Want to dress up your Gmail account up a bit with CSS and your Firefox browser? Then check this out. By following the instructions laid out here in this article, you can really dress up that old Gmail account into something worth looking at.

One advantage of getting on the CSS/XHTML bandwagon (i.e. not just standards-compliant design, but truly separating markup from presentation) is that different style sheets can be swapped in, totally modifying the appearance of a site, without requiring any tag-level changes at all. This has been demonstrated to great effect in the CSS Zen Garden, and can be seen from time to time in the form of style sheet switchers on sites. However, even if a site’s designer doesn’t deem to provide alternate stylesheets, most modern browsers support client stylesheets that can override the appearance. Most of the time these are used for little tweaks such as hiding ads from common providers or disabling link underlining in browsers that do not specifically have such a feature (Safari).