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Throwing Tables Out the Window is the article on redesigning Microsoft's home page and the incredible amount of bandwidth they'd save if they did it.

Designing With Web Standards is the big orange book that talks about why web standards are worthwhile and demonstrates a CSS redesign. Evans library has a copy.
- 99.9% of Websites are Obsolete became the first chapter of Designing With Web Standards.
- Developing With Web Standards: Recommendations and Best Practices is a decent, concise substitute for the first half of the book.
- Redesign tutorials at MaxDesign and Digital Web Magazine.
- And the New York Public Library Style Guide is the author's intro to XHTML and CSS.
Eric Meyer on CSS is the big blue book that starts out with a CSS redesign and moves on to more complicated projects.
- Picking a Rendering Mode is the deleted chapter that includes a decent overview of the box model problem.
Web Standards Solutions is the big yellow book that explores which XHTML methods are best for various things (lists, headings, tables, blockquotes, forms, etc.) and then talks about how you can use CSS to dress things up.
- The SimpleQuiz series was the basis for most of the chapters in Web Standards Solutions.
Cascading Stylesheets 2.0 Programmer's Reference

I mentioned using a style switcher for print-friendly versions instead of using the media attribute as described in both those articles.

A List Apart
Digital Web Magazine
Here's a huge list of learning resources for CSS, web standards, and accessibility. The blog at this site is a great daily read.
The CSS-Discuss wiki indexes all the tips, tricks, and bug workarounds you'll need.