While they may not be used as often as they once were in the heyday of table based web design, image maps can still be quite useful in situations that call for it. Unfortunately, for beginners, achieving this, with CSS alone, can be a difficult concept to grasp. In this tutorial, we’re not only going to get you up to speed on how to create a CSS image map, but, we’re also going to take it a couple steps further and add hover states to our image map using a CSS background image sprite, as well

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The letterpress effect is becoming hugely popular in web design, and with a couple of modern browsers now showing support for the text-shadow CSS3 property it’s now simple and easy to create the effect with pure CSS. No Photoshop trickery here!

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Learn to create fluid 3 columns CSS layout, cross-browser, SEO-Coding and valid XHTML.

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Using CSS sprites allows you to greatly increase your websites speed by using single image files that contain multiple graphics. This tutorial will show you how to use CSS sprites of your own!

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Use CSS to create a polaroid picture effect from a photo.

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How to Design and Code a Flexible Website

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I’m sure you’ve heard of CSS in general. CSS3 isn’t that much different, in terms of syntax; however, the power of CSS3 is much greater. As you’ll see in these eleven techniques, you can have multiple backgrounds, dynamically resize those backgrounds, border radiuses, text shadows, and more!

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A short tutorial on CSS, telling you what it’s all about, and how to use it. Simple and effective introduction to the material as a formatting and styling tool for HTML layouts

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