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 …
This is a hot time in the world of browsers. Despite a rocky morning, Firefox 3 got over 8 million downloads when it was released. It’s up to over 24 million now. I bet many of you are amongst these …
Andy Rutledge’s article The Employable Web Designer is about how schools may not be properly preparing students with actually employable web skills:
…These students are worried that they’ll emerge from school without marketable
Surprising results again, at least for me. “Don’t Care – As long as there isn’t a standards war” was actually in the lead for a little while, but was ultimately beat out by “XHMTL 2“.
I …
…I was recently criticized that my sites weren’t dynamic, and that no one would hire me because everyone wants a dynamic site. Well, the people I’d be targeting will know nothing about computers, thats why they need
Always interesting to see new techniques for layout.
…With faux absolute positioning, we can align every item to a predefined position on the grid (as with absolute positioning) but items still affect the normal flow and—thanks
Many of us have many “homes” on the interwebs. Personally I use Twitter, Flickr, ScrnShots, and Facebook. These web services are cool enough to offer ways to interact with them and pull data out of them without even necessarily visiting …
It blows my mind that phpBB doesn’t come with RSS feeds for forums. The new v3 is incredibly nice in so many other ways, it seems like it would have been a trivial addition for such a talented dev team. …
This post was co-authored by Chris Coyier and Tim Wright of CSSKarma
A traditional calendar is a grid of numbered boxes on a page. As a web designer, you might go right for a table, and I wouldn’t fault you …
Abstraction is an important concept in any language. You can think of CSS as a way of abstracting the design away from the content of a site. This makes the code for both much easier to read, understand and maintain. …
Worried about putting your email address right out in the open for all the world’s spam bots to see? Enkoder will obscure it through javascript, yet be a perfectly useable link for everyone else. I tried to include mine …