Links of Interest
If you come from a print background at all, one of the things you might sorely miss is the concept of “tabs”. For example, think of a restaurant menu where the title of the dish is on the left, then …
Archive for November, 2007
More Information Regarding HTML Emails
Since I published my article on using CSS in HTML emails a few days ago, there has been a couple of great articles published on the same subject. I want to highlight some of these, and some other related articles …
My 5 Favorite WordPress CSS Tricks
UPDATE October 2012: This article is almost five years old. It contains a bunch of stuff I’d never do anymore. Rather than delete it, I’m going to update each section with better information.
1. em strong
Perhaps more than I …
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Eliminate “Jumps” in Horizontal Centering By Forcing a Scroll Bar
You are likely aware of the page centering technique of adding auto left and right margins to an outer div:
#page-wrap {
margin: 0 auto;
}One of the shortcomings of this technique is that when used on websites with …
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Using CSS in HTML Emails: The Real Story
Should you be sending HTML emails at all?
This is surely a debated issue, but ultimately I say if you have a message you feel would benefit from a nicely designed email you should go for it. If you just …
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Links of Interest
If you’ve ever had to deal much with your `.htaccess` files, you know it’s like learning a whole new cryptic language onto itself. It’s high time someone made it easy. This online generator takes you through the options in …
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Avoid “CSS Jitter”
With more power, comes more responsibility.
One of the things that CSS allows you to control is the hover state of many objects, most notably, anchor (<a>) elements. Typically, the hover state is styled with color changes, or perhaps something …
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Utilizing the Underused (But Semantically Awesome) Definition List
Semantics! When we talk about semantics in HTML, we are talking about how HTML tags are used to describe the content. Good semantics means that the tags are being used well to describe the content. Bad semantics means that the …
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Quick Tip: Making a ‘Print This Page’ Button
Why bother?
Most people know how to print a web page, so including a “Print This Page” button on a website is often overkill. But there are some circumstances where it really makes sense. I just came across one of …
Links of Interest
- I wrote a guest post over on Tutorial Blog about taking control of image rollovers. In the tutorial, I show 5 different techniques for image rollovers ranging from relatively simple borders, to going from black and white to color,
Quick CSS Trick: How To Center an Object Exactly In The Center
I recently needed to make a placeholder page for a site. I wanted the logo image to be centered exactly in the middle of the screen, that is, both vertically and horizontally centered. Quickly, I thought I’d just give the …
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