How to: CSS Large Background

Since I posted the huge collection of Large Background Websites, I received several email requests on how to make a large background site with CSS. So, I thought it would be a good idea to share my techniques on designing large background websites. In this tutorial, I will provide various CSS examples on how you […]

How to Build a Simple Button with CSS Image Sprites

The button is one of the most common elements in the world of the web. In modern web design buttons are used not only on forms, but also as visual aids that draw attention to important elements of the page. Let’s take a look at building a simple button using CSS image sprites, starting right […]

Style a List with One Pixel

A one-pixel background image can be a pretty versatile thing. With repeat-x it can be a horizontal line, repeat-y makes a vertical line, and repeat makes it a fill color. Just as a little fun proof of concept, we can use that to create a depth-chart looking unordered list…

3 Easy and Fast CSS Techniques for Faux Image Cropping

This article is a summary of a 3 fast and easy CSS techniques you can use to display only a portion of an image in your content. All techniques explained here actually need only couple of lines of CSS. However, it is not cropping in a real sense of the word, we are not cutting […]

Aligning Images The Right Way Using CSS

Images are great for blog posts and chunks of text in general. Even if they’re just remotely relevant, they’ll add some space and make the content more accessible. You want to spice your texts up with images.You can position images however you like, of course, but a nice feature is to have the floating to […]

CSS Image Maps: A Beginner’s Guide

While they may not be used as often as they once were in the heyday of table based web design, image maps can still be quite useful in situations that call for it. Unfortunately, for beginners, achieving this with CSS alone, can be a difficult concept to grasp. In this tutorial, we’re not only going […]

Date Display Technique with Sprites

A great tutorial explaining how you can use a single image sprite and some clever CSS to replace HTML date fields with fancy images…

Display Text Blocks Over Image

How to display an absolutely positioned transparent caption over an image using just CSS and HTML…

Creating Thumbnails Using the CSS Clip Property

One of the least used properties in CSS is the Clip property. Clip is part of the visual effects module of CSS 2.1 and its job is to place a visible window on top of an object that is being clipped. It is useful for clipping images and creating thumbnails without having to create additional […]

CSS Borders – Apply unique borders to your images

Learn how to use CSS and a few graphics to dress up images. Make your images stand out with custom borders. Easy to apply with standard HTML and CSS…

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