Being a web designer can be difficult at times, always striving for creativity in your design and new techniques that will dazzle your clients/users. Sometimes we need inspiration from other designers to turn that creative spark into a flame.

Smashing Magazine has posted yet another incredibly inspiring list of 50 new CSS-techniques, ideas and ready-to-use solutions for effective web design. You may already know some of them but definitely not all of them.

My personal favorite on the list is #22 CSS Dock Menu (shown below) but I assure you that everything is worth taking a look at.

I found this utility, CSS Grid Builder the other day on yahoo, It’s quite useful.

A simple interface for grids customization. Its a web based application thats easy to use and very user friendly. I used it to start a custom Wordpress Theme that I’ve been working on these last couple of days.

Learn more about the CSS Grid builder on Yahoo Developers Network: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/

Or go right to the builder: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/builder/