Posts in the CSS category

• CSS optimization tools

  19 August 2006 by Clive Walker

  A useful comparison of four CSS optimization tools and testing them on stylesheets from six popular websites.

• CSS layouts for forms

  25 July 2006 by Clive Walker

  We have been looking to replace a tables-based form layout with its CSS equivalent for some time. At last, we had a few spare hours and it was time to get rid of those pesky tables once and for all from a couple of websites. In the end, we found a solution but it’s not perfect and several other methods required more time to test than we had available. Here’s the story so far.

• Organise your CSS

  21 July 2006 by Clive Walker

  When you are working with style sheets, it’s all too easy to end up with a long list of rules – and it starts to become more and more difficult to find your way around when editing your CSS file. I’ve made a decision to become a bit better organised in future.

• Text align property causes CSS problems

  03 July 2006 by Clive Walker

  We were working on a fairly complex stylesheet recently where the text-align property caused some problems with Internet Explorer.

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• Check your colour contrast

  15 May 2006 by Clive Walker

  You’ve come up with a nice color scheme for your new website but does it have enough contrast? Does it satisfy W3C guidelines for colour contrast?

• CSS outline property

  11 May 2006 by Clive Walker

  I was reading through a CSS Cheat Sheet (as you do) and I came across the CSS2 outline property. I must admit, this was new to me and at first it seemed quite interesting.

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• Horsham Pub Guide 2006

  04 May 2006 by Clive Walker

  Over the last few days, we’ve been working on a new design for Horsham Pub Guide. For this project we decided to use a three column CSS stylesheet/layout.

• CSS web templates for inspiration?

  14 April 2006 by Clive Walker

  There are many websites that provide CSS web templates and they can offer some advantages when creating a website for a client.

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• Web standards in a nutshell

  08 April 2006 by Clive Walker

  Natalie Jost has published a neat diagram showing web standards in a nutshell. I'd never really thought about the separation of content from presentation from behaviour in a pictorial or diagrammatic form before – but this is a neat way of showing it!

• How to explain CSS

  27 March 2006 by Clive Walker

  I was contacted recently by someone who wanted to learn Dreamweaver by editing some simple layouts. Nothing wrong with that. I was asked to provide a simple ‘dummy’ layout as a practice aid but then we encountered a few problems.