If anyone wants the most cheesy backgrounds for either this project or the next, check this site out. It has some pretty crazy 80's-vanity-license plate-style airbrushed artwork. I really want to make a website that features this kind of cheesy artwork. Word.

Paul OB gives probably the best advice I've heard yet - keep it simple. In this article he goes through the problems of complicated code, which as we all know can disable stylesheets and drive you crazy. After reading this, I went back through my css and made sure everything was streamlined.

Designer Jean Louis gives a pretty cool tip about sizing text without pixels. It's one of those tricks that makes text fit according to your site. Using percentages next to the body div on css will enable you to do this. I'm going to try it when I design my next site while playing around with text.

The site simplebits.com provides a tip on how to make background links, objects, artwork, etc. easily clickable. If I had the time, I would use this effect on my portfolio page, designing each article and zen site feature to afford some sort of action.

Snook says that if your are trying to keep track of headers in your css, try to declare specifications all in one line. I might try to do this in the future when I get better at designing; describing an h3's colors, font size and background in one single line.

A designer at evolt.org says that if you are going to use an unusual font (especially one you have to download), make sure you use it in an image instead designating it as standard text in your CSS page. This is huge, since in my Zen Garden page I'm using a font which I was fond of and downloaded - there are probably very few users whose computers actually have this font, but they can still see it if it is in the form of a .gif.

This article by Trenton Moss instructs designers to use 3-d effects for objects. Apparently it's an old trick, but I still think it's cool to move a mouse over an object or image and have it pop out at you. Moss also provides the "Text-Transform" command, which is useful if you forget to capitalize successive h1 lines - it sets a standard for every h1 (every header will therefore begin with a capital letter, even if you forget to be consistent).

I know we should be recommending CSS tips and such, but please check out this short article by Jim Ramsey about flow in web sties. It's very akin to Web ReDesign 2.0 (for those of you who bought the book), which talks about the psychology of users - Kelly Groto and Emily Cotler both speak about the utter importance of a site that affords fluid, easy usability.

For those who are interested in having a photo gallery installed on their portfolio/professional page, please check out cssplay.co.uk. Scroll down and copy the code provided below, and you can have a photo gallery (which consists of an unordered list code) viewable to employers, etc.

You can create RSS Feeds in a stylesheet by using this code. By utilizing this tool, you can have stylesheets, tips, and other sites sent directly through your site instead of searching for them. The author, "Pete Freitag", recommends an XSL stylesheet, but a regular stylesheet will do just fine.

If you would like to play around with an HTML document without damaging your own, check out the W3C Schools CSS Guide where you can edit text on one half of the screen and watch the results unfold on the other. I am using this in the lab now so I can get some practice without exchanging files and refreshing the page constantly.

Has anyone seen the shorthand feature on the HTML-kit Tools site? See the video on http://www.chami.com/html-kit/tools. After writing a tag, press Ctrl "J" - it's like the predictive text feature on cell phones. This should be useful when writing html elements becomes more familiar. The Atari voice on the video is annoying, though.