Ok, I’m not a designer, I’m a developer. So tips that are new to me are often old hat to my designer friends.

Nonetheless, I put tips out in hopes that they’ll be as helpful to me as they are to other non-designer developers who are still often called upon to put together a simple site that still looks decent.

So, I was looking into rounded corners today. You know, the cool hip rounded stuff you see on every Web 2.0 site. So I found Smiley Cat’s CSS Rounded Corners Roundup, a big list of rounded corners techniques. What I liked is that many of them had online generators, so I could type in some parameters (color, size, roundedness) and be given the exact HTML, CSS, and images I need to pull off my cool rounded corners effect.

For example, I got this from roundedcornr.com:

I also ran across a javascript/css-only version called Nifty Corners Cube. Since it only uses CSS and javascript to give rounded corners to DIVs, no images are needed, and the latest version of NiftyCorners lets you do other stuff like rounded menu tabs, or complex layouts.