Dive into the archives.
- The Art of CSS Positioning
CSS Positioning is one thing I used to struggle with, hopefully I can help you understand how positioning works and what it’s affected by, and iron out some of those kinks.
Read more at tutshelf.com
- 5 Quick and Easy Ways to Optimise Your Website
Performance is something you don’t often think about. You assume that if it loads quickly enough for you then everyone’s happy. Someone commented a while back saying that it takes quite long for my pages to load so I optimised it a tad and thought I’d share a few quick tips with you.
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- 10 Rare HTML Tags You Really Should Know
Here are ten of some of the most underused and misunderstood tags in HTML. While they might be less familiar, they’re still quite useful in certain situations.
Read more at net.tutsplus.com
- Keeping your content in order of priority with flexible CSS layouts
This article shows you how to use CSS floats to achieve any column layout, while keeping your most important content highest on the page.
The web development community is becoming more and more conscious of the fact that content is king, i.e. how your website looks is of little importance compared to the words you use [...]
- Image Rollover Borders That Do Not Change Layout
It’s a fact of CSS life that the ‘border’ of any block level element gets factored into it’s final box size for layout. That means that if you add a border on a hover to an element that didn’t already have a border of that exact size, you will cause a layout shift. It’s one [...]
- Tables: Friend or foe?
With the recent move towards semantic, clean, tableless, and beautiful code, there have been people who have gone overboard trying to perfect their code by leaving tables out completely. Many swear that they are bad, shouldn’t be used, and are just a sign of bad, outdated coding. This is not the case however, and tables [...]
- A very useful information about web design
When I read this short article about web design , I realized many things as a web designer myself.
Read more at csswizardry.com
- What is Sprite Image Slicing & How to use it?
Do you really understand them? The name might be a little misleading, because sprites aren’t little images like you might be picturing, a sprite is actually one big image. Have you ever seen the CSS technique where the “on” and “off” states of a button are contained within the same image and are activated by [...]
- CSS Recipes for WebKit
You can bring a new level of excitement to your websites and web applications using the advanced CSS features available in Safari and WebKit. WebKit is the layout engine that powers Safari on Mac OS X, Windows, and the iPhone OS.
Read more at developer.apple.com
- Approximate Conversion from Points(pt), Percent(%), Em(em) to Pixels(px)
Here’s a chart that converts points to pixels (and ems and %). It’s an approximation, which will depend on font, browser and OS, but it’s a good starting point.
Read more at reeddesign.co.uk
