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March 24, 2008

960 Grind System

A new css framework has hit the web and it looks really, really, well done. Like a few others, 960 is based on grids and prototyping your designs quickly and easily.

March 18, 2008

Compound Microformats

A great demo page showing off Compound Microformats, if your wondering how to implement Microformats into your site, this is a good starting place.

March 4, 2008

CSS Reset Updated

Eric Meyer has updated his reset style sheet, tweaking a few things and removing others.
“t really is the beginning of a baseline style sheet. (Or can be.) Things like boldfacing and italics are some of the most obvious textual effects readers will see, and to have reset styles that treat them inconsistently across browsers doesn’t [...]

February 13, 2008

Streamline your forms with widgets

“Advanced forms” are rarely that. A more fitting name would be “Overwhelming and confusing forms”. But with Jason Long’s clever approach to streamlining a screen full of checkboxes, you might just be able to once again look fondly on your forms.

January 31, 2008

Stay on :target

A lot of us know all the ins and outs of CSS2 and HTML4, and reading the same types of how-tos can get boring. What better way to fight that boredom than forget about the current practicality of CSS3 techniques and learn them anyway? Brian Suda does just that with this article on the immensely [...]

January 11, 2008

The ACID3 Test

Its out, test your browsers to see how compliant they will be against CSS3.

January 1, 2008

Diagnostic Styling

A great tip to diagnose problems on your website using CSS, very intuitive, but what else do you expect from Eric Meyer!

December 18, 2007

Maximum and Minimum Height and Width in Internet Explorer

The bane of many web developers is the lack of support for max/min heights and widths in IE.  Well, there is finally a way to utilize this great CSS attribute.
“Behold the seventh wonder of the virtual world: max/min-height and max/min-width properties are possible in Internet Explorer! Indeed, by taking advantage of IE’s proprietary CSS attribute, [...]

December 13, 2007

CSS for Accessibility

24 Ways has some CSS tips to make your site accessible to everyone:
“CSS is magical stuff. In the right hands, it can transform the plainest of (well-structured) documents into a visual feast. But it’s not all fur coat and nae knickers (as my granny used to say). Here are some simple ways you can use [...]

December 2, 2007

CSS Oval buttons

These buttons use the sliding doors technique of CSS, plus two sliced background images with “on” and “off” states, to create flexible oval shaped CSS buttons, similar to CSS Square Buttons. Each button can accommodate text of variable widths and supports a hover effect when the mouse rolls over it. The only limitation is the [...]