Tip - Best Practices In Modern Web Design: The Ultimate Round-Up – Smashing Magazine

Web design has evolved at such an extreme rate over the past ten to twenty years that it's often hard to keep up with current trends and best practices. It wasn't that long ago that table-based designs were considered cutting edge and CSS was unheard of. And to compound the problem, finding up-to-date information on what the "right" way to do things is can be nearly impossible at times. So we've collected more than 100 best practices for designing modern websites, from blogs to portfolios, covering everything from CSS and coding to images, graphics, and typography. Along with the practices themselves are resources for more information and examples of the practices themselves to help you visualize what we're talking about.