Awesomoto

Lots of useful CSS tricks here including several rounded corner techniques, with images and without.

Most Used CSS Tricks

What’s Nice
What isn’t nice about this site? Pick from three different models and have them try on various lingerie, they can walk closer and turn around. Hour upon hours can be spent on this site. The perfect thing for a guy to make sure he finds the right gift for his lady or ladies to view various lingerie styles. The flash video interaction is well done. Although we could imagine the tedious hours spent by the models changing clothes and modeling. Well Done.

What’s Nice
It’s a full flash site, sure. The opening loading sequence is nice with paper tearing as the page loads. The main screen flows into the other sections well. The only detraction is the use of popups for certain content. I am surprised that folks still use popup windows today when there are options such as thickbox or many other solutions.

What’s Nice
A standard blog layout with a nice header. Click on the “About Me” link and you get the unexpected drop down via JQuery. Nice touch, the blog is also very well layed out and clean with a nice footer that matches the header well. Nice work Mr. Diggles W00t.

Floats have been a major pain in the you know where since the inception of CSS based layouts. While I would never resort to using a table to layout pages again for lots of reasons, floating continues to be a burden on us all. Well, with some clever backwards compatibility (it works in IE5.5/6 and other browsers) and the use of CSS3 style layout you can forget about using floats.

What’s Nice
Great use of Flash and javascript in the little details. The slideshows, hover over the logo and other small touches make the site a cut above.

What’s Nice
Customizable homepages aren’t new. The BBC’s design and use of JQuery and the Interface plugin make it stand out. Nice customization without the bloated slowness of other sites (yahoo etc.). The lightweight ad-free design is a pleasure to use and does what it needs to do.

What’s Nice
The coding is pretty standard, but the grungy style is done right.