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The Difference Between ID and Class

ID’s and Classes are “hooks”
We need to ways to describe content in an HTML/XHTML document. The basic elements like <h1>, <p> and <ul> will often do the job, but our basic set of tags doesn’t cover every possible type of page element or layout choice. For this we need ID’s and Classes. For example <ul [...]

New Poll: What is your favorite CMS?

There is a new poll in the sidebar folks. This one is about Content Management Systems (CMS). There was a pretty good comment thread going a little while ago which sparked the idea for this poll.
I’ve always been a WordPress guy, and now with the ability to easily create different page templates for different [...]

Featured Review: Markup Factory

It would be fair to call Markup Factory a CMS (Content Management System), but that would be cutting it short. Markup Factory is much more that, but be scared or think for a moment that it’s “over your head”. It’s not. Markup Factory is one of the most full-featured, powerful, and easy to use web [...]

4th of July, Happy Birthday CSS-Tricks!

Today is the 232nd birthday of the United States and the 1st birthday of CSS-Tricks!
Been a great year! This blog and this community have helped me grow tremendously. I’m sure the next year will be even better and bring lots of good stuff to all.

New Screencast: Designing for Wordpress: Part One

WordPress is a hugely popular CMS for blogging. The blog section of CSS-Tricks is run on WordPress and I am very happy with it. By popular request, we are going to walk through designing for WordPress. In part one, we will be downloading and installing WordPress. Then we will install the “Starkers” theme by Elliot [...]