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There are so many out there, but only a few I find myself returning to over and over again.

Web Page Design for Designers - CSS from the Ground Up is an excellent article to introduce the uninitiated to CSS or to get a refresher course on the basics for the rest.

CSS Zen Garden - a good place to find inspiration, this site’s mission is to prove that CSS is a powerful way to approach web design, as fluid and flexible as the designs themselves.

mezzoblue - David Shea’s blog, about web design, the web in general and a few other topics on his mind.

A List Apart - These articles about CSS I have found very useful:

1. Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks, & Techniques by Mark Newhouse
   
2. CSS Sprites: Image Slicing’s Kiss of Death by David Shea
   
3. Night of the Image Map by Stuart Robertson
4. CSS Design: Creating Custom Corners & Borders by Søren Madsen

I use A List Apart for advanced CSS techniques. I only read these articles when I know I am going to sit down and actually use them on a project. I often find that applying a technique will make me understand the article much faster and helps me remember how to approach a similar problem next time.

Molly - Molly E. Holzschlag is a professional CSS bug squasher. In my own opinion, anyway. She describes herself as a Web-standards advocate, instructor, and author. These are all true, of course, but I like my title better.

When I first started building CSS layouts, I discovered a bug in my CSS, causing the web site I was working on to jar the design out of place. I e-mailed Molly, unable to find a fix myself, and would you believe it, she answered me back the next day with a friendly and helpful response! It turns out my site had a bad DOCTYPE declaration, and everything was running in quirks mode.

If I don’t understand how a technique is applied (outside of theory), I often visit mezzoblue, SimpleBits, or Molly’s web site to see a practical example of how it works.