CSS plays a major part in designing and developing, Its alot more easier to CSS these days with the free tools and tutorials available online. Here we are presenting the best of CSS tools and tutorials that will cover almost all areas of CSS! Go ahead and Enjoy!

LAYOUTS

• Layout Galaby Alessandro Fulciniti – a collection of 40 CSS layouts based on the same markup and ready for download!
• Look Ma, No Tables.CSS Layout Techniques: for Fun and Profit
• ThreeColumnLayoutscss-discuss – Bob Easton
• Open Source Web DesignDownload and upload free web designs
• Open Web DesignDownload and upload free web designs
• Sample CSS Page LayoutsHere are a range of CSS page layouts, including 2 column and 3 column layouts – free to use and abuse as needed
• Yet Another Multicolumn LayoutA multi-column layout
• CSS LayoutsStu Nicholls – Three columns, CSS frame, “Fixed”, Cross browser….
• CSS TEMPLATESAll templates are XHTML 1.0 and CSS2
• css Zen Gardenlist of all Zen Garden designs added to date..980+ layouts
• Flexi-Floats3 Column CSS Layout – Fluid, Multi-Column Stretch – Header, Footer, Fluid Center – Fixed or Fluid widths
• FirdamaticFirdamatic is an online tableless layout generator that allows you to create and customise layouts easily…
• Free CSS Template Code GeneratorMaker for 3 Column Layout (tableless)
• Page Maker – The Generator Form v2.90CSS Source Ordered Variable Border 1-3 Columned Page Maker
• QrONE CSS DesignerOnline CSS Generator
• ScriptomizersA CSS stylesheet generator
• CSS CreatorLive CSS Cascading Style Sheet Layout generator for your web site
• CSS HTML PHP Website Template MakerThis PHP – HTML – CSS template generator creates a two column layout with both a header and a footer….
• CSS Rounded Box Generatorgenerates html and css for rounded corner boxes
• Listamaticnot a tool but very useful! – one list, many options – Using CSS and a simple list to create radically different list
• Listamatic2nested list options
• List-O-MaticGenerate CSS-styled navigation menus based on list items
• List-O-Rama!Dreamweaver MX and UltraDev Zone – List-O-Rama will allow you to generate nice CSS inline menus in seconds
• CSS Menu GeneratorCSS Menu Generator will generate both the CSS and the HTML code required to produce a text-based yet appealing set of navigation buttons.
• Strictly CSS – Strictly CSS has an article that provides ten different CSS layouts based on the same HTML code.
• Max Design – Twenty-three different layouts in several different categories are available from Max Design.
• Glish.com – Here is an article that includes links to a number of CSS-based layouts.
• mycelly.com – Twelve different layouts.
• Little Boxes – Sixteen more layouts.
• Dynamic Drive’s CSS Library – One of the leading sources of coding and scripts provides 12 CSS-based layouts.
• Intensivstation – 16 different CSS-based layouts are provided
• BluePrintCSS – BluePrintCSS “aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.”
• CSSeasy – At CSSeasy you’ll find 8 different layouts to choose from.
• WordPress Theme Generator – Another resource for WordPress designers, the theme generator will let you choose the layout you want and it generates the code.
• Yahoo! Developer Network – YUI Grids CSS provide a starting point for your layouts for fluid or fixed width.
• SSI Developer – At SSI Developer there are a variety of two and three column layouts. Each layout indicates the browsers in which it has been tested.
• Mollio – Mollio offers several attractive layouts, but they give a disclaimer that there may be some rendering problems with IE7.
• CSS Tinderbox – Here you’ll find four simple but attractive layouts.
• Mitch Bryson – Mitch provides eight different CSS-based layouts to choose from.

FORMS

• Accessible Form Builder
  Generate XHTML-compliant accessible forms quicky and easily
• CSS Form Code Maker
  Generates ‘Colorful Box Layout’ For Forms
• JotForm
  Web Based WYSIWYG Form Builder
• Styling form controls
  Roger Johansson – 456 Berea Street
• Styling even more form controls
  Roger Johansson – 456 Berea Street
• Table-less Forms
  Most of the CSS-only, table-less forms available suck. So, not wanting to stoop to mediocrity, I decided to take on the task of coming up with something better. This is the result of my efforts…
• The Form Garden
  A CSS Stylesheet Collection for Web Forms
• Form layout
  Richard Rutter – clagnut blog
• Prettier Accessible Forms
  It can be time consuming to make web forms both pretty and accessible….
• Scrollable Checklists
• The Form Assembly – Form Layouts
• CSS Styling of forms, Stu Nicholls
• Semantic Horizontal Forms
• Trimming form fields
• Badboy Niceforms
• Functional Pretty Forms
• CSS-Only, Table-less Forms
• Subtraction: Free Form for All – Standardkonforme Online-Formulare
• Accessible CSS Forms
• Form Layout Templates
• Style Web Forms Using CSS
• Form Help without Popups
• Fun with forms – customized input elements
• Styling Form Fields
• AutoSuggest – An autocomplete text field with Ajax
• Really easy field validation with Prototype
• Icebrrg – HTML Web forms, surveys, and invitations made chillingly simple
• Wufoo – Build HTML Forms, Online Surveys and Invitations

NAVIGATION

• CSS Tab Designer is a unique and easy to use software to help you design CSS-based lists and tabs visually and without any programming knowledge required. With the CSS Tab Designer, you can quickly design your list visually, choose from a variety of styles/colors (60+ different designs/colors supported), generate strict XHTML compliant code.
• Colly’s CSS rollover generator allows to create two distinct styles of rollover button, using CSS and just one image. You can optionally allow some background space above your image in which to place CSS- controlled rollover text.
• CSS Menu Generator generates both the CSS and the HTML code required to produce a text-based yet appealing set of navigation buttons. As text links are fast becoming preferred over images where search engine optimization is needed, a CSS menu can give the effectiveness of text links with a better look than standard text links. For an example of a CSS menu, look at our navigation on the left.
• List-O-Matic generates CSS-styled navigation menus based on list items.
• List-O-Rama!allows you to generate nice CSS inline menus in seconds. Just walk through the wizard and insert the text of the links, choose the vertical or horizontal menu, pick the design and click on finish. The code is automatically generated and inserted in your page.
• 13 Styles is all about CSS menus
• CSS navigation menu
• Examples of Navigation, Navigation Menus using CSS
• Dropdown, Flyout, Popup Navigation Menus with CSS
• Multi-Column Navigation with HTML Lists and CSS
• Rollover Navigation Effects with HTML Lists and CSS
• “Sliding Doors” Method of HTML Lists and CSS
• “Sprites” Method of HTML Lists and CSS
• Tabbed Navigation Look with HTML Lists and CSS
• Other CSS Menus Links Resources
• 11 CSS navigation menus : at Exploding Boy
• 12 more CSS Navigation Menus. : at Exploding Boy
• 14 Free Vertical CSS Menus : at Exploding Boy
• 2-level horizontal navigation : demo at Duoh
• Absolute Lists: Alternatives to Divs : An approach of using lists instead of divs at evolt
• Accessible Image-Tab Rollovers : demo at Simplebits
• ADxMenu : multiple menu examples at aPlus
• A drop-down theme : at CSS Play
• Bookend Lists: Using CSS to Float a Masthead : at WebSiteOptimization
• Bulletproof Slants : demo at Simplebits
• Centered Tabs with CSS : at 24ways
• Clickable Link Backgrounds

GALLERIES

• Style Crunch
  StyleCrunch is a css and standards websites gallery
• Stylegala – Web Design Publication
  Stylegala is an online resource and inspiration guide for web agencies, designers and developers who take interest in websites that combine the powers of design, web standards and CSS.
• Submit CSS
  Submit your own css design and view a gallery full of creative design inspiration
• Unmatched Style
  Unmatched Style is a constantly growing community dedicated to acknowledging those who have made exceptionally gorgeous web sites using Cascading Style Sheets and web standards. By recognizing these exceptionally beautiful designs, other designers and businesses can get inspired and find a direction they may wish to take with their own web sites.
• W3 Compliant Sites: Sites designed to comply with W3C Web Site Standards
  A collection of web standards compliant web sites and their designers
• Webdigity
  CSS gallery
• Web Standards Awards
  Awarding web sites that successfully combine form and function
• Well Designed CSS Sites
  Andy Budds List of well styled sites.
• Design Shack – Inspirational CSS and Blog Design
  Design Shack offers regular examples of great CSS, standards based design to help inspire and create. We feature any website which shows off some flair, and doesn’t fit into the standard pattern we come to expect from CSS design.
• Liquid Designs
  Liquid Designs is a gallery of websites designed with liquid layouts using XHTML and CSS
• Piepmatzel
  collecting best practice web standards design examples
• csstux – The best dressed sites on the web
  A gallery of inspiring web site design and resources, focused primarily on sites using cascading style sheets.
• CSS Vault – The Web’s CSS Site
  A repository of sites using cascading style sheets and a list of resources
• CSS Website
  Gallery of Css Design Website. Submit your site.
• CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design
  A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design. Classic!
• CSS-Mania
  CSSmania, the most updated css showcase all over the globe
• CSS Princess
  CSS princess is showcase gallery of beautiful css sites. You can find web sites primarily done completly with css , without tables.
• CSS Reboot
  CSS Gallery – The CSS Reboot is a community event for web professionals and enthusiasts. This November 1st at 18:00 GMT Rebooters from all over the world will launch their web standards-based redesigns
• CSS Remix
  A Fresh Blend of the Best CSS Web Design
• CSS smooth operator // Tite site collection
  Tite site collection, conforms to Web Standards and designed with CSS
• CSS Hazard CSS Inspiration and Gallery
• CSS Heaven
  CSS Gallery – submit your own css design and view a gallery full of creative design inspiration. The submitted designs can be rated
• CSS ImportCSS
  The no-frills CSS Gallery
• CSS Drive- Categorized CSS gallery and examples
  CSS gallery, code samples, tutorials, and moreCSS Collection
• CeeSeS
  CSS Gallery – We are the BalkaniCSS!
• CESKO
  CSS Showcase – Slovenia
• Creative-Pakistan
  Creative-Pakistan.com is a platform to showcase web and CSS designs of creative Pakistani web desginers
• CSSFill
  CSSFILL provides free CSS based layouts and templates
• CSS Galaxy
  CSS Gallery with voting and comments.
• CSS Beauty
  CSS Beauty focuses on providing its audience with a database of well designed CSS based sites, as well as news and happenings on the CSS Design Community. It showcases designers work and serves as inspiration for those looking to build CSS based websites.
• CSS Blast
  Russian CSS Showcase
• CSSBloom
  CSS Gallery with Blog’s and Online Portfolio’s
• CSS Clip
  Web Design Inspiration and Gallery
• CSS Collection
  CSS collection web sites without tables
• CSS-Demo
  CSS Showcase
• CSS Design Yorkshire
  A gallery of CSS web design in Yorkshire UK

FORMATTERS

• Icey CSS Compressor
  Removes everything useless from stylesheets.
• Online CSS Optimizer
  CSS Optimizer optimizes and reduces the file size of the Cascading Style Sheets
• Online CSS Optimiser/Optimizer
  This tool is used to optimise CSS code. Enter either a URL or Copy & Paste the stylesheet into the box, and click Go
• Pretty Printer for PHP, Java, C++, C, Perl, JavaScript, CSS
  This is a source code beautifier (source code formatter), similiar to indent
• Tabifier
  HTML and CSS code beautifier
• CSS Compressor
  Use this utility to compress your CSS to increase loading speed and save on bandwidth as well.
• CSS Formatierer und Optimierer
  CSS optimize
• CSSTidy
  CSSTidy is an opensource CSS parser and optimiser…..
• Clean CSS – Optmize and Format your CSS
  CSS Formatter and Optimizer, CSS Formatted und Optimizer
• Format CSS Online
  Automatically format your CSS (cascading style sheets) so they are easy to read and edit.

TUTORIALS

• Creating a CSS layout from scratch
• Advanced CSS Layouts: Step by Step
• Cascading Style Sheets Tutorial Part 1
• CSS Template Tutorials – Setting Up - This is the part one of the complete tutorials. These series of tutorials will teach you how to design a template in Photoshop, slice it and convert it to a CSS layout.
• Step 2- Coding the basics
• Step 3- Slicing and Coding the Header
• Step 4- CSS Horizontal Navigation
• Step 5- Floating the columns
• Step 6- Coding the content
• Step 7- Right Column Navigation
• Step 8- Finishing Off
  
• Slice and code a layout tutorial – “In this css / xhtml tutorial I’ll show you how to slice a design in Photoshop, and how to code it from scratch in CSS and xHTML.”
• Advanced CSS Layouts: Step by Step – a step by step tutorial on Creating a 3 column CSS layout.
• Slice a Template and Code it Using CSS – A very well written tutorial on slicing a PSD file and converting it into a CSS layout
• Converting Photoshop Web Template File To HTML/XHTML/CSS Web Page File Video Tutorial “In these videos tutorial, you will learn how to convert photoshop web template file in .PSD to HTML file and Css file”
• CSS Template Layout – part 1 of 3 – A three-part article on creating a pure CSS web page
• CSS Template Layout – part 2 of 3
• CSS Template Layout – part 3 of 3
• Designing a CSS based template
  “This is the start of a step-by-step based tutorial about how to create a CSS based template page. This will be a tutorial consisting of several parts: part 1 covers the creation of the navigation buttons in Photoshop CS*, the 2nd part will be the creation of the background, next on the list is the header and layout of the page and finally the implementation in CSS and XHTML.”
• Designing a CSS based template – part II
• Designing a CSS based template – part III
• Creating CSS Layouts In Dreamweaver, Part 1 – 3-part video series tutorial
• Creating CSS Layouts In Dreamweaver, Part 2
• Creating CSS Layouts In Dreamweaver, Part 3
• Breaking Out of the Box With CSS Layouts – A grate article by sitepoint on creating beautiful grid based CSS layouts
• 3 Column All CSS Layout With Fluid Center and Two Columns – This tutorial teaches you how to create a 3 column layout with a fluid center and two fixed width sidebars.
• Liquid CSS Layouts – Design Alternative to Table Based Websites – How to transform fixed table layouts to liquid CSS based layouts
• Rock-solid CSS Layouts – This chapter is excerpted from SitePoint’s HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS, Second Edition, which provides a complete introduction to CSS and shows you how to build rock-solid CSS-based web sites from scratch
• Building a page template in CSS – A quick step-by-step demonstration of how the Web Essentials template was built using CSS
• Two column layout using CSS and divider image – This tutorial explains how to design two column CSS layout with a line dividing left column from the right going through the whole length of the page, regardless of the length of the columns. See it in action: Demo
• 9 Top CSS Essential Skills That Every Web designer Should Learn
• Utilizing CSS Best Practices: Making a Great Blank CSS Template File for Next Projects
• How to create button-like navigation using CSS?
• 25 Code Snippets for Web Designers (Part1)
• 25 Code Snippets for Web Designers (Part2)
• 25 Code Snippets for Web Designers (Part3)
• CSS Dock Menu
• Most used CSS tricks
• 50 Extremely Useful And Powerful CSS Tools
• 12 CSS Tools and Tutorials for Beautiful Web Typography
• 101 CSS Techniques Of All Time- Part 1
• 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without
• Powerful CSS-Techniques For Effective Coding
• CSS Cheat Sheets

see more: http://www.antsmagazine.com/2009/05/best-css-tools-and-tutorials/