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Keeping track of Mozilla development is never easy, especially the minute details related to new or improved web technology development and support. The Mozilla development community has set up a new weblog to fix this, the Web Tech weblog. Here the devs will be posting about and discussing topics of interest to web developers.

Since tables were co-opted for layout purposes, columns have become key to many Web design layouts, and this thinking continued when CSS took over from tables (at least in the minds of savvy designers) for Web-page presentation. However, other fields of layout design don't think in arbitrary columns, they work with grids, and these form the basis for the structure of page designs. This article will provide the lowdown on grid design for Web pages. Thinking modular Grids are a template, a framework within which creativity can flourish. Too many designers spend time looking at a blank canvas, trying to figure out where elements should be positioned, but, if you have a flexible underlying grid, many such problems are already solved for you. It becomes obvious where and how elements should and can be positioned, thereby leaving you, the designer, with more time to work on graphic design and other page components.

This is a complete tutorial to using LESS with Chrome's DevTools. If you've used Sass with Chrome's DevTools, you'll most likely already be familiar with the concepts introduced here. | Difficulty: Beginner; Length: Quick; Tags: Tools & Tips, Tutorials, Web Dev

CSS Formatter and Optimiser

CSSBEAUTY™ is a project focused on providing its audience with a database of well designed CSS based websites from around the world.

ptimize CSS via URI or via File Upload or via Direct Input

Considered the best online CSS optimizer by bloggingpro.com

While a lot of people are out to optimize their sites/blogs, most everyone seems to skip over CSS. I have been spending some time looking at CSS Optimization tools today. I wanted something free, online, and easy to use. And of course, something that worked.

CSS Optimizer optimizes and reduces the file size of the Cascading Style Sheets