Month: January 2010

How To Provide a Flexible Base for Text

Sizing text in pixels can cause many problems for web developers – especially in Internet Explorer. Author Dan Cederholm shows you the best practices for sizing fonts…
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10 Tips for Better Print Style Sheets

Print style sheets have been somewhat forgotten, and yet they remain important all the same. Many people print out articles to read while traveling or when they have no access to the Internet. Print style sheets have definite benefits. For example, reading on paper is less tiring on the eyes than reading on screen. Also, […]
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How to Make a CSS Sprite Powered Menu

Today’s tutorial will bring you through the process of building a slick menu using a single CSS sprite image. It’s a simple, but elegant solution for most websites. This was one of the design strategies that first helped me to start using smarter markup. For those of you just getting introduced to this technique today, […]
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IE Background RGB Bug

Using RGBa for progressive enhancement is getting more and more popular, which is awesome. Even nearly a year ago it was pretty much ready to rock. A great way to handle the progressive enhancement part is just to declare a fallback color before the RGBa value, so older browsers that don’t support it will get […]
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CSS3 box-shadow and Image Hover Effects

The CSS3 box-shadow property is a new way of adding drop shadow effects just by editing a style sheet. There’s no need to use Photoshop! Just open your style sheet in a text editor and away you go. Well, it’s almost as simple as that but not quite. There’s one caveat and that is browser […]
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The Mysterious Pseudo Class in CSS

Pseudo classes are those things with colons in them, you know, like :hover or :link. They let you control the CSS of stuff in different forms, states and places easily and efficiently, without taking up too much room. CSS3 is going to introduce a ton of new pseudo classes, and they’re going to make our […]
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CSS Transitions 101

Despite people’s expectation of change and movement on the screen, CSS and HTML have few controls that allow you to design interactivity, and those that exist are binary. A link is either one color or another. A text field is either one size or another. A photo is either transparent or opaque. No in-betweens from […]
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The Demise of CSS: Why Sass and Languages Like it Will Triumph

Sass is essentially a programming language for designers. It is extremely limited when compared with other languages, but it does a magnificent job of translating the core concepts of a programming language in a way that makes sense for styling a document…
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IE CSS3 pseudo selectors

e-css3.js allows Internet Explorer to identify CSS3 pseudo selectors and render any style rules defined with them. Simply include the script in your pages and start using these selectors in your style sheets and they’ll work in IE…
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CSS charts – Bar Charts Created with Pure CSS

For ultimate performance try these really fast bar charts that don’t need any plugins or rely heavily on JavaScript. Just pure and wholesome bar charts in CSS…
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