CSS References and Tools

Every web designer and developer knows how powerful Cascading Style Sheets are and how much they can save in HTML coding.

I put together several links to CSS tutorials, samples and Internet resources.

CSS Books

• The Ultimate CSS Reference

CSS Tutorials

• W3Schools
• Tizag
• CSS Tutorials, Articles, and Tips
• SitePoint CSS Reference

CSS Templates and Samples

• Sample CSS Page Layouts – Max Design
• CSS Layout Templates - SSI-Developer.net
• Layout Gala: a collection of 40 CSS layouts
• CSS Zen Garden
• CSSPlay
• Solucija − Free CSS Templates
• Faux Column CSS Layouts - Code-Sucks.com

Web Designer Tools

• Rounded Graphics for CSS Box Corners - Cornershop

Resources

• 50 Extremely Useful And Powerful CSS Tools | Smashing Magazine
• 11 Useful Tools To Check, Clean & Optimize Your CSS File | MakeUseOf.com
• 50 Useful Design Tools For Beautiful Web Typography | Smashing Magazine
• 7 Principles Of Clean And Optimized CSS Code | Smashing Magazine
• CSS Tools That Compress & Strip Unused Styles From Your CSS Files | Labnol
• Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong | Digital Web Magazine
• 15 Must Read Articles for CSS Beginners | Line25.com
• Ask SM: CSS Quick-Question Edition | Smashing Magazine
• 130+ New Tools to Make You a Better and Faster Designer | mashable.com
• 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn't Live Without | Smashing Magazine
• 40+ Essential Front End Web Developer Cheat Sheets | tripwire magazine

How to get Virtually unlimited online backup storage with Live Mesh

As you may already know Live Mesh Online Storage currently offers 5GB of online storage. This amount of data is enough if you are backing up documents as DOCs or plain text files, but if you want to store music, photos, large multimedia files, storing them into one account will quickly add-up to the limit. To expand this 5GB limitation we will use an excellent sharing functionality of Live Mesh.

Lets looks at the example. We want to setup backup for our Photos, Music, Documents. We will need to create a separate live or hotmail accounts for each of them, say my_photos@live.com, my_music@live.com, and my_docs@live.com. All these accounts will need to link with main account say my_mesh@hotmail.com.

 

After creating my_docs account login into www.livemesh.com using it and connect to Live Desktop.

Double click on ‘Create new folder’ Icon and enter ‘Documents’ in the name field.

Once folder is created double click it to open it and click Members and then Invite to enter address of your main account.

 

After clicking OK Email will be sent to my_mesh@hotmail.com account which will have a link to accept an invitation. After that ‘Documents’ folder will be linked to your main mesh account and will be visible in the list of folders.

These steps need to be repeated for photos and music and add virtually unlimited number of folders.