Archive for April, 2008

I wanted to post a quick note to let folks know that the Weather Switcher that me and David Walsh whipped up a while ago has been updated to actually work again. Yahoo made a slight change to how they …

“If something’s hard to do, then it’s not worth doing.” – Homer Simpson…

Pull quotes are wonderful. They can really draw a readers attention and they are a great opportunity for cool typographic work. On a blog though, pull quotes are particularly difficult to “pull off” (get it?!).
This is because of RSS. …

I’m a junkie for web resources websites. I love browsing through them because I am always bound to find some example of something that sends my mind off on some tangent thinking about the possibilities. How can I extend it …

When you are developing a site, there is a heck of a lot of “refreshing” going on. You start to get a pretty good feel for what your browser is going to pick up on a single refresh, and what …

IE 6 actually had the best CSS support of any browser when it first came out… SEVEN YEARS AGO. The little bugs in it’s CSS support still haunt us to this day. I still get comments from people who roundly …

If NETTUTS lives up to the quality standard of PSDTUTS, this is going to be a great resource for web design and development tutorials!…

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As a matter of usability and aesthetics, it is a good thing to add some kind of visual feedback on web forms to indicate the currently active (or “focused“) field. Some browsers (Safari/Opera) have decided that …

Authentic Jobs is widely regarded as the premier job board for web designers and developers. It is run by Cameron Moll who himself is an incredible designer. You can help support CSS-Tricks, and help yourself by finding talented people to …

My friend Richard came to me with an interesting problem yesterday. He was using some API of some kind that was returning to him a big list of companies. Each company had text, and most (but not all) also …

I know I’ve been talking a lot about jQuery lately, but I promise I won’t stray too far off the CSS path. I would like to find out what everyone else’s favorite Javascript libraries, hence the new poll, “What is …