When designing a new website, where do you usually begin? 

Theres a few options these days, such as taking a template and customizing it, or finding a layout that you like online and adapting it. 

But what if you want to start from scratch?  I usually go to a website that i’ve done in the past and take the html headers from it, and copy it into a new html document, and start off with a blank css file.

But it seems that there are a few websites on the net offering default styles, somewhere to start off without cutting pasting and amending existing documents (stick that in your textpad clip library!)

Shapeshed go one step further than everyone else with a version, date, author, email, website and version history in their default css file!

Check it out .. Default Styles for CSS

I would say now, add a good CSS Reset to this and you’re laughing..

Icant.co.uk has this amazing css table gallery that i’ve used a few times to get some designs to start with when i’m under pressure to deliver quickly

This is one of my favourites in the picture called mediagroove by mayumi takami, its got a nice fresh web 2.0 look to it.

All of the designs were contributed by members across the internet, so if you have any to share be sure to share it with the guys at icant.

CSS-Tricks.com posted this great-looking apple-like css menu, which uses unordered lists – the only problem with it is that it doesn’t work in Internet Explorer yet (damn!) but i’ll have a go later at fixing it myself




Now with AJAX and some CSS-Trickery perhaps the web is becoming just as good as desktop, if not better than it.. if it wasn’t for these cross-browser woes

Web-based Itunes anyone?

As we all know, there are many ways to get CSS in Internet Explorer to play ball, i know its not easy at times and it can be half the job of a web developer to get CSS working correctly in all browsers.

For the purists, look away now – for here is a dirty, low down css hack!

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