Volkan Görgülü

The following is a Guest Post written by Volkan Görgülü. Thanks Volkan!

The picture used in this article, The Solitude of the Fisherman, is from Daniel Cheong. I have come across with this picture in an article at Smashing Magazine.

Generally when we put borders around our images, as you can see in the example below, they make the image look more appealing. They make the image stand out from the other content on the page.… Read article

You may know the classic link style very well. Blue with an underline. There is an alternative way to achieve the same effect, that is a bit nicer.

Here is the code:

a {
  text-decoration: none;
  background: url(link-line.gif) repeat-x 0 100%;
  padding-bottom: 1px;
}

Giving the background position of x at 0 and y at 100% places the background image at the bottom of the text and by setting the padding-bottom to 1px, we make the distance between the text … Read article