Posts in the CSS category

• Wrap text with CSS Text Wrapper

  20 December 2007 by Clive Walker

  CSS Text Wrapper is a new tool that helps you create the CSS required to wrap text into unusual shapes.

• CSS attribute selectors

  14 November 2007 by Clive Walker

  There are some relatively under-used CSS techniques and one of these is the use of attribute selectors.

• Creating specific page styles with CSS

  31 October 2007 by Clive Walker

  Yesterday, I was asked if it was possible to create individual page styles using CSS. In this case, the same style sheet would be used but there would be a specific style rule for page x compared with page y. For example, you may want to have a different background image for your home page compared to your ‘product’ pages. Perhaps the home page has a ‘blue theme’ and the product pages are ‘color coded’ with a different colour…

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• CSS sprite generator

  28 September 2007 by Clive Walker

  CSS background image position properties allow the use of one 'master' image that contains multiple component images instead of separate images. The technique is known as CSS Sprites.

• How to optimise your CSS code

  14 September 2007 by Clive Walker

  Code Beautifier is a useful website that optimises and formats CSS files. The website will take your style sheet file, remove whitespace, clean up style rules by removing unnecessary characters.

• Wireframing with CSS

  28 August 2007 by Clive Walker

  Wireframe prototyping is a useful method for illustrating the elements that comprise a website layout before the actual design is created. A website wireframe can provide a basis for discussion with clients and enable the web developer to confirm ideas about the placement of page elements, such as navigation, functionality, and content. It can be very useful as a starting point for your thinking process.

• Find unused CSS selectors with a Firefox add-on

  02 August 2007 by Clive Walker

  If you work on several websites at once (it sometime seems like I am doing this all the time) and/or if you inherit a website’s CSS development, it can be tricky to keep a track of your style sheet selectors. Which selectors are used and which have become redundant?

• Quick link - pseudo elements in CSS

  10 July 2007 by Clive Walker

  Enhance your website text with pseudo element CSS selectors. Jonathan Snook has written a short article about pseudo elements that explains all.

• What's happening with CSS3?

  28 June 2007 by Clive Walker

  CSS3.info provides a wealth of information about CSS3 which is the next specification for cascading style sheets (CSS).

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• Web design and CSS books

  11 June 2007 by Clive Walker

  I am reading two excellent books at the moment. Firstly, The Principles of Beautiful Web Design by Jason Beaird and secondly The Art and Science of CSS by Cameron Adams, Jina Bolton et al. I have only completed a few chapters so far but both books have nice layouts and seem easy to read.