I’d really like to think that every developer out there that this site helps will turn around and produce clean, semantic XHTML to which to apply their lovely, efficient CSS. But that isn’t always the case. So once again, CSS comes to the rescue! […]
50+ Designers to Follow on Twitter | Vandelay Website Design
Twitter has grown on me as a method of communication in the last few months — I like the insight it gives me into the lives and minds of the […]
Have you tried out Firebug yet? If not, you might want to consider giving it a go. It’s one of a few Firefox extensions that I use almost daily in my web development work, and I can guarantee that it’s made my life at least a little bit easier. […]
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. […]
