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My name is Rob Cherny and I'm a professional Web Developer with 16 years of experience creating Web sites and Web-based applications. This site is where I write about my work, and random other things...

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May 2007

Web Design 101: Backgrounds
Digital Web, in their Web Design 101 column, has a very lengthy review of the power and strength and features and ... well, everything about CSS backgrounds, and so on. Good stuff.

Formal Weirdness
Eric Meyer on CSS for form controls. More questions than answers.

70 Expert Ideas for Better CSS Coding
Everyone else is linking to this, but I figured hey why not, it looks to be a pretty darn good round up, running the risk of making other resources obsolete. I still gotta look over the whole thing to see if I agree or not.

On having layout
Ever heard of hasLayout? This is an excellent dissection of the MS IE only property which is hard to explain, understand, and work around. It goes contrary to many a CSS rule. Gets you every time.

Andy Budd on CSS3 and CSS 2.2?
Andy Budd discusses the current state of the CSS specs and what their status is.

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