Styling Scrollable Areas

The scrollbars on browser windows are not styled by the website itself, or even generally by the browser. They come from the operating system itself.

The desire to customize the style of these scrollbars is strong. When you are starting …

Lifestream Website with Sweetcron

I wrote a tutorial for NETTUTS that has been published:

Sweetcron is “The Automated Lifestream Blog Software”. It is still in public beta, but is already a very nice blog software package. The beauty of Sweetcron is that new posts

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Body Border 2: Fade In with Gradient

A while back I showed you how to create a Body Border with CSS. Basically, we used four fixed position DIV’s to ensure all edges of the screen got a border and that the border would sit on top of …

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Test Your Color IQ

I would think designers would be better at this than most folks. You can test your color IQ by arranging blocks of color into hue order. There are 20 blocks per row and the hue change …

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Drag ‘n Drop Cards

In the next week or so we are launching refreshed site for one of our clients at Chatman Design. The client is Beacon Athletics, a company that sells equipment for athletic fields. The homepage is of course of particular importance. …

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A Business Card Microformats Site

All microformats are are standardized ID and Class names to wrap data in. Really. That’s it.

Say you are having a birthday party next week and you are posting about it on the web. That event has a name (Birthday …

Will Font Embedding Ever Become A Reality?

I have to admit I don’t have my head fully wrapped around this whole font-embedding controversy. At it’s root, it comes from us web designers being frustrated by the lack of options font options for our web pages. We want …

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IE 8 Proprietary CSS Attributes

IE 8 will have a number of proprietary CSS attributes. Not a big surprise, all the major browsers have them. It’s a way to have support for a) stuff that is truly proprietary to …

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Screencasting Setup

I get a fair number of questions about how I record the screencasts, so I thought I’d do a post on it that is both of interest now and that I can refer people to later. …

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From The Forums

Yesterday I “upgraded” the forums from phpBB 3.0.0 to 3.0.2. It was a bit of a debacle, probably mostly my fault, and it was down for a lot of the day. It’s back up and running now though! Apparently it …

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