Use the Display Element Information feature in the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar to figure out what’s Cascading in your CSS. It could save you hours of frustration, preserve handfuls of hair, and give you quick visual cues about the extended ‘family’ of an element in your CSS.

As I’ve mentioned before, if you’re not using Firefox, you darn well should be. Just do it already, okay? Here are a few reasons why.

Then download the Web Developer Toolbar; an incredibly useful, free Firefox Extension for web designers. Even after using it for well over a year, I’m still finding helpful features.

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I promise that I won’t make every post about icon sources, but while I’m thinking of it, here’s one more icon project that I’d certainly endorse: Dan Cederholm’s SimpleBits Icons.

Dan’s written a few terrific books on web standards design entitled Web Standards Solutions and Bulletproof Web Design.

I highly recommend them both. They camp out next to me in my quick reference stack and I refer to them regularly. If you’re into CSS and web standards, they’re downright fun to read. But I digress . . .

Mr. Cederholm also created some royalty-free stock icons that you can purchase directly from his site, and although he doesn’t have the same variety of iconography as some other sources, I like his simple, direct style.

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Another place to pick up stock icons for your web projects is at IconBuffet.com.

Created by Firewheel Design, IconBuffet has an interesting business model: they give away icons.

If you signup for their Free Delivery program, they’ll send a small set of icons to you every month for free. You can then swap icons with other members in their active forum community.

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Looking for help understanding CSS, HTML, xHTML, PHP, JavaScript or other web designer / developer stuff?

Take a look at W3Schools Online Web Tutorials.

All of their content is free to use (it’s ad supported) and there’s TONS of useful tutorials, references, examples, quizzes, and more.

The ads can be a bit annoying, but you can’t beat the price. Have fun!

Flickr’s photo sharing and community tools make organizing and sharing your pictures more fun. There are also several slick ways to use Flickr if you’re a web designer.

I know, I know, Flickr’s been out for a while and it seems like everyone is using it.

Since Flickr was nominated for several Webby Awards this year and recently won for “Best Navigation/Structure,” it got me thinking about the reasons I like Flickr:

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