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Once there was a typeface called Helvetica. It was extremely popular. Later came a software company called Microsoft. Can you tell the difference between the original and the rip-off in these ten examples?

One of the many good suggestions I got for hosting these video files was to use the Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service). I had heard about this before, but didn’t know much about it. Nothing like trial by fire to …

Alright I’m just gonna publish the link and see how it goes…
CSS-Tricks Video Screencasts

DISCLAIMER: These are my very first screencasts ever, so the quality is sort of rough, folks. I am going to keep at it though …

If you are familiar with the concepts of “floats”, you know that if you float a page element to the left, that the next page element will move up next to that element on the right, if possible. But have …

That’s just a little teaser graphic there for ya’ll =)

Here is the scoop. I’m all set up to start doing some Video Screencasts for CSS-Tricks. I actually already sort of shot the first one. I am on a Mac, …

Spoon Graphics has an awesome roundup of funky ampersands. I mentioned in the comments a cool thing to “use the best ampersand available” is to wrap the ampersands in an unique …

Reader Erik left a comment linking to an amazing example of what can be done with the CSS3 selection color technique I just posted about. You have to see it to believe it.

One of those cool CSS3 declarations that you can use today is ::selection, which overrides your browser-level or system-level text highlight color with a color of your choosing. At the time of this writing, only Safari and Firefox are …

I was interviewed by mao at snap2objects. Check it out if you want to hear me ramble on about CSS =)…

Most web browsers make resizing text an easy thing to do*, but not all web browsers will resize images along with that text**. Good web designers know this and go to great lengths to make sure their web layouts don’t …

John Resig has an interesting writeup of how different browsers deal with sub-pixel problems. By sub pixel problems he is referring to the rounding of pixels when widths are defined with percentages and the …