Lately I have been very interested in how far we can take Typography only using CSS. Sure you can use images or sIFR to produce some very beautiful typography, but there is something unique and special about using only CSS. It is incredibly useful too, if you know the extent you can take CSS you end up with much more flexible websites— especially ones driven by a CMS.

Useful Design Tools For Beautiful Web Typography
Typography is elegant when it is attractive and communicates the designer’s ideas. When chosen wisely and used carefully, it can be very effective in supporting the overall design. Designers are always exploring different techniques with type: some use images or sIFR to produce very beautiful typography, while others prefer CSS alone to get the typography just right.

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Quick Tip: Understanding CSS3 Gradients

Creating an image only for the purpose of displaying a gradient is inflexible, and is quickly becoming a bad practice. Unfortunately, at the time of this writing, they very well might still be required, but hopefully not for much longer. Thanks to Firefox and Safari/Chrome, we can now create powerful gradients with minimal effort. In this video quick tip, we’ll examine some of the differences in syntax when working with the -moz and -webkit vendor prefixes.

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CSS Tools & Generators For Developer & Designer – Writing CSS codes from the scratch is really a tiresome and time-consuming task that can freak out a CSS coder. Now, here we are going to share some useful CSS tools that can help you to save your time and effort to a great extent.

Spritebox
Spritebox is a WYSIWYG tool to help web designers quickly and easily create CSS classes and IDs from a single sprite image. It is based on the principle of using the background-position property to align areas of a sprite image into block elements of a web page. It was made using a combination of JQuery, CSS3 and HTML5, and is totally free to use !

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Firebug is the most popular and powerful web development tool and one of the most recommended tool which integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
The sixth Web Exponents tech talk features Rob Campbell’s presentation on Firebug. Rob works at Mozilla. He’s one of the developers that Mozilla dedicated to the Firebug effort last July. Rob is one of the main drivers of the Firebug project, starting and heading up the weekly concalls, and closely tracking bugs and releases. As one of the founders of the Firebug Working Group, I’m excited to see Mozilla taking a more active role in Firebug. The benefits are clear as we see more features and greater stability with each Firebug release.

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