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Smashingmagazine has recently published an article about new cool features of CCS3. Read the whole article here.

A couple of weeks ago Jeffrey Way published an article about 30 HTML best practices for beginners on NETTUTS.

Minify is a PHP5 app that can combine multiple CSS or Javascript files, compress their contents (i.e. removal of unnecessary whitespace/comments), and serve the results with HTTP encoding (gzip/deflate) and headers that allow optimal client-side caching.

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.

Styled Menus offer website navigation menu bars designed by professionals. This site is been maintain by two guys Sainath Chillapuram and Santosh Setty.

When it comes to creating the navigation part of your Website, the first thing you might think of is an unordered list that you style as tabs. Lately, such navbars are everywhere, as many people believe they’ll make their site more Web 2.0-compatible.

I wrote a small piece of javascript that creates a css styled scrollbar from the Mootools (version 1.2b2) Slider class. I know there is a scrollbar class for Mootools but it’s more than 100 lines of code.

Data visualization is mostly achieved with flash applications or with help of some programming languages. Are those solutions the only way to present, let’s say simple data chart? How about giving it a try with nothing but good ol’ css?

As we abused the Internet back in the 90 with tags like and the last 10 years have seen the gradual extinction of these proprietary tags until we did full circle and the marquee effect appears in CSS 3.

Some lines of JavaScript code can help you to add nice effects to improve some features of your websites.