CSS Backgrounds

A good background can transform a website or blog from a boring, also ran into something special. Here's a post from Smashing Magazine that will, through the use of a cascading style sheet, provide both inspiration and instruction.

I just might need to create a category for Smashing Magazine; I'm finding a lot of very useful stuff over there.

Read More: Backgrounds In CSS: Everything You Need To Know

Free Icon Sets

Icons, Icons, Lots of Really Cool Icons.

From Smashing Magazine:
Fresh free high-quality icon sets and 35 incredible free icon sets you can use for your web designs or your desktop. More in SM's Icon Category.

From The Web:
The Icon Archive is a categorized collection of high quality desktop and web icon sets; they have lots of really good stuff there.

SM's Best of 2009

I was reading Smashing Magazine this morning and I decided to check out their "About" page where I found this...

Our Most Popular Stories Of 2009 So Far:
Web Design Trends For 2009
Best Adobe Photoshop Tutorials
40 Excellent Free Fonts For Professional Design

And this...

Our Greatest Story Ever:
53 CSS Techniques You Can’t Live Without

I've got to get me one of those "About" pages, someday.

Smashing Magazine Bookmarks

Smashing Magazine is the second link I'll add to my Favorites and to give you an example of why. Here's my current collection of SM bookmarks.

Freebies Round-Up: Icons, Buttons and Templates.
40 Creative Design Layouts: Getting Out Of The Box.
7 Principles Of Clean And Optimized CSS Code.
A Small Design Study Of Big Blogs Part 1 and Part 2.
How To Communicate Design Decisions To Clients.

And finally; 12 Classic Gary Busey Moments. I know, it's not Smashing Magazine, but I was digging around in my Bookmarks and I just couldn't help myself.