Great CSS sites

Written by willbe in Web-design

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.”

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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.

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CSS-design. Link

Written by willbe in Web-design

The WellStyled Workshop

Interesting CSS-dedicated site. There are some articles about using CSS-abilities for special cases. Online-generator of color schemes and palettes to create good-looking and well balanced and harmonic web pages.

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CSS-design. Links

Written by willbe in Web-design
Very useful (maybe the best) site about power of CSS-design. Learn to separate design and content!

Ideas for web-design.

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. Web standards are recommendations set by the W3C as to how web sites should be constructed to work better for everyone. CSS is the acronym for Cascading Style Sheet and describes how a html document is displayed or printed. The basic idea of web standards and CSS is to separate content from presentation – an effective way of producing beautiful and functional websites for the internet..

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