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 […]
No web presence these days is complete without a little pixel lovin’ in the form of images. If you have a blog or website out there somewhere without a single image anywhere on the site, well… 1997 called. They said […]
Do you remember all those wonderful hand-me-down children’s books from your childhood, or perhaps those dusty old tomes you’ve leafed through at a used bookstore recently? I still like looking through old books of Days Gone By. Their typefaces, in […]
