I've seen some very interesting experimentation with illustrating with CSS3 which reminds me of the good old days of ASCII art. It's fun and interesting and takes an incredible amount of time and attention to detail. It's not practical, but it's fun. I've seen it on some production sites, even. To me, this is as bad as designing with Tables. Don't do it!

Illustrating with CSS3 is certainly creative, and a fun way to push the limits of what CSS3 can accomplish. It starts with creating sometimes dozens and dozens of divs and spans, creating any number of rounded corners, rotating the divs/spans, adding drop shadows, and presto! Scalable image that can't be seen on Internet Explorer. Here are some interesting examples: http://ping.fm/5coll http://ping.fm/ouEPW http://ping.fm/UGMwn… Read more »

CSS shorthand will let you write leaner and cleaner code, resulting in smaller file sizes, and ultimately, it will just save you time when you're writing out your page styling. Here are my top 5 shorthand properties:

1. Background… Read more »

Definition lists might one day go on a rampage. They're quiet, now, but people generally ignore them, and by and large, they're very misunderstood. I show them lots of love, though, in the hopes that when they do go on a killing spree, they'll remember that I cared about them. But besides a weird exhaustion-induced imagination about markup elements taking down the global population, definition lists really are very useful and very misunderstood. They add a lot of semantic meaning to your markup for search engines and others.… Read more »