Improve your web typography with baseline shift

The baseline is an invisible line onto which all type characters sit, although of course some characters (including ‘j’, ‘p’, ‘g’ and ‘y’) have descenders that hang below the baseline. Baseline shift involves moving characters up or down in relation to the baseline and using it effectively can make a huge difference to the professional […]

Rapid IE6 CSS Debugging

Practical methods for rapidly debugging problems with CSS in IE6…

CSS Drop Caps, the @font-face tag, sIFR and Cufon

Article about font rendering in html pages. Covering CSS “Drop Caps”, @font-face, sIFR and Cufon…

Crash Course: YUI Grids CSS

The Yahoo User Interface Library is an extensive set of JavaScript tools for developers. Often left unnoticed are a few other useful components of the library that will speed up your coding: some CSS libraries…

Override Inline Styles with CSS

Inline CSS styles can be difficult to remove from HTML markup that’s generated by a CMS. Here’s a trick to override the those pesky inline styles…

CSS Typography: Contrast Techniques, Tutorials and Best Practices

The main advantage of elegant CSS typography lies in its ability to be both attractive and improves the user experience. When chosen wisely and used carefully, it can be very effective to support the overall design. There are many outstanding examples of how we can do this…

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…

4 Uber Cool Css Techniques For Links

Links (anchors) are one of the most important elements on your document. Here’s a few nice tricks that don’t use hacks or javascript, just pure CSS…

Super Awesome Buttons with CSS3 and RGBA

CSS3 has the addition of RGBA, a color mode that adds alpha-blending to your favorite CSS properties. It can help streamline your CSS and makes scaling things like buttons very easy. Here’s an example to show you how…

Use CSS Borders for 3D Effects

How to use browser rendering instead of background images to achieve effects that reduce bandwidth, loading times and also increase maintainability. Learn how to add shadow and hover effects to buttons…

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