Cssbeauty.com is a project focused on providing its audience with a database of well designed css based websites from around the world.

It’s purpose is to showcase designers’ work and to act as a small portal to the css design community.

If you are “in need of inspiration”, you have to see this site.

WebStandardsAwards

“Although web standards give us a better, faster Internet, not many sites use them. The Web Standards Awards aims to promote web site design using W3C standards by seeking out and highlighting the finest standards-compliant sites on the Internet. By showing you standards-compliant sites that make your jaw drop, we hope to show you that web standards aren’t a constraint, they are a liberation.”

I think you know already mostly used substitutions for symbols like & or «». Here are some rare but useful symbol codes:

• ? – ×
• ? – ÷
• ? – ¼
• ? – ½
• ? – ¾
• ¶ – ¶
• § – §
• … – … / …
• † – †
• ‡ – ‡
• ? – ¹
• ? – ²
• ? – ³
• ? – ¢
• ¤ – ¤
• ? – £
• ? – ¥
• € – €
• ♠ – ♠
• ♣ – ♣
• ♦ – ♦
• ♥ – ♥
• ← – ←
• → – →
• ↑ – ↑
• ↓ – ↓

Be careful: not all browsers support all symbol codes.