Five Questions with Collis Ta’eed

Collis Ta’eed is the kind of guy that every web designer with a little entrepreneurial spirit wants to be. He is a trend-setting designer who’s work is seen, used, and interacted with by millions of people a day on Envato’s

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#61: Basic Table Styling with CSS

Tables are great. They are perfectly suited for use on the web. That is, for displaying tabular data! In this screencast we’ll cover what that actually means, take a look at a table, the markup that creates it, quirks and …

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So Much Power, So Few Options

David Berlow commenting on font rendering abilities in the browser:

…it’s not treated beyond a fourth-grader’s crayoning abilities; no shadows, in-lines, outlines, fill variety, twisting, perspective, set on a bouncing line, or opaque over another object, much less in motion.

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What is Vertical Align?

CSS has a property called vertical align. It can be a bit confusing when you first learn about it, so I thought we could help explain what it is for and some use cases.

The basic usage is like …

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px – em – % – pt – keyword

When it comes to setting the size of type in CSS, you have lots of options. You can apply a “keyword”, like p { font-size: small; } or a numerical value. When using a value, you need to declare a …

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Looking for a Publisher

Hey everybody, I have some news. I’ve alluded to it a few times in the past, but now I’m officially saying it: I’m writing a book. I am not going to share too much detail about it now, but here …

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CSS is like…

I mused on Twitter recently:

CSS is like chess. You can learn the basics in a day and spend a lifetime mastering it.

I quickly thought it would be fun to collect other people’s ideas on what CSS is like. …

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#60: AJAX Refreshing RSS Content

In video #55 the end result was the FeedSmusher, which inserted content from external RSS feeds onto a page of our own. In this screencast, we will start there and use AJAX (with help from jQuery) to refresh that content …

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