CSS
Cascading Style Sheets are used to define the presentation layer of websites. How CSS works is not always self-evident, so many of these articles explain various aspects of using CSS.
Trim your CSS
If you’re not careful when developing a website, you may end up with a bloated CSS file that is easy…
CSS Selectors explained
If you enjoyed Max Design’s Listutorial and Floatutorial, you’ll like the new Selectutorial, which is just as informative. This tutorial…
Font sizing trouble
It’s pretty well known that when specifying font sizes, it’s good to use a relative unit like em or percent,…
Margin collapsing explored
Floats and collapsing margins are two CSS concepts that can be very hard to get a grip on. Anyone who…
The difficulties of learning CSS
Today there was a post to the css-discuss mailing list from someone who needed to vent his frustration with CSS….
CSS Best Practices
Something that I haven’t really seen anywhere is a collection of best practices for writing CSS. There most probably will…
Really advanced CSS
There is much more to CSS than just styling borders and text. Unfortunately much of the really exciting stuff is…
CSS Vault
The CSS Vault, created by Paul Scrivens (Whitespace, 9rules), contains a gallery of good looking CSS based sites and a…
ReUSEIT winners announced
The winners of the ReUSEIT contest have been announced. Incidentally, the top three entries are the ones I liked best…
Flexible vs fixed
There’s been some talk about whether fixed or flexible width is best for web sites at Simon Willison’s Weblog and…
Things to read
I’ve come across some recent articles that are worth reading. A List Apart 162 contains three articles. In A Fairy,…
ReUSEIT entries on display
The deadline for the ReUSEIT competition was last week, on October 31. The list of submissions is up. 51 submissions…
More Sliding Doors
Last week, when A List Apart was relaunched, my favourite article was Doug Bowman’s Sliding Doors of CSS. This week’s…
Adobe Studio Redesigns
Adobe just launched a new version of their Adobe Studio site. Bill Merikallio of Scott Design helped Adobe convert the…
CSS Borders
Next time you’re styling a border with CSS, try something new. Instead of going from your editor of choice to…
A List Apart relaunch
A List Apart version 3.0 has been launched. Very nice to see ALA back in action. Issue 160 contains three…
Image tabs
At SimpleBits, Dan Cederholm has written a detailed explanation of how he implemented the navigation system for Fast Company by…
Float it
Floatutorial is an excellent guide to floating elements. Understanding how floats work and how they can be used can be…
Mid Pass Filter
Mid Pass Filter is a new CSS hack by Tantek Çelik. This hack is a filter that targets only version…
Soft dropshadow
I added another demo page to my Lab section. Soft dropshadow uses background images to create a dropshadow effect. The…
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