2007 November - CSS-Tricks

Archive for November, 2007

Links of Interest

Matthew Mullenweg (of WordPress) clarifies his thoughts on a WordPress theme marketplace. I’m all for it!
Foohack has a nice post up on 5 problems with CSS (Not like common mistakes, but problems with the CSS spec itself).
Not to be a big baby about it, but my post on what beautiful HTML code looks like was [...]

Make a “Secret Message” with CSS Positioning and Transparency

Reader Brian left a comment recently with what I thought was a really cool idea:
I was thinking it might be neat to have a floating div with the random letters of half a secret message, with the other half of the letters in a background image or something so you’d have to scroll down to [...]

Internet Explorer Testing Done Right

Here is the deal: you gotta test in IE. You don’t have to use it, you don’t have to like it, but you have to test in it. But which version do you test in? A normal windows configuration only allows a single installation of Internet Explorer. So if you are the good little [...]

What is the Ideal Page Size for Quick Loading Pages?

First of all, what is “Page Size”?
Page size refers to the sum of all the elements it takes to render your page. That includes the HTML file, the CSS files, the images, the scripts, the multimedia…everything. Generally speaking, you should target 200k for your total Page Size. Also important is the total number of [...]

CSS Transparency Settings for All Browsers

Transparency is one of those weird things that is treated completely differently in all browsers. To cover all your bases, you need four separate CSS statements. Fortunately they don’t interfere with each other really, so using them all every time you wish to add transparency is no big hassle and worry-free. Here they are, and [...]