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Once again, the popularity of the Content Management System Wordpress has yielded a great collection of useful links for any avid Wordpress user. 13 Helpful Cheat Sheets for Building Worpdress Themes is a great list of resources that will be especially useful to Wordpress Theme designers. The best was the Advanced Wordpress Help Sheet that was a follow-up to the much used basic version of which the link seems to be inactive.

Check out the links and PDFs listed. You may even find that some are useful enough to print a paper copy version. Considering how rarely anyone does that, it’s a true indicator to a cheat sheet’s usefulness.

This is a great article about using CSS3 to improve your webpage design. The article first discusses the unusual aversion to web page designs being stuck in the 11-year old CSS 2.1.

When we look at websites that were created 11 years ago, it’s clear that we are a thousand miles away from that era. It is quite remarkable how much Web development has evolved over the years, in a way we would never have imagined then.

So why is it that, when it comes to CSS, we’re stuck in the past and so afraid of experimenting? Why is it that we still use inconvenient CSS hacks and JavaScript-dependent techniques for styling? Why can’t we make use of the rich CSS3 features and tools available in modern Web browsers and take the quality of our designs to the next level?

The article goes on to discuss things like browser-specific designing, pondering the interesting idea that websites don’t have to match across browsers. It also points out some of the useful tools in CSS3 (like combinators) and how to use them across different browsers. It’s a great article that even provides other resources if you want to explore some of the concepts further. Great read for all designers.