Despite the display property’s seemingly limited use, you’d be surprised how many CSS techniques rely on this little workhorse to get the job done. Here are five CSS techniques I’ve written about in the past that wouldn’t exist without the help of the display property. […]
Generating footnotes for HTML documents in the past was always a slow, painful task — and every time I did it, I wondered why there wasn’t a better, easier way. Today, I’m happy to announce that I’ve come up with a better solution to web footnotes using the jQuery JavaScript framework and a few tags and attributes that already exist in XHTML. And I’m even happier to show you how to do it! […]
My favorite links for this last week are an eclectic mix. Here we have a collection of textures, a discussion on form design, a different sort of form development, and finally a survey. Enjoy! […]
The realm of CSS is a realm of boxes. However, the forthcoming CSS3 specification offers us a glimmer of hope in the form of rounded corners. And better yet, a few browsers already support rounded corners! […]
The month of August holds a lot of special significance to me. My birthday is in August (is, in fact, this Wednesday). I work for a great company that features the word “August” in its masthead. The month itself was […]
PNGs (Portable Network Graphics) are one of the coolest things to happen to the web in the last decade. Unfortunately due to terrible PNG support in Internet Explorer 6 (which is arguably one of the least cool things to happen to the web in the last decade), PNGs have never really caught on. However, as IE6 usage starts to drop and PNG support in all major modern browsers, PNGs are set to make a comeback… […]
Everyone blogs for different reasons. But whatever you’d attribute to yourself, one thing is probably true: you’d love it if your blogging habit would pay for itself. But how do you start making money with your blog? The only people who can jump into income-producing blogging without a good deal of planning and understanding are those who are already famous in another genre. For the rest of us, there’s Yaro Starak’s Blog Mastermind online course. […]
I’ve been doing a bit of research lately on creating RSS-only content for my website – that is, content that shows up in my RSS feed and nowhere else. My searching has lead me to two very nice Wordpress plugins that should do the job that I need to do. I’ve also come up with a way to accomplish the same feat using just HTML and CSS. […]
30 Exceptional CSS Techniques and Examples
The always-informative mind(s) behind Six Revisions has compiled yet another excellent CSS-related roundup. This one is a little general in theme, namely “Exceptional CSS Techniques and Examples.” Normally I wouldn’t bother linking such a […]
We all know the overt benefits of using CSS. But these days, a lot of people are more interested in SEO than anything else. So what happens if you have a client or an employer whose mantra is more along the lines of, “SEO at any cost, CSS be damned”? […]
