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 […]
Anchor tags (a.k.a. links or hyperlinks) (these things: <a>) are one of the more ubiquitous elements of the web world. In fact, it’s the anchor tags that put the ‘Web’ in the World Wide Web – they’re the points of […]
There are three different ways in CSS you can dictate which elements you want to style. Each way is useful for a specific set of purposes, but by using all three together, you can really harness the cascading power of style sheets. The three methods of describing objects on a page are by their tag name, their ID, or their class. […]
So if you’ve read “What is this CSS thing, anyway?” (which I’d recommend doing), you have a basic understanding as to what CSS is on a theoretical level. And I’m sure you’re a better person for it. But what about […]
A fundamental understanding of the CSS box model is essential to gaining a basic understanding of CSS in general. The good news is, if you can pack a box in real life, you can understand the CSS box model. And if you can’t pack a box in real life due to some traumatic physical injury, you shouldn’t have much of a problem, either. Also, I’m sorry about bringing up the whole box thing. […]
So you’ve been hanging around the web gurus long enough to know that “CSS” is something big and important in the web design world. You might even know that it has something to do with making pages pretty, or more Web 2.0, or something like that. And that’s true (to an extent). But what does CSS really mean? […]
