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Automatic Numbering with CSS Counters

The CSS 2.1 spec makes inserting counters into content possible. This has always been possible with ordered lists, but this counter system is much more robust allowing you to insert counters on any type of …

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Your Go-To Hex Code Color

A few days ago I mused on Twitter:

When I need to pick a hex code color out of thin air, I always pick #ccc

Turns out, lots of folks have their own favorites! It’s little mini conversations like this …

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Modal Login Pages

Wikipedia has a succinct opening sentence about modal windows:

In user interface design, a modal window is a child window which requires the user to interact with it before they can return to operating the parent application, thus preventing

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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 …

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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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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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