Archive for August, 2007

Just like you can validate your HTML at the W3C, you can validate your CSS.

CSS-Tricks passes muster.…

You can get pretty specific when declaring how you want text to look with CSS:

p {
  font-family: Verdana;
  background-color: #7A2121;
  color: #B93333;
  text-decoration: underline;
  word-spacing: Normal;
  text-align: left;
  letter-spacing: 1px;
  text-indent: 15px;
  line-height: 16px;
  font-size: 10px;
  font-weight: bold;
  font-style: 

Dan Cole has an interesting article up about creating a logo using only CSS. Why?

• Faster loading time
• Works with images disabled
• Scalable

Here is what it looks like:

Here is how it was done:

#tower1 {
position:absolute;
top:51px;

This is old news, but is worth of revisiting because of it’s preposterousness. You are able to add CSS to your MySpace pages. Cool. But where do you do that? Is there some little fun CSS editor they built in? …

I really like this subtle effect on the fortuito.us blog. the text at the bottom of the page fades away. Even as you scroll the page content up and down, it appears as if it fades away into the …

It can be a mighty cool effect to have images that nestle themselves in the four corners of your webpage. You can achieve this positioning with CSS fairly easily without affecting any of your other page content. You may also …

If you are adding video to your website, using embedded YouTube videos is definitely something to consider. In addition to saving hugely on bandwidth, releasing your video into the wild on YouTube might gain you some exposure you may have …

It is a very healthy technique these days to center your entire website horizontally in the browser window (but be careful), especially nowadays with monitors getting bigger and bigger and with higher resolution. Sometimes it’s nice to break the …

There is a great tutorial on CSS Play that uses pure CSS to create flipbook style animation. The theory at work here is that there is there is a big stack of “slides” stacked on top of each other. On …

Despite their status as mortal enemies, divs and tables can work together if you need them to. Because of the ability to use vertical centering in tables, it is a somewhat popular technique to use a single-celled table with both …

You’ve heard of “clearing floats”, but do you really understand it? The whole problem is that floated objects do not add to the height of the object …