If you really want to create graphs and charts with fancy UI or features, then you should consider either Javascript Chart or using Flash.

In this article, we cover 11 tutorials and solutions for you to create graphs and charts using CSS. There are a lot of tutorials and sample about CSS graphs, but we hand-picked 11 best solutions. Let’s start to look into them one by one.

1. CSS only bar charts

This pure CSS solution able to plot car charts without rely on heavy Javascript. With this solution, you can also implement mouse hover effect to the bar chart. The author had packed everything in a PHP file, which you can download and using it as a web service.

2. Pure Css Data Chart

With this pure CSS Data Chart techniques, you can easily create good-looking bar chart with well-formed markup and CSS.

3. CSS bar charts – styling data with CSS3 and progressive enhancement

This solution uses CSS3 and progressive enhancement to push the bar charts to the next level. Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari/Chrome will have different look and feel, where Safari/Chrome having the most beautiful look. It is because both Safari and Chrome use Webkit as the rendering engine and Webkit’s proprietary CSS is above and beyond that of any other rendering engine.

4. CSS Vertical Bar Graphs

This CSS graphs solution is really really simple as everything here is a simple set of nested lists and CSS. The gradient background images is in PNG format, so Internet Explorer users may get different results. If you are going to target IE audiences, then you should go for IE-friendly version of CSS Vertical Bar Graphs, which you can download from the same page also.

5. CSS Stacked Bar Graphs

This CSS technique is based on Alen Grakalic’s solution, which we had covered in the second solution(Pure Css Data Chart). The interesting part of this solution is it manage to plat stacked bar graphs. It doesn’t involve any Javascript/PHP. If you know HTML and CSS, then you should be able to understand the tutorial.

6. Pure CSS Horizontal Bar Graphs

We have seen a lot of examples and solution about vertical bar charts/graphs and now we should look into horizontal bar graphs solution too. This long but well-explained tutorial will go through how to plat a horizontal bar graph step by step.

7. Flexible Bar Graphs using CSS

If you really like the way CSS Bakery teaches, then you should go through their tutorial about ploting vertical bar graphs too.

8. CSS For Bar Graphs

This article covered 3 different types of graphs and charts, which including Basic CSS Bar Graph, Complex CSS Bar Graph and also Vertical CSS Bar Graph.

9. Pure Css Line Graph

With so much examples and techniques for bar charts/graphs, now we turn our attention to the line graph. This is a great tutorial from CSS Globe. Alen covered the basic concept and principle of this solution.

10. An accessible bar chart

This accessible bar chart uses HTML table and pure CSS. However, the bar is created using image which is stretched to the appropriate size.

11. Simple bar graph with help of CSS

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Do you want to know more about CSS Frameworks and grid system? If yes, then you may want to read our previous article that talk about useful CSS Frameworks.

Today, we are going to look into 5 more CSS Grid Systems that are tiny but worth a look.

1. CSS Boiler Plate Grid

As one of the original authors of Blueprint CSS I’ve decided to re-factor my ideas into a stripped down framework which provides the bare essentials to begin any project. This framework will be lite and strive not to suggest un-semantic naming conventions. You’re the designer and your craft is important.

2. Golden Grid CSS

The Golden Grid is a web grid system. It ’s a product of the search for the perfect modern grid system. It ’s meant to be a CSS tool for grid based web sites.

3. Variable Grid System

The variable grid system is a quick way to generate an underlying CSS grid for your site. The CSS generated file is based on the 960 Grid System.

4. Grid System Generator

This tool generates grid systems in valid css / xhtml for rapid prototyping, development and production environments. The grid system generators offer the ability to customize the width, no. of columns and margin(s) to allow more flexibility for various designs.

5. The 1kb CSS Grid

Other CSS frameworks try to do everything—grid system, style reset, basic typography, form styles. But complex systems are, well, complex. Looking for a simple, lightweight approach that doesn’t require a PhD? Meet The 1KB CSS Grid.

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If you don’t want to submit your design one by one, you may consider The CSS Gallery List, which is a service that will submit your web design to 87 CSS Galleries. It cost you $20, but it save you a lot of efforts and time. Now we will continue to look into the CSS Galleries:

56. CSSRank

57. CSSReboot

58. CSS Showcase

59. CSS Showcases Gallery

60. CSS Snap

61. CSS Star

62. CSS Vault

63. Design Bombs

64. CSS Wrap

65. CSS Artillery

66. CSSBloom

67. CSSclip

68. CSS Elite

69. CSS Exchange

70. CSS Glance

71. CSS Moon

72. CSS Remix

73. CSS Season

74. CSS Tux

75. Design Grabs

76. DesignFlavr

77. Design Snack

78. Design Snips

79. Designer Source

80. Dezinspiration

81. Folio Stars

82. Free CSS.com

83. CSS Cookie

84. Selected Webdesign

85. Hot Webber

86. Inspiration Up

87. Inspiration King

88. jQuery Style

89. Lookom

90. Minimalsites

91. Most Inspired

92. 3W CSS Website

93. One Page Love

94. Oriental Gallery

95. Posh’d

96. RGB Garden

97. Screenalicious

98. Submit CSS

99. The Best Designs

100. Themes-CSS

101. Dot Design

102. Unique CSS

103. Web Creme

104. Design Creme

105. Unmatched Style

106. WebDesignire

107. Dark-i

108. Website-Gallery

109. WeLoveWP

110. WPLuxe

111. Your Site Is Valid

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Without these online generators, designers have to waste extra effords to do repeat jobs. Since we had shared about CSS Frameworks last week, i would like to extend the topic by sharing some useful CSS grid layout generator.

1. Grid Layout Generator by Pagecolumn

   

2. Grid Generator by DesignByGrid

   

3. Blueprint Grid CSS Generator

   

4. Grid Generator by netProtozo

   

5. Grid Designer (featured in Creative Review magazine)

   

6. Grid System Generator

   

7. YUI CSS Grid Builder

   

8. Variable Grid System

   

9. YAML Builder

   

10. Layout Generators by Pagecolumn

    

11. Fisheye

    

12. CSS Layout Generator by CSSCreator

    

13. Firdamatic

    

14. CSS Source Ordered Variable Border 1-3 Columned Page Maker

    

15. CSS Layout Generator by CSSPortal

    

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Today, we are going to share about 110+ CSS Galleries that you may want to look into when submitting your design or when you want to get some inspirations for your project.  The list is too long to fit into 1 post, so i am going to divide it into 2 posts.

1. 101 Best Websites

   

2. Nice Stylesheet

   

3. Stylegala Gallery

   

4. Avenue CSS

   

5. Best CSS Design

   

6. Best CSS Gallery

   

7. Best Design Web Gallery

   

8. Best Web Gallery

   

9. Best CSS Designs

   

10. BmAccess

    

11. Boxed CSS

    

12. CartCraze

    

13. CreamyCSS

    

14. CSS-Imagine

    

15. CSS Based

    

16. CSS Beauty

    

17. Mabucplus

    

18. Brigit

    

19. CSS Collection

    

20. CSS Container

    

21. CSS Count

    

22. CSS Cream

    

23. CSS Design Awards Gallery

    

24. CSS Tea

    

25. CSS Design Yorkshire

    

26. CSS Drive

    

27. CSS Flash

    

28. CSS Flavor

    

29. CSS Fresh Blend

    

30. CSS Heroes

    

31. Urbantrash CSS Gallery

    

32. Style The Web

    

33. CSS Daddy

    

34. CSS Arts

    

35. CSSem

    

36. CSS Mix

    

37. CSS Dance

    

38. CSS Style

    

39. CSS Loggia

    

40. CSS Impress

    

41. Divine CSS

    

42. One CSS

    

43. CSS Website

    

44. CSS Pick

    

45. CSS Blaze

    

46. CSS Breeze

    

47. CSS 2.0

    

48. CSS Burst

    

49. CSS Heaven

    

50. DesignShack CSS Gallery

    

51. CSS Leak

    

52. CSS Hook

    

53. CSS Mania

    

54. CSS Mess

    

55. CSS Orgy

    

This is the part one of the two-part series of Ultimate CSS Gallery List. The next post will be published next few days. So, stay tuned for the follow-up by subscribing to the RSS feed.

Update: I had posted the Part 2 of 110+ CSS Gallery To Submit your Web Design. Hope you will like them.

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Just like other programming and scripting language, CSS do have some repeat code that can be packed together to ease our daily job.

When use properly, CSS Framework may cut down your development time. On the other hand, it may cause extra works and time if you choose the wrong framework for your project.

There are a lot of open source CSS Framework, and you can easily reach them by using Google. Today, I am going to show you 10 promising CSS Framework that worth a look.

1. Blueprint: A CSS Framework

   
   Blueprint includes a CSS reset that eliminates the discrepancies across different browsers. There are a lot of external tools and templates to aid your web development with Blueprint.

2. 960 Grid System

   
   Another excellent CSS Framework that worth a look. The download includes templates for Fireworks, Photoshops, Inkscape and etc. so that you can start designing your web template immediately. The PSD file that comes with guides ready save designers a lot of time.

3. Tripoli Framework

   Tripoli had been tested and supports virtually all available browsers, including IE5! It comes with some base files, and some plugins such as “Layout”, “Visual”, “Type”, and “Negative”.

4. YAML – Yet Another Multicolumn Layout

   YAML is another bulletproof CSS Framework that has a very good documentation. You can easily get started by downloading the PDF documentation and the sample project from the official site. There are some tools that will help you on your development too. For example, the YAML Builder can visually create YAML-based CSS layouts.

5. YUI Grid CSS

   YUI Grids CSS support fluid-width layouts as well as fixed-width layouts. This is the advantage of YUI Grids CSS over the other CSS Frameworks. To get started with YUI Grids CSS, you can download the cheat sheet and YUI Grids Builder from the official site.

6. BlueTrip

   
   BlueTrip is a full featured and beautiful framework that combines advantages from different CSS Framework. The official site has a complete documentation and demos.

7. Content With Style

   
   This is a fixed width layout and the zip files contains a few layouts such as vertical navigation with 1 content column, vertical navigation with 2 content columns, and etc.

8. Elastic CSS Framework

   
   Elastic provides a declarative language to define the layout structure and behavior. This is a young framework, and the best site to demo the usage of Elastic is the official site itself.

9. Molio CSS/HTML Templates

   Mollio was launched since IE7 exposed a few rendering problems. It is a starting point for website layout and very suitable for beginners that start learning CSS Frameworks.

10. SenCSS

    
    SenCSS doesn’t include a layout system, but it does provide other things such as baseline, fonts, paddings, margins and more. It comes with a commented version and a minified version which suitable for production use.

Some other CSS Framework that you may consider too

1. WYMstyle
2. CSS-boilerplate
3. Typogridphy
4. CleverCSS
5. Logicss

Conclusion

Choosing a right CSS Framework is the most important step. I used both Blueprint and 960 framework regularly and now i start to combine the advantages of both framework and try to come out with a framework that suit me. So how about you, my dearest readers?

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