Even the most complex style sheet starts out with a single rule. But when you’re working on a particularly massive and complex website, over time your style sheet will inevitably start to reflect the site’s size and complexity. And even […]
There are two ways in CSS to create space around your elements: margins and padding. In most usage scenarios, they are functionally identical – for example, if you add 20 pixels of either margin or padding to the left side […]
Smart Image Resizer — Shifting Pixel
Although this isn’t technically CSS related, I think it’s a sufficiently valuable resource to share. Shifting Pixel has just released their “Smart Image Resizer” PHP script. Basically, this script allows you to upload one large-sized […]
Imagine: You’ve been working on your brand new, beautifully cascading style sheet for most of the day. You save your work, load it into a browser, and… what the heck?! Nothing’s working right! You know you didn’t make any huge […]
There is a disease out there in the CSS world. It can afflict anything from the meanest weblog (or the nicest ones too, I suppose) to the greatest of corporate websites. It’s called Classitis, and I’ve encountered it far too […]
A Guide to Web Typography | i love typography, the typography blog
John Boardley has posted a great, accessible article on the art of typography on the web. If you’re new to writing for the web, this article is a good […]
Some of the best tools in any web developer’s toolset are completely free. Today I’m going to talk a bit about the Firefox Error Console, and how it can help you become a better CSS author.
First, it’s important to mention […]
One of the nice things about languages like CSS is that you don’t have to write them in any specific way. For example, you could place all the CSS rules for your entire website on a single line of text, […]
How to Create Beautiful and Elegant HTML Lists Using CSS — Konstruktors Notes
This article is a great place to start for those wanting a deeper understanding of how the various browsers render XHTML lists by default (hint: IE is the […]
One of the most useful properties of both unordered lists (which we fancied up earlier this week) and ordered lists is their ability to nest — that is, to contain lists within lists. And one of the most common examples […]
