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May 8

How To Speed Up CSS Rendering

Tricks for faster page display.

http://www.onextrapixel.com/2012/05/03/css-tricks-how-to-speed-up-css-rendering/

Decoupling HTML From CSS

Another look at emerging CSS best practices.

http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/20/decoupling-html-from-css/

Beercamp 2012

Interactive pop-up 3D book, built with CSS 3D and SVG.
http://2012.beercamp.com

How they did it:
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/17/beercamp-an-experiment-with-css-3d/

CSS Sprites Revisited

The latest info on how to use sprites.

http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/11/css-sprites-revisited/

Animated CSS Content Tabs

Nice way to enhance your tab menus.

http://tympanus.net/codrops/2012/04/12/animated-content-tabs-with-css3/

CSS Scroll Effects

http://lab.hakim.se/scroll-effects/

Apr 4

Icon Fonts

A gallery of great icon font sets out there.

http://css-tricks.com/flat-icons-icon-fonts/

Apr 4

CSS/SVG Blur Effects: Pros and Cons

http://css-plus.com/2012/03/gaussian-blur/

Apr 3

In Defense of Reinventing Wheels

http://lea.verou.me/2012/04/in-defense-of-reinventing-wheels/

Apr 3

Stop Solving Problems You Don't Yet Have

http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2012/03/21/stop-solving-problems-you-dont-yet-have/

Style Tiles

Style tiles are a great method of design for the modern web. It is about developing a design system, rather than fixed pages.

http://styletil.es

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/style-tiles-and-how-they-work/

CSS Guidelines

Some new practices have been emerging for CSS.

https://github.com/csswizardry/CSS-Guidelines/blob/master/CSS%20Guidelines.md

Stuff I Learned at SXSW

Notes from various sessions I attended at SXSW:

http://johnpolacek.com/2012/03/11/stuff-i-learned-at-sxsw-part-3/

http://johnpolacek.com/2012/03/11/stuff-i-learned-at-sxsw-part-2/

http://johnpolacek.com/2012/03/11/stuff-i-learned-at-sxsw-part-1/

Tinker

Similar to jsFiddle, this site lets you code and share html/css/js functional code demos. Here’s an example demo of a spotify search:

https://tinker.io/22681/2

Bootstrap Tools

Twitter’s Bootstrap framework is really catching on in popularity since launching a new responsive version. Here are new theming tools that have popped up.

http://bootstrap.io

http://bootswatch.com

http://stylebootstrap.info