When your building a complex web site design using CSS, your stylesheet can get quite large. There are several CSS properties that you can consolidate with shorthand.

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As the saying goes, “Fail to plan. Plan to fail.”

One of the biggest mistakes in web design is failing to plan.

• What are your goals for the site?
• Who is your audience?
• What is your competition doing?
• What type of programming functionality will be needed?
• What written content will be on it?
• How will you lay out your navigation?
• Does it all fit together with your goals and your audience?

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The title tag is a really important, yet often overlooked aspect of good web design. I think it gets overlooked so often because it hides up there at the top of the page with all that meta, xmlns, http & charset gobbledegook.

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A major problem with a lot of the junk, bloated markup these days is the overuse of the <div> and <span> tags. Judious use of these helpful tags is required, if you want to really harness the beauty of CSS. Wrapping every line of markup in a <div> or <span> is practically the same as wrapping a <table> within a <table> within a <table>. That’s what we’re trying to move away from, right?

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I’ve got a buddy who always says, “Let me see that in design view.” When he gets done with a web site, the style sheet looks something like this:

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