Using a variation of the CSS Sprites technique, we can create a “three state” menu using only one image per menu item. This reduces the number of requests on your server as well as eliminates any “pauses” while moving to …
Before I get too far along in these screencasts, I thought I would introduce you a little to my working environment and explain the tools that I use. First off, I work on a Mac, so these tools are Mac …
I’ve been using IntenseDebate on CSS-Tricks for a little over a week now and a lot of thoughts on it have been stirring around in my head so I thought I’d try to organize them and share.
Forcing multiple columns to be of equal height is one of those tricky things in web design. In this screencast I’ll show you a little trick around it. Instead of making the actual elements themselves equal height, we’ll use a …
In this screencast I talk about how to force vertical scrollbars onto websites. Without doing this, pages with centered content can appear to “jump” to the left or right when going from a page that needs to vertically scroll to …
Quick little .htaccess trick today for ya’ll. This snippet will redirect any visitor who is not at at one of the provided IP addresses. You can use as many or as few as you would like. This is just a …
…I would say my biggest pet peeve related to the industry would be people focusing on technology instead of design, standards instead of users, and validation rather than innovation. Web standards and best practices are noble goals, but all too
I have no idea how long these “served” sites have been around, but I dig ’em. typographyserved, photographyserved, etc.
Intense Debate
Commenting is the best thing about blogs. Really makes a blog into a community rather …
Hi everyone, my name is Toby Pitman and Chris has asked me to write a post about a recent experiment that I posted up on the forum a little while ago. It all started when I was looking at the …
I was flattered when the guys from Smashing Magazine asked me if I’d like to write an article for them. I thought I would stick to my best subject and write about CSS at first. So I started a draft …
I finish up the design in part three of this series on coverting an Adobe Photoshop website mockup into an actual HTML/CSS website. This one focuses on the main content area. I create the the columns including the “quick links” …