New Screencast: Tools of the Trade

I have a new screencast (#6) up in the videos section:
Before I get too far along in these screencasts, I thought I would introduce you a little to my working enviornment and explain the tools that I use. First off, I work on a Mac, so these tools are Mac software. This isn’t an endorsement [...]

Techniques for Fighting Image Theft

1. Redirect links from external sites to your “DON’T STEAL” graphic
There are numerous tutorials on how to do this around the web, but I most recently read about it on David Airey’s article “How to deter thieves from stealing your images and server bandwidth”. The technique is an addition to your .htaccess file in the [...]

New Poll: What Kind of CSS Reset Do You Use?

Different browsers have different default settings for page elements. In an effort to keep web pages looking as consistent as possible between browsers, many web designers use what is commonly referred to as a CSS reset to wipe away these default settings and start fresh.
Margin and padding are the most common things to reset as [...]

Links of Interest

C.S.I in XHTML and CSS coding.

Dor Dan has a nice article on keeping both your HTML and CSS clean with a consistent system of Comments, Spacing, and Indents. Now that’s some beautiful code.
 
Detailed Look at Stacking in CSS

Tim Kadlec takes an in-depth look at the “stacking order” of the z-index parameter in CSS. Z-index is, [...]

Using Weather Data to Change Your Website’s Appearance through PHP and CSS

This article is co-authored by David Walsh
The David Walsh Blog :: PHP, CSS, MooTools, and Everything Else
UPDATE: This post was updated on April 30th, 2008 to account for a minor change in how Yahoo! was serving up data UPDATED DOWNLOAD
Inspiration for this idea came from a comment by Andreas.
Using a little magic and trickery [...]