If you work with CSS much at all, these ten tutorials are must-reads. They range from sprites to print stylesheets, speech bubbles to sliding doors. The sorts of things that are nice to have in your CSS toolbox for future use, when you’ll undoubtedly need them.
- How to: CSS Large Background – Web Designer Wall shows how to code a website around a single, large background image, as you can see they’ve done with their own site.
- CSS Speech Bubbles – For comments, quotes, Twitter posts, or whatever you could possibly want to put inside a word bubble.
- CSS Gradient Text Effect – Text styled with a gradient image, yet it’s still plain text.
- The Highly Extensible CSS Interface – Cameron Moll’s famous posts. An interesting read, though not necessarily a tutorial.
- Sliding Doors of CSS – A List Apart’s widely used technique of using layered background images to create a dynamically sized button or tab.
- CSS Sprites: What They Are, Why They’re Cool, and How To Use Them
- How to Create a Block Hover Effect for a List of Links
- Build a Print Stylesheet – If someone prints your page, should they have to waste paper on sidebars, ads, comment forms, or other junk only of interest to online readers?
- Some styles for your pagination
- Getting Around IE’s Lack of Min-Width Support – Min-width, such a useful CSS attribute. Too bad Microsoft didn’t see fit to support it in Internet Explorer…
