iPhone CSS Tips for Building iPhone Websites

With the rapid rise in mobile browsers, it has probably never been more important to ensure your sites can be handled on these platforms. By far one of the most popular such browsers is Mobile Safari on the iPhone – this is one of the easiest browsers to develop for: it runs on Webkit (meaning […]
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Multiple Backgrounds and CSS Gradients

CSS3 features are making their way into the various browsers and while many are holding off on implementing them, there are those who are venturing ahead and likely running into a world of interesting quirks across the various platforms. Two such features that I have been having the pleasure of enjoying are the use of […]
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Use CSS3 to Create a Dynamic Stack of Index Cards

Recently we hear a lot about CSS3 and its features and even though there are already some web sites out there that take advantage of some of the CSS3 features including DesignLovr we hardly ever see the full potential of what can be achieved with CSS3.Today we’re going to take a step into that direction […]
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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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