSS files, that can be used for fast design of web sites.

 
YAML

"Yet Another Multicolumn Layout" (YAML) is an (X)HTML/CSS framework for creating modern and flexible floated layouts. The structure is extremely versatile in its programming and absolutely accessible for end users.

 
Yahoo! UI Library Grids CSS

The foundational YUI Grids CSS offers four preset page widths, six preset templates, and the ability to stack and nest subdivided regions of two, three, or four columns

 
Elements

Elements is a down to earth CSS framework. It was built to help designers write CSS faster and more efficient. This framework is like a template which has all of the things you end up typing in over and over for every website you create.



Great Web Design Blogs


Smashing Magazine

Inform our readers about the latest trends and techniques in web-development - clearly, precisely and regularly

 
TutorialBlog

Tutorialblog was started in 2005 to provide Photoshop Tutorials on various techniques and effects. It was acquired in 2006 by Kooc Media with aims of taking it forward and becoming a usefull resource for beginner and intermediates alike.