Unordered lists are one of the most pervasive elements on the web, probably just behind paragraphs and hyperlinks in terms of their bunny-like abundance. And for good reason: bulleted (i.e., unordered) lists are a great way to convey a bunch […]
9 Practical Ways to Enhance your Web Development Using the Firefox Web Developer Extension | Six Revisions
This is a fantastic resource for one of the best free tools out there — the Web Developer extension for the Firefox web browser. […]
I’ve developed a trick over the years that I’ve used on a number of websites now for making my sites’ navigation bars “intelligent” or “self-aware.” By that, I mean that the navigation bar automatically knows which tab/button/whatever should be considered […]
Navigation bars are the signposts of the web world: we take them for granted because of their ubiquity, but we’d all have a much harder time getting around without them. On most websites, nav bars hold a position of honor […]
Test your web design in different browsers – Browsershots
If you’ve ever designed a page more complicated than, say, a single line of text, you’ve probably come up against a surprise or two when you loaded the page into your less-than-favorite […]
CSS doesn’t apply exclusively to the Realm of the Screen. You can also write style sheets that apply to the medium that first spawned them – print. This can be a very useful trick, since people read on the screen […]
It’s inevitable: the longer you work with CSS, the longer your CSS files will grow. And the longer your files get, the tougher it will be to find what you’re looking for when you go back to edit your website’s styles later on down the road. This is where CSS comments can really come in handy. […]
One quick and easy way to keep your CSS clean and well-structured is to remember (what I’m going to title) the four CSS Rules of Multiplicity. They are:
Multiple declarations can live in a single rule.
Multiple selectors can preface the same […]
Pure Css Data Chart | Css Globe
In this great article from CSS Globe, Alen Grakalic explains how to create a very attractive bar chart using nothing but a XHTML definition list and a whole lot of CSS. There is plenty […]
There are three ways to inject a bit of CSS magic into your web pages. They are inline styles, in-document styles via the <style> tag, and linked style sheets. Each is valuable in its own right – the trick is […]
