Design like a pro: 20 web design tips

.net magazine offers 20 pro tips to help neophyte web designers do it like the pro’s. The tips emphasize writing clean, organized code yourself, rather than using a WYSIWYG editor like DreamWeaver or GoLive.

.net magazine’s 20 pro tips:

1. Planning
2. Do it by hand
3. Stylesheets: importing vs linking
4. Smarter gradient backgrounds
5. Commenting
6. Use simple PHP to build sites
7. Set fonts using ems
8. IE Box Model Hack
9. Space saver
10. Test, test and test again
11. Format fundamentals
12. The ‘title’ and ‘alt’ attributes
13. The correct format for pseudo classes
14. Use semantic mark-up
15. Favicons
16. Change capitalisation using CSS
17. Wrapping text around images
18. Universal character sets
19. Print styles
20. Learn from others

If that wets your appetite, read the tips in detail.