Master Stylesheet: The Most Useful CSS Technique

I read this article on Crucial Web Hosting. This article helps me a lot in making css of any project. Organizing your CSS helps with future maintainability of the site.

Take a Look here to see what they have shown

/***** Global Settings *****/

html, body {
border:0;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}

body {
font:100%/1.25 arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}

/***** Common Formatting *****/

h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
margin:0;
padding:0;
font-weight:normal;
}

h1 {
padding:30px 0 25px 0;
letter-spacing:-1px;
font:2em arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}

h2 {
padding:20px 0;
letter-spacing:-1px;
font:1.5em arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}

h3 {
font:1em arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight:bold;
}

p, ul, ol {
margin:0;
padding:0 0 18px 0;
}

ul, ol {
list-style:none;
padding:0 0 18px 40px;
}

blockquote {
margin:22px 40px;
padding:0;
}

small {
font-size:0.85em;
}

img {
border:0;
}

sup {
position:relative;
bottom:0.3em;
vertical-align:baseline;
}

sub {
position:relative;
bottom:-0.2em;
vertical-align:baseline;
}

acronym, abbr {
cursor:help;
letter-spacing:1px;
border-bottom:1px dashed;
}

/***** Links *****/

a, a:visited {
text-decoration:none;
}

/***** Forms *****/

form {
margin:0;
padding:0;
display:inline;
}

input, select, textarea {
font:1em arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}

textarea {
line-height:1.25;
}

label {
cursor:pointer;
}

/***** Tables *****/

table {
border:0;
margin:0 0 18px 0;
padding:0;
}

table tr td {
padding:2px;
}

/***** Wrapper *****/

#wrap {
width:960px;
margin:0 auto;
}

/***** Global Classes *****/

.clear { clear:both; }

.float-left { float:left; }
.float-right { float:right; }

.text-left { text-align:left; }
.text-right { text-align:right; }
.text-center { text-align:center; }
.text-justify { text-align:justify; }

.bold { font-weight:bold; }
.italic { font-style:italic; }
.underline { border-bottom:1px solid; }
.highlight { background:#ffc; }

.wrap { width:960px;margin:0 auto; }

.img-left { float:left;margin:4px 10px 4px 0; }
.img-right { float:right;margin:4px 0 4px 10px; }

.nopadding { padding:0; }
.noindent { margin-left:0;padding-left:0; }
.nobullet { list-style:none;list-style-image:none; }

You’ll notice the global classes at the bottom, which cover basic styling, and will remove styling that we intially set. For example, the .nobullet and .noindent work great on an unordered or ordered list. You can add your own classes there that you use a lot.

Hope you all found this useful, click here to view the stylesheet.

I totally disagree with Jakob Nielsen on Web2.0 “Distracts Good Design”.

I read this on Hitesh's Blog yesterday. I really like the explanation given by Hitesh to each point and also agree with him on Web 2.0 is not all about glossy buttons and making text big but it is more about usability.