Using progressive enhancement techniques in web design is good practice—where new browsers can take advantage of improvements in HTML standards and new CSS capabilities.

Chris Coyier over at CSS-Tricks, has written an excellent article discussing a CSS3 progressive enhancement technique for rendering gradients, whilst retaining a fallback image-based option for non-compliant browsers. Read the post here.

I’m all in favour of improving page load times as you’ll see from other posts on Brightscape here, here and here. Therefore, I found this article of interest and felt it worthy of sharing with the community.

An extremely useful tool for finding redundant CSS selectors in your site builds.

The plugin integrates with the Firebug addon in Firefox making this a useful addition to Firebug’s impressive list of features.

Download the CSS Usage plugin.

As a website grows so does its stylesheet. The problem is, the opposite is not true.

With the increasing trend for frameworks, including frameworks like Ruby on Rails and JavaScript frameworks such as Prototype and jQuery – we have also seen the advent of CSS frameworks.

Yahoo where the first on the band wagon with the release of YUI Grids CSS which offers an easy to use interface that doesn’t need to be downloaded onto your computer. (more…)