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This article, on the smashing magazine website, shows some cool tricks for working with transparency in CSS. While I am having all sorts of trouble with my CSS page, I am expecting to use these or similar tricks on my page. I recommend checking it out if you need help with transparency

So you want rounded instead of sharp corners? This trick should help you with that. I'm looking for ways to make my page look smoother and more polished, so I think this should help. I'm trying to use this trick for my Zen Garden CSS page.

This site is exactly what the title suggests; it provides a list and description of a number of useful CSS Hacks. While I don't know that I'll be using this site for the current projects, I believe it will prove helpful for future CSS work beyond this class.

By now, most of us can reasonably use many basic functions of html and css. This function, allowing the designer to adjust the margin size, may be helpful. I will be using it on my site..

This site explains floats to the point of near exhaustion. IT's helpful if you are willing to wade through. I think we are all using floats of some kind. This site should be a benefit to future CSS projects.

This article will help you convert your website designed in photoshop to a real css layout. For many people like myself who can't draw for their lives, I like to use photoshop and similar programs to plot out how I want things to look first. It is usually hard to translate my ideas onto paper, and even harder to translate the paper to a webpage. For those of you with troubles like these, rest them aside.

HTML Dog has probably been the most useful tool in this whole ordeal for me. Here, in the intermediate tutorial, Patrick Griffiths explains the difference from the ID and the div tags. ID tag's identify a particular rule, whereas divs describe classes. Though not vital information, this can probably help alleviate some frustration, and for that, it's worth checkint out.

I found this site from a google search: "css image icon horizontal list." I was looking for a way to use images in a list." While the search was fruitless in this respect, it explains, in detail, how to hadnle a variety of lists. Examining the code may be helpful in deciphering why your lists may/may not be working as you desire.

I don't know about you, but clear and float confuse me. This site is helpful in distinguishing when to use these functions. It also explains why these properties are needed.

This list-o-matic website, used ironically enough, to create lists on your webpages, is exceptionally useful, if you haven't used it yet. It is found on the accessify.com site, and you can copy/paste the url at the top of this window. I may be using it for my page.

As we learned in class the other day, a page must be able to handle smaller and larger text sizes appropriately. Some of our pages, mine included, looked like they were too small when the text was increased. This article, shows you how to change text size on your own. You may or may not need it, but it certainly helps to use it if you're not sure if your page will look right with larger text.