Posts in the Quick Tips category

• CSS Tip: Using max-width for flexible images

  23 December 2010 by Clive Walker

  When you are working with fluid or elastic website layouts or perhaps using CSS Media Queries, it's essential that the designs cope with large images.

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• Box-shadow for Internet Explorer

  06 November 2010 by Clive Walker

  Box-shadow is a great CSS3 property that allows you to add a subtle (or not) shadow on an element.

• CSS Tip: Placing text on top of an image

  12 August 2009 by Clive Walker

  The other day, I needed to add a strap line or caption on top of an image. Yes, I can do this in an image editor like Photoshop or Fireworks but I wanted to compare an alternative method using CSS. The CSS method also has the advantage that the text will be read by search engines. Anyway, here's how I chose to to do it.

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• 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.