css tips

I have been doing a bit of web design stuff for work and on my blog for a while now – and I still find CSS glitches in my ad hoc approach to changing things.

Here are three essential tools for making web design using CSS an easier job.

1. This Smashing Magazine CSS Tutorial is a must
2. Firebug – the Firefox extension that allows you to chop and change your code and watch what it does to your page as you do it.
3. A good CSS editor program (here are ten suggestions) takes out a lot of the grunt work.

Update – here are some cliched features to avoid. And my favourites listed in order of how annoying I find them…

1. Autoplaying music
2. Introduction movies with no skip button
3. Comic Sans
4. Overuse of stock images
5. Animated Globes

One that wasn’t on the list that I find particularly annoying is talking ads that don’t pop up but move across the page. I guess people are trying to prove that they’re tech savvy and stuff…

Am I missing anything design people?