CSS Newbie reader Andrea Pluhar wrote in with an interesting problem: she wanted to use a CSS dropdown menu on a website that she was building, but the design called for the submenu to be arranged horizontally. She wondered if there was a way to accomplish this effect using CSS. It turns out that there is. […]
» 8 fonts you probably don’t use in css, but should – Web Design Marketing Podcast & Blog
After a while, many websites all start to look alike. The primary culprit is typography: there are only so many fonts that […]
Sometimes when I’m building a vertical navigation menu Internet Explorer 6 will add a bunch of white space between the list items. So what’s going on, and how do we fix it? […]
Attractive dropdown menus have long been the realm of Flash developers and advanced JavaScript gurus. But that needn’t be the case. This tutorial will walk you through developing a clean, semantic dropdown menu using XHTML and CSS that works in all modern browsers! […]
Hypsometry. On tradition, harmony, pitch, the atonal, typography, Fibonacci, and coincidence.
This article may be a little headier than most of the things I link to, but Chris Boone has put together an interesting argument for the use of the […]
So let’s say – hypothetically – that you’ve decided to take the plunge and replace all of the font tags in your website with semantic code and CSS. Hypothetical congratulations! You’re one step closer to web nirvana. Or perhaps you’ve […]
There are plenty of reasons why you might feel the urge to wax verbose on your website’s front page: to prevent your users from having to click through to a new page to find your information, to avoid having to reload the page, or even to improve your front page’s SEO. But just because your front page is text-heavy doesn’t mean it all needs to be visible at once. […]
Xinu Returns – SEO Site Diagnosis Tool – Check PageRank, Backlinks, Indexed Pages, Rankings and more
It can be tough to get a grasp on all elements of Search Engine Optimization at once — there’s a lot to remember! But this […]
If you’ve been a CSS groupie or follower of this website for any length of time, you should have a fairly firm grasp on the concept of using classes in XHTML as “hooks” into your pages (and if not, this […]
Maintaining a site as complex as CSSnewbie requires a bit more than just fancy CSS footwork. It also relies on a Content Management System (CMS) – WordPress, in this case – and a healthy dose of plugins to extend that […]
