Posts in the CSS category

• Fluid elasticity

  21 July 2008 by Clive Walker

  For the last few weeks, I have been working on a fluid elastic layout for a previously fixed width website [see also Going Fluid Elastic]. At the same time, the site has been given a bit of a makeover.

• Learning about HTML, CSS and web standards

  08 July 2008 by Clive Walker

  The web has a huge number of articles, tutorials, and other resources to help anyone find out about the ‘nuts and bolts’ of building websites. However, good in-depth learning resources are sometimes difficult to find. Here’s three that I think are great reference points for anyone to use.

• Going fluid elastic

  29 June 2008 by Clive Walker

  I know that I tend to stick with fixed width layouts for many website projects and I prefer this type of layout over fluid layouts. See Fixed or fluid layouts. I know, I know. Fluid layouts use up the screen space better. They resize to fit the browser window. And all that.

• Great method for styling images with CSS

  28 May 2008 by Clive Walker

  Web Designer Wall has published a clever CSS decorative gallery technique for styling images with CSS.

• CSS: Display like a table

  23 May 2008 by Clive Walker

  With the advent of CSS-based layouts over the last few years, it might be assumed that the word “table" should be banished from your web design dictionary (apart from those really useful data tables that we should all use for related data). However….

• CSS Tip: Expand your font horizons

  01 May 2008 by Clive Walker

  It is sometimes easy to get into the habit of always using the same font declaration in your style sheet for every website you do. Even though the number of fonts that are common to both Mac and Windows systems is pretty small, there are a few variations worth trying.

• YAML CSS framework

  25 April 2008 by Clive Walker

  These days, there are quite a few CSS frameworks popping up all over the place but YAML has an interesting and attractive CSS layout builder tool as part of its arsenal. This works really well and, in conjunction with the core YAML CSS framework, it allows you to build fixed and fluid CSS layouts with a few clicks of your mouse.

• Wild Blueberry

  02 April 2008 by Clive Walker

  Wild Blueberry provides management accountancy and business planning services for businesses in Sussex. For this particular website, I used a slightly different starting point for the website layout and, as a result, the final version includes some different design aspects to my 'usual'. Let me explain.

• Recent CSS reading

  28 February 2008 by Clive Walker

  Cameron Moll has started what promises to be an interesting and clever series of articles called The Highly Extensible CSS Interface.

• CSS menu trick

  27 January 2008 by Clive Walker

  Changing the hover state of a link in response to a mouseover event is a common CSS technique.