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.

CSS Tabs

While working on a project at my daytime job I needed to find a good way of using CSS to…

Posted on August 9, 2003

Link flood

There is now a page called Progressive enhancement using CSS at the css-discuss Wiki. Simon Willison has written a bit…

Posted on August 6, 2003

Image replacement techniques

Two new ways of using CSS to replace the text of a header (or any other element) with an image…

Posted on August 5, 2003

Complex CSS layout

At Position Is Everything, Holly Bergevin’s guest demo, Perched Upon a Lily Pad, shows how complex a CSS layout can…

Posted on August 3, 2003

Before: Tag Soup. After: CSS Clutter

In From Tag Soup to CSS Clutter, Martijn ten Napel talks about how browser specific hacks have moved from HTML…

Posted on August 3, 2003

Centering with CSS

Back in the old days, if you wanted to center your whole (fixed size) page both horizontally and vertically in…

Posted on July 30, 2003

More dropshadows

I was browsing the entries at the CSS Zen Garden and was inspired by an entry called Friendly Beaches, which…

Posted on July 28, 2003

Dropshadows

Hmm… looks like maybe I should start a “How to do it with CSS”-section on this site. The other day…

Posted on July 28, 2003

Rounded corners

I spent some time exploring different ways of creating a box with rounded corners. After checking out how other people…

Posted on July 22, 2003

More CSS designs

Yesterday i mentioned Hicksdesign as an example of a kind of layout that I personally am no big fan of,…

Posted on July 18, 2003

Cool things to do with CSS by the end of the decade

Seamus Leahy has made a demo of a menu bar that uses some nice CSS tricks. Too bad (but not…

Posted on July 18, 2003

CSS Golf

The Open Championship is the official site of the British Open golf competition that kicked off today. All coded in…

Posted on July 17, 2003

Old Skool Look, New Skool Code

Hicksdesign has a design that reminds me of what web sites often look like when a designer makes all the…

Posted on July 17, 2003

Summer cleaning

It’s been two weeks since my last entry, so I have plenty of stuff to write about now. John Gruber…

Posted on July 13, 2003

CSS 3 Selectors

In CSS 3 Selectors, Russel Dyer writes about CSS selectors, all the way from those included in CSS 1 to…

Posted on June 21, 2003

CSS Rollovers

Uberlink CSS Rollovers is a nice tutorial at PVII on how to use unordered lists to mark up navigation links,…

Posted on June 21, 2003

Quark goes XHTML+CSS

In a move which took me by surprise, Quark, Inc. launched a redesigned web site which is pretty much standards…

Posted on June 14, 2003

Catching Up

Nothing new here for a week. Been too swamped with work. Time to catch up a bit. Eric Meyer has…

Posted on June 11, 2003

CSS bookmarklets

Simon Willison recommends some bookmarklets that can be used to experiment with CSS and make your CSS development quicker and…

Posted on June 3, 2003

I Blame Microsoft

This is what Tim Bray writes about IE: The problem isn’t that CSS is too hard. The problem isn’t browser…

Posted on May 29, 2003

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