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A Quick and Dirty Way To Randomize an Image

Here is a little trick for randomizing banners on your website. A bit quick and dirty. It needs to be on a PHP page to work.
First off we need to setup a folder on your server where the pictures will go. We need to name the pictures in order, for example, mypicture1.jpg, mypicture2.jpg and mypicture3.jpg [...]

The All-Expandable Box

I wrote a guest tutorial over on Web Designer Wall detailing how to create an All-Expandable Box. This is a box that will expand both vertically and horizontally when text is resized in a browser, while maintaining the graphically unique corners of the box.

Utilizing the Underused (But Semantically Awesome) Definition List

A quick intro to semantics
When we talk about semantics in HTML, we are talking about how HTML tags are used to describe the content. Good semantics means that the tags are being used well to describe the content. Bad semantics means that the tags being used poorly describe the content. Good semantics doesn’t necessarily mean [...]

CSS Sprites: What They Are, Why They’re Cool, and How To Use Them

You’ve heard of them, but…
Do you really understand them? The name might be a little misleading, because sprites aren’t little images like you might be picturing, a sprite is actually one big image. Have you ever seen the CSS technique where the “on” and “off” states of a button are contained within the same image [...]

Guest Post: Alternative Style Links

The following post is a guest post, authored by Volkan Görgülü (email link) who has a passion for developing usable and accesible websites and writing well structured CSS and semantic (X)HTML.
You may know the classic link style very well. Blue with underline. There is an alternative way to achieve the same effect, that is a [...]