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Friday afternoon smorgasbord

October 17, 2003 Stephanie Leary

If you’re relying on me for web design news, you’ve missed a lot in the past couple of weeks.

Wendy Peck wrote a nice CSS Primer that’s a little more coherent than mine, and I’ve already had occasion to send the link to half a dozen people. (CSSBook.com’s resource guide should be your next stop; just follow the links in order.)

From the makers of Listamatic comes Floatutorial, a fabulous list of tutorials that teach you how to do all kinds of essential things using floats (which are among the trickier aspects of CSS positioning).

Not to be confused with Listamatic, which is a tutorial set, List-o-matic is a list generator. If Taming Lists befuddles you, List-o-matic will bail you out.

Finally, Mimicking Magazines uses CSS to recreate common magazine layouts. Great stuff.

Lest I forget, the CSS Zen Garden has two lovely new entries.

If you are relying on me for this stuff, allow me to recommend Nick Bradbury’s blog, which posted links to all of the above (except the new Garden entries) in a much more timely manner than I did. If I had to pare down my design blogroll to just one, I’d keep Nick’s.

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