Somewhere yesterday I found a link to the web site of Andy Rutledge. So should you.

All this site is is a page of text about the benefits of properly applied css, with a set of different stylesheets that you can apply yourself. But it is wonderful (and wonderfully useful).

Today I rediscovered the CSSplay site by Stu Nicholls, a man who seems to have spent every waking hour for most of the last decade solving the most arcane cross-browser problems imaginable in css menus. A look at the front page of his site, though, reveals that this is only the tip of a very interesting iceberg.

If you want to have a fixed width web space that always sits in the center of the screen no mater how wide the window is then this is the simplest way of doing it.

Custom scroll bars work in IE but not Firefox. However, it is possible to use javascript to overrule Firefox and force scrollbar changes.

There are many different css-based menu systems available. Here are some I have found useful.

Cascading style sheets come in version 1 and version 2. All modern browsers should work with CSS 1.0, but there is still not widespread support for CSS 2.0.

It is almost impossible to design web pages properly without an understanding of the basis of CSS. Here are a collection of useful links, including a link to the box model; a link to a list of al the css keywords; and a list of 53 key techniques with examples and explanations.

Today the students in the Managing Information course told me that this site was completely invisible to Internet Explorer 7.

It has taken me a lot longer than I planned to get a version of my personal infohub thingy online in a version powered by WordPress. This is not because WordPress is difficult to work with, but rather the opposite. There are so many plug-ins and options that I have been some time deciding what paths would be best to walk down.