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Working in my preferred "best-of-breed" environment (i.e. the closest thing I can get to a completely CSS & XHTML standards compliant browser...Chrome or Firefox) and then working backwards, I noticed myself trowling the intertubes for a CSS selector...and then getting totally hung up (again...) on the nifty things CSS has in store for you IE users, y'know, when Microsoft finally wraps it's noggin around CSS3 - fully.  My example is short and sweet, but totally useless to the IE market. Basically, I have an unordered list of items that I want to turn into an inline footer navigation with pipes between each item. SilverStripe's templating makes this a little difficult; that's why I started playing with CSS. This is what I came up with, and I'll be darned - like a sock, bwahaha - if it didn't work in everything (but IE):

Over and over again, I find myself needing to put text over an image for some reason or another. (Darned designers and their good ideas!)  Recently, I decided to fake it and just cut the image from a designer's PSD and use an image map. I know, I know; I'm bad. It was the quickest way I could think of to get this task done, until the customer wanted different wording and I couldn't track down the PSD.