Archives: (X)HTML and CSS
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December 2007
- Still More 24 Ways
- For the third year in a row, Drew McLellan is serving up another 24 helpings of web design/development goodness. I’ve mentioned the other two years previously, but the annual 24 Ways site is always great. So far, the day one Transparent PNG article, the trick... full entry
August 2007
- Blueprint CSS Framework
- Frameworks seem to be all the rage these days. Blueprint is one for CSS layouts that looks pretty good: customizable grid, default typography, a "reset" for default styling, and more.
September 2006
- Automated Image Layouts
- Well, I’m way behind the curve on posting this one, but I only just got around to finally reading the article. Back in the July issue of A List Apart, Harvey Kane shared an article about doing an Automatic Magazine Layout. Essentially, what it does... full entry
March 2006
- 40 Layouts, 1 Source
- HTML.it has a new Layout Gala feature. Simply put, it shows you how to achieve an amazing forty different CSS-based layouts all using the same base HTML source. Not only that, but the layouts have also been “tested successfully on Internet Explorer/win 5.0, 5.5, 6... full entry
January 2006
- Bubbly Tooltips
- This site has been using Nice Titles on this site for over two years now. Well, Alessandro over at web-graphics.com has put up an alternate way to do the same sort of thing that he titles Bubble Tooltips. The functionality is largely the same, but... full entry
December 2005
- CSS Star Rater
- You’ve no doubt seen these sort of “star raters” before at places like Amazon, Netflix, etc. When you’re rating an item and mouse over a series of stars, they highlight showing you the number of stars you currently have selected. Typically, these types of features... full entry
July 2005
- I Sashed My Site
- Via Martin “proxima centauri” Breton’s weblog, I came across the Jim Thompson’s journal, and what caught my eye was the post Sash Your Site, where you can put up a diagonal striped banner on the top right hand corner of your web page. I tried... full entry
April 2005
- More ‘Nifty Corners’
- Last month I posted about a technique to use degradable javascript and :CSS: to create rounded corners on a page. Well, the author of that article has updated the technique and now offers more Nifty Corners. The update offers a number of improvements: better browser... full entry
March 2005
- ‘Nifty Corners’ in CSS
- Web-graphics.com points us toward this very cool tutorial for /pro.html.it/">http://pro.html.it/.)
August 2004
- IE Whitespace Bug
- We all know that :IE: is a mediocre browser at best when it comes to web standards. Well, here’s yet another fix for a well-known whitespace bug that affects some link lists in IE. If you read the comments there are several additional fixes suggested.... full entry
July 2004
- Clickable Link Images in CSS
- Dan Cederholm has put up yet another great article on his SimpleBits site. This one covers clickable images for link backgrounds. This really isn’t a new trick for me—I use the same approach for the little graphics next to the external links on this site—but... full entry
- Slants in Navigation
- SimpleBits comes out with another very nice article. This one is about Bulletproof Slants used in things like horizontal navigation bars. There’s certainly nothing revolutionary about the ideas presented but it’s nice to have them summarized. Dan Cederholm also provides some links within the article... full entry
June 2004
- Curved Navigation
- Orderedlist (and what an appropriate site title that is, as you’ll see) has an article about using :HTML: lists to achieve a curved navigation. In the past, something like this would almost certainly have been done with an image map. Now you can get the... full entry
May 2004
- 3D CSS Box Model
- Yet another little tool for people getting into :CSS:. The 3D CSS box model shows how the box model works: I’ve seen umpteen diagrams showing CSS beginners how padding, border and margin work together, but not the order in which elements such as background colour... full entry
April 2004
- Starting with HTML & CSS
- There really can’t be enough introductory tutorials for constructing website using :HTML: and :CSS:. I don’t need them myself, but for anyone starting out it can be a very daunting obstacle. The :W3C: has a nice article on how to start using CSS. This short... full entry
March 2004
- Structured, Accessible Tables
- Web-graphics.com has a link today to a great article about creating structured tables in :XHTML: (and :HTML:). It talks not only about the <th> tag, which most people don’t use, but also the <tbody>, <thead>, and <tfoot> tags, which can be used for some really... full entry
- Tutorial: Page Layout with CSS
- Here’s a nice, relatively thorough, tutorial on creating a page layout using :CSS:. This is a nice single-stop style tutorial since it starts out with some introduction about what CSS is, how it works, and progresses from there. It’s geared toward use alongside their “Style... full entry
February 2004
- CSS ‘max-width’ in IE
- Anybody who’s anybody knows by now that :IE: simply isn’t up to snuff with current web standards. For most users it’s probably “good enough”, but for those of us designing pages and sites, we know that it’s an absolute nightmare to work with. One of... full entry
January 2004
- More Underutilized (X)HTML
- Yesterday’s entry about definition lists was, I think, a good one for all web developers but especially so for the slightly less experienced ones. So I thought I’d point out some other tags that can be very valuable but that don’t typically get the exposure... full entry
- (X)HTML Definition Lists
- The “definition list” (the <dl> tag and associates) is definitely one of the more underused, yet useful :HTML: tags around. How underused is it? Well, as far as I can remember, the first time I ever use a definition list was a few days ago... full entry
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