I really like one of the typographic tricks Mark Boulton makes in his “Better Typography” presentation. (Slideshow of the presentation here. Around slide #109) He suggests “using the best ampersand available”. This just means that on some typefaces, the …
This is one is almost entirely false. PNGs of any flavor will display in Internet Explorer, even back to some pretty old versions. The …
Web design studio The Design Canopy (update October 2012: Design Canopy link is dead) is a beautifully designed site that makes use of a variety of beautiful web typography techniques. Here are some screen shots from different areas of the …
Alen Grakalic of CSS Globe has released Tablecloth, a really nice table framework.
The Glass Wall
I know I’m almost 6 years late on this one, but I just read “The Glass Wall” for …
Here is a little trick for randomizing banners on your website. A bit quick and dirty. It needs to be on a PHP page to work.
First off we need to setup a folder on your server where the pictures …
Read Kevin writes in:
…A css file will have something like…
background:url(../images/topheader.htm) top left no-repeat;
…where topheader.htm is just an empty file. In this same directory is a jpg named topheader.jpg. How does this work? Why is it done this
Reader Blake writes in:
…What I’m trying to do is a fairly standard 3 section layout. The header needs to be 75 pixels in height and 100% in width. Below that, I need a sidebar section 160px wide and a
Let’s say you want to change the color of your links on just your contact page to red. They are blue on every other page, but it just makes sense for them to be red on your contact page (for …
There was lots of great feedback from the rough draft model of the CSS Skill Levels. I have tried to take everyones ideas into account and rework things. The biggest consensus was that there needs to be another level …
Wiep.net has a really interesting and comprehensive look at how the value of links are determined. Of course there is now way to really know, so each factor is valued by a “wisdom of the crowds” approach. …
The best part about CSS is that it allows web developers to achieve more with less. What exactly does that mean? Well, for a start, CSS allows developers to:
