Posts in the CSS category

• Using Aardvark Firefox extension

  28 November 2006 by Clive Walker

  Following on from a previous post, another tool I have been using recently is the Aardvark Firefox extension or add-on.

  1 Comments

• Use more than one CSS class

  21 November 2006 by Clive Walker

  With CSS, it’s possible to use more than one class on any (X)HTML element. This is a useful technique that can help avoid CSS style sheet bloat. Here’s an example that I used recently.

  16 Comments

• How to X-ray your webpage

  13 November 2006 by Clive Walker

  Here's a nice extension (sorry, add-on) to Firefox that I find really useful. It's called X-Ray by Stuart Robertson

• CSS attribute selectors - clever styling

  06 November 2006 by Clive Walker

  I am reading CSS Mastery [the book] [the website] by Andy Budd at the moment. After reading the first chapters and a few other pages, I have already come across an interesting CSS usage that I should have been more aware of.

• CSS Tip - use a separate stylesheet for testing

  27 October 2006 by Clive Walker

  If you are using cascading style sheets (CSS) on a new website design, it’s probable that you will be testing new style sheet rules. For example, you may be creating a series of rules for a portfolio page perhaps in order to test different layouts. Or, you may be creating a new navigation menu that you want to test on specific pages.

• CSS example layouts

  24 October 2006 by Clive Walker

  Dynamic Drive has usually published JavaScript and 'dynamic HTML' script examples. In particular, it has some well-tested cross-browser examples of image slideshow effects.

• Books for CSS web designers - Part 2

  18 October 2006 by Clive Walker

  This is the second of a series of articles where I review books that are aimed at CSS web designers.I know. DOM Scripting by Jeremy Keith is a book about JavaScript and the rather mysterious world of the Document Object Model (DOM). Why is it a book for CSS designers? Hang on, I'll explain.

• Books for CSS web designers

  01 October 2006 by Clive Walker

  Over the last few weeks I have been reading two books, Bulletproof Web Design by Dan Cederholm and DOM Scripting by Jeremy Keith. At first glance, they are completely different subjects but if you are someone who regularly works with cascading style sheets (CSS), I think you will find both very useful (perhaps for different reasons). In the first article of a series, I review the Bulletproof approach…

• A to Z of Cascading Style Sheets

  21 September 2006 by Clive Walker

  Partly inspired by a recent article on A List Apart, here’s my unofficial A to Z of CSS.

  2 Comments

• Beginning CSS Web Development

  23 August 2006 by Clive Walker

  There’s a new CSS book published in a few weeks. Beginning CSS Web Development is written by Simon Collison.