Posts in the CSS category

• Understanding HTML and CSS code is a good thing

  15 December 2008 by Clive Walker

  When I was doing some Dreamweaver tuition recently, I was asked about implementing a CSS dropdown menu. I recommended this excellent CSS Menu from Craig Erskine which is itself a derivation of the original Suckerfish Dropdown menus on A list Apart.

• Add your own styles to websites

  03 December 2008 by Clive Walker

  Jon Hicks has written a great article at 24Ways entitled User Styling. The article describes how you can write your own CSS styles for websites.

• Review of Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong

  19 November 2008 by Clive Walker

  Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong! is a new book by Rachel Andrew and Kevin Yank and published by Sitepoint. The book’s title is a bit of a marketing ploy and it’s not entirely accurate in my opinion. That aside, the book describes some new CSS layout methods, in particular the use of display:table and associated properties like display:table-cell, that will be supported by all major browsers when Internet Explorer 8 is released. The book argues that the release of IE8 means that we should be using these methods now [‘our part of the bargain’] in order to push the envelope for CSS layout and stop ‘holding back the Web’. Read on for my review.

• Everything you know about CSS is wrong?

  17 November 2008 by Clive Walker

  Everything You Know about CSS is Wrong! The title of this new book from Sitepoint seems to be deliberately provocative.

• Recent CSS reading and some advanced CSS techniques

  06 November 2008 by Clive Walker

  For a Beautiful Web is a promo for Andy Clarke and his web design and development training courses [CSS included] and the blog has highlighted some new [in terms of usage] CSS techniques in two articles that I found really interesting.

• Learning about CSS

  05 October 2008 by Clive Walker

  I was doing some Dreamweaver tuition the other day and my student asked if I could recommend some simple online tutorials or learning resources for CSS.

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• Smarter CSS using an adjacent selector

  01 October 2008 by Clive Walker

  Wouldn’t it be great if you could add styles to your web page by specifying a style for a particular element on the basis of its proximity to another element? Well, in fact, you can do this using the adjacent-sibling selector! The adjacent sibling selector is perhaps not as widely used as it might be but it’s well worth considering for use in your style sheet.

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• Conditional CSS targets any browser you like

  26 September 2008 by Clive Walker

  As someone who is working with CSS all the time, you may have come across problems with different browsers [ahem]. Many of these differences are related to Internet Explorer and I think it’s fair to say that IE conditional comments are probably the best solution for these IE-specific differences. Now, Conditional-CSS extends that approach to other browsers by parsing your CSS file(s) on the server with some clever coding.

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• Tiled backgrounds made easy

  07 August 2008 by Clive Walker

  What do you do when you want to create a tiled background image for your website? Perhaps you open your copy of Photoshop or Fireworks, create a texture, add an image outline, export the image, and re-edit as required.

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• Convert a PSD file into a CSS/HTML layout

  30 July 2008 by Clive Walker

  I have been reading a series of great articles from CSS How To where they demonstrate the process of converting a Photoshop file into a CSS layout.