Posts in the CSS category

• CSS XHTML web templates

  30 October 2005 by Clive Walker

  We’re keen to advocate the use of CSS-based fully XHTML-compliant websites and it’s always good to see web templates for sale with similar properties.

• CSS 2.1 selectors explained

  25 October 2005 by Clive Walker

  Roger Johansson at 456 Berea Street has written a great series of articles on CSS 2.1 selectors.

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• Style an image with CSS

  18 September 2005 by Clive Walker

  Want to get that ‘real photo’ effect on your images? You know, the one that looks like a holiday snap with its white border.

• Tables or CSS for webpage layout - 2

  11 September 2005 by Clive Walker

  Our earlier post on this subject was dictated by some of the practicalities that relate to small business websites in the UK. Since that post, we have increased our use of CSS-based non-table website layouts.

• Preview websites with a CSS style switcher

  06 September 2005 by Clive Walker

  There are several methods available where websites allow their web visitors to change website styles by clicking on a link.

• CSS shorthand tips

  19 August 2005 by Clive Walker

  The increasing use of CSS for web design has meant that most websites have one (or several) stylesheets. Stylesheets are being used extensively, they can become quite large and it makes sense to make them as concise as possible. Shorthand CSS can make a big difference to the size of the stylesheet on larger websites and it can help to make any stylesheet easier to use.

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• Naming your CSS styles

  10 July 2005 by Clive Walker

  Stylesheets are more and more important for website styling and website layout. Gone are the days when only a couple of paragraph classes made up the .css file. It makes sense therefore to name CSS styles in a sensible way and to use a consistent naming convention.

• CSS ecommerce template

  27 June 2005 by Clive Walker

  CSS and XHTML compliant shopping cart systems are definitely the way forward. Using tables for layout design purposes can lead to complex nested table layouts which are not as accessible as they might be.

• No tables layout for CVW Web Templates

  13 June 2005 by Clive Walker

  Recently, we have been working on a redesign of CVW Web Templates. It’s one of our main websites and we wanted to give it a different “look” using a non-tables based layout.

• Rounded corners with CSS

  06 April 2005 by Clive Walker

  A recent project needed some rounded corners as part of some of our page elements and we thought about a few ways of doing this. The only problem was that our new website should use CSS without the use of tables for layout purposes….