The things you can do with CSS

Smashing magazine has compiled a list of 53 uber cool CSS solutions to recurrent UI functionalities/patterns.

Although CSS contributes a lot to increasing the effectiveness of a page and front-end performance, it is underrated in my opinion. For instance, compared to the reams of Javascript you have to write to build a menu in a web application, the CSS-based Suckerfish menu lets you build an elegant cross-browser menu with just 12 lines of Javascript and some clever CSS.

Chief Performance Yahoo! Steve Souders' golden rule for performance is: optimize front-end performance first, that's where 80% or more of the end-user response time is spent.

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