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Nearly every web designer is guilty of forcing line breaks, creating tables that don’t hold tabular data, and a host of other egregious HTML sins. Now that CSS is around, Molly E. Holzschlag slaps our hands and explains why we should pay attention to each element’s content, not just its looks.

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A nice article on Applied CSS Management and Optimization. It covers topics like caching as well as stitching your stylesheets together or using css hacks versus user agent filters.

Stu Nicholls runs a great site on css tricks and features. Even if you“re not technically interrested, the site is a nice playground. Explore at Stu Nicholls | The CSS Playground | Cutting Edge CSS

3 Column CSS Layout – Fluid, Multi-Column Stretch. Check it out at Flexi Floats – Multi Column CSS-P Layout

A nice presentation on unobtrusive Javascript with a lot of examples. Read more at Unobtrusive Javascript

X-Ray Stylesheets let you have a look under the hood of any website. I havn’t found anything the WebDeveloper Toolbar can’t do out of the box, but the idea is nice anyway. Clean pages are just a click away at X-Ray Stylesheets – Vorsprung durch Webstandards

Creating JavaScript Triggers while staying XHTML compliant and separating presentation, structure and logic. Rather scary technique with modifying DTDs and such stuff but also worth a read. Read it at JavaScript Triggers: A List Apart

A nice article on Web Application Form Design can be found at LukeW

The Man in Blue created a simple WYSIWYG HTML editor which generates valid, standards compliant html code. There’s hope at last! See it at The Man in Blue > widgEditor: A simple, standards-compliant WYSIWYG HTML editor