Entries tagged with: CSS
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Right Aligned CSS Background Images / IE Word Wrap Bug
I recently built a design that called for various navigation elements to have bullets aligned to the right of each link. It seemed simple enough but turned out to be harder than I'd imagined. I started with the following CSS:...
Posted on September 8, 2009 10:51 AM
Basic CSS Forms with Row Highlighting
A friend of mine recently asked me about creating forms with XHTML/CSS and since I've been recycling some simple form code for a while now I thought I'd share it. I've also seen a lot of sites that are standards-compliant...
Posted on June 18, 2009 4:12 PM
CSS Naked Day
April 5th is the second annual CSS Naked Day. The idea behind it is to strip all the CSS from your site/blog to show the standards based content underneath. It's to promote web standards and help developers remember that it's...
Posted on April 5, 2007 12:01 AM
Random Bizarre Firefox / CSS / Flash Bug
I just spent the last several days troubleshooting this bug and since I couldn't find any information anywhere on the web for this obscure problem, I'm posting it here. For a new site I'm building I have randomly loading promo...
Posted on March 16, 2007 10:17 AM
Quick Tip: Layering Flash over Flash
Recently I was asked to help on a project which involved a lot of Flash work. During one of the meetings someone suggested that we absolutely position a small Flash file over top of a larger background Flash file. Since...
Posted on February 25, 2007 10:21 PM
Which Browsers to Care About
As each year goes by the amount of browser/platform combinations continues to grow and grow. One of the main challenges we face as developers is trying to build sites that look great in all of the new browsers but don't...
Posted on October 15, 2006 6:07 PM
BrowserCam - Because QA is important
What does your website look like in Safari 1.3? How about the Firefox 2.0b1 beta? The Konqueror browser on a Linux box? You really have no idea do you? Most developers test their pages on the one or two browsers...
Posted on October 7, 2006 1:33 PM
Quick Tip: Applying multiple classes
This is quick and simple tip but I know a bunch of people who weren't aware of it so I felt it warranted a post. We all know that CSS classes are a great way of applying a specific style...
Posted on September 6, 2006 10:51 PM
Critical Thinking Exercise - Answers
A few days ago I posted a "critical thinking exercise" which was designed to help you learn the type of things you should be looking for when you do a code review....
Posted on June 22, 2006 8:49 AM
An Exercise in Critical Thinking
One of the biggest challenges in this field is often finding the time to do a proper QA process on projects before they launch. Tight deadlines and last-minute changes often eradicate much of the time that should be allocated to...
Posted on June 18, 2006 12:11 AM
Internet Explorer 7: Beta 2 Preview
As Dave Shea from mezzoblue points out, IE7 Beta 2 is available and while there still may be some minor tweaks and bug fixes before the final release, the new rendering engine is finalized. The good news is that Microsoft...
Posted on March 30, 2006 10:14 PM
Guidelines for coding HTML emails
It seems like about everyone I know has asked me questions this week related to best practices for building HTML emails and newsletters. It can be a tricky business so I've decided to assemble a few basic rules to follow...
Posted on March 2, 2006 11:00 PM
Fun with style sheet switching
One of the great things about building your websites using web standards is that the content is completely separated from the design. Since the design is controlled entirely through CSS it becomes simple to change. Add a style sheet switcher...
Posted on December 12, 2005 11:39 PM
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