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Improving code readability with CSS styleguides offers some interesting ideas on how to improve your stylesheet readability. In my view, optimisation is about weighing up things like the size and complexity of the stylesheets, who will be reading it, ask whether you need to use redundancy to make things easier to understand, and understanding a lot of small stylesheets means more requests to the server. Its our job to take these ideas and optimise them for our unique projects. Some good ideas here.

Starting with CSS and bug fixing tips are a great set of resources on best practice XHTML and CSS practices. Veerle has put together an impressive list of high quality tutorials.

CSS3.info has a great tool that tells you what CSS Selectors are available in your browser, what’s buggy and what’s not supported at all.

The IE6 Duplicate Characters Bug is one I’ve run into before - comments between floats and several other circumstances at the same time cause IE6 screen diarrhea (not my phrasing). While this is a bit of an edge case that’s all the more interesting.

A short explanation of why shorthand CSS is better and more maintainable.

Design Coding from Poetic Prophet - SEO Rapper has put another dimension to the education of best practice website development. Who would have thought web standards, accessibility and usability would make it to the Rap scene?

Aptana Studio 1.1 is a free cross platform web development environment.

The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow.