New Screencast: Three State Menu

There is a new screencast up in the videos section: “Three State Menu”.
Using a variation of the CSS Sprites technique, we can create a “three state” menu using only one image per menu item. This reduces the number of requests on your server as well as elminates any “pauses” while moving to a different state [...]

Color Rendering Difference: Firefox vs. Safari

CSS-Tricks reader Norm writes in to ask me about a problem he is having with color on a new site he is designing:
I have a graphical question about my test site. The header and main page background are pulled from the same original graphic and in Firefox the header and body match up fairly well [...]

Links of Interest

CSS Rand

I was kind of confused when I first went to CSS Rand, because it just looked like some random nice website (not a gallery) then I figured it out… It’s a new kind of design gallery, where you just reload your page and it loads up a new page for you to look at. [...]

CSS Trick: Creating a Body-Border

Hicksdesign has been “fiddling” with their site design. The new design features what someone called in the comments a “Body Border”. It’s basically a stroke of color just inside the entire viewable area, all the way around, in the browser window. I thought it was a nice touch and a pretty spiffy little CSS trick [...]

CSS-Tricks Screencasts now on iTunes

It took a little while, but the CSS-Tricks Video Screencasts are now listed properly in the iTunes podcast directory.

Even cooler, you can just straight up search for “CSS” in the iTunes search area and it comes up as one of the ones right in the Podcasts section. Right next to “Let’s Make Love and Listen [...]