New Screencast: Columns of Equal Height

There is a new Screencast up in the new videos section.
Forcing multiple columns to be of equal height is one of those tricky things in web design. In this screencast I’ll show you a little trick around it. Instead of making the actual elements themselves equal height, we’ll use a background image to “fake” the [...]

Poll Results: The Responsibility of Mobile Web Design

This is has been an interesting poll! It’s almost a dead-heat. Through the course of it, it has actually gone back and forth for the lead a bit.

The winner by a nose: It is the MOBILE DEVICES job to make sure websites look and function well.
I have no doubt that the iPhone had some [...]

Designing the DZone Cross-Promotional Footer

DZone has recently rolled out a footer on their new “Zones” that I designed/coded for them. If you want to check it out live, you can see it at any of the zones like the CSS Zone. I thought I would share some of the thought process we went through and the code.
 
We looked at [...]

New Screencast: Forcing Scrollbars to Eliminate Centering Jumps

There is a new Screencast up in the new videos section. This one is about forcing the vertical scrollbar to eliminate the jump that you get on centered websites when going back and forth between pages that go beneath the “fold” and pages that don’t. I have written about this before, but this is one [...]

CSS-Tricks Sporting a Freshened Up Design

Did a little pre-spring-cleaning around here today

Lightened up the whole feel with the lighter textured background.
Added a link to the new videos section.
Make the subscribe section more obvious, and included the new video feed.

Really, it’s not that different. It’s just the background that makes it seem that way. My goal in the near future is [...]