All About Floats

What is “Float”?
Float is a CSS positioning property. If you are familiar with print design, you can think of it like an image in a layout where the text wraps around it as necessary.

In web design, an image that is floated remains a part of the flow of a web page. That means that [...]

Poll Results: Which Next Gen Web Language?

Surprising results again, at least for me. “Don’t Care - As long as there isn’t a standards war” was actually in the lead for a little while, but was ultimately beat out by “XHMTL 2“. I cast my vote for No Standards War. I can adapt to anything and both the new formats have cool [...]

New Screencast: Rounded Corners

Here are FIVE different techniques you can use to create rounded corners for boxes on a website. There are always different ways to do things with CSS and rounded corners is a great example of that. Each of these five techniques has advantages and disadvantages. Knowing all of them so you can choose the perfect [...]

Interesting Reader Questions

Why a CMS?
I was recently criticized that my sites weren’t dynamic, and that no one would hire me because everyone wants a dynamic site. Well, the people I’d be targeting will know nothing about computers, thats why they need me to do the updates. I’ve become alot more versed in HTML\CSS now, and [...]

Links of Interest

Faux Absolute Positioning
Always interesting to see new techniques for layout.
With faux absolute positioning, we can align every item to a predefined position on the grid (as with absolute positioning) but items still affect the normal flow and—thanks to clear—have many of the same advantages as normal-flow elements. Every row in the grid will always have [...]