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Following up on a reader's comment, James takes the drop cap to a whole new dimension. He shows you how to break free of the box, and make the text flow around the letter itself.

A regular feature on the SitePoint CSS forum is Paul O’Brien’s CSS quiz, where he invites readers to solve a tricky CSS problem. Recently, one of his challenges was to create a three-column, source-ordered layout that would collapse to a single column when viewed in a window around 320 pixels wide. We thought it was a really interesting problem, so we invited him to write up the solution.

We know opinions on the use of CSS frameworks are strong, to say the least. That said, there’s a lot to learn from the way these frameworks are structured. By studying frameworks, we can make our CSS more portable and reusable without sacrificing flexibility. In this article, SitePoint forums regular Alex Dawson walks us through the key points we can take away from a study of the main CSS frameworks.

Browser support for CSS3 is continually improving. In this article, Alex walks us through a few of the coolest CSS3 properties supported in the latest development release of Firefox (3.6 alpha).

Unless you limit yourself to one-page web sites, you’ll need to design navigation. In fact, navigation is among the most important parts of any web design. In this collection of ready-made solutions Rachel steps us through styling horizontal and vertical menus, tabs, buttons, lists, and links with CSS -- and making sure they're as accessible as possible!

Image replacement -- it's a vital tool for any serious web designer, yet many techniques go to ground when images are turned off. In his article, Paul Young puts forward a new JavaScript-based method for image replacement to work around this pitfall.

The CSS border property is a surprisingly handy tool for creating all kinds of shapes -- not just boxes! In this article, Tim shows us how to use pure CSS to create all manner of fun visual effects normally reserved for images.

HTML tables have gained a new lease of life in the CSS era, now that they have been freed from misuse as a layout element. In this article, Jonathan demonstrates how you can use CSS to create exciting, colorful tables, which will work successfully across browsers, as well as taking a peek at what the future holds.

While we all wait patiently for CSS3 to be supported by the popular browsers, you can take advantage of CSS3 features now by building web applications within the Adobe AIR platform. Experience cross-platform utopia with this look at the advanced CSS styles you can use.

You know all of those tricky CSS layout techniques that you've spent years mastering? Well, be prepared to abandon them all. OK, maybe not immediately, but as Rachel and Kevin explain in this excerpt from the forthcoming SitePoint title, Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong!, the way we lay out pages is about to change forever...