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Sprite Cow – Generate CSS for sprite sheets

Sprite Cow is an online tool that helps you get the background-position, width and height of sprites within a spritesheet as a nice bit of copyable css…
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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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Create a Button with Hover and Active States using CSS Sprites

Too many designers neglect the click state (active: property in CSS) in web design, either because they’re unaware of it, underestimate the importance of it or are plain lazy. It’s a simple effect that improves usability by giving the user some feedback as to what they’ve clicked on but can also add depth to a […]
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SpriteMe – Tool to Generate CSS Sprites

Background images make pages look good, but also make them slower. Each background image is an extra HTTP request. There’s a fix: combine background images into a CSS sprite. But creating sprites is hard, requiring arcane knowledge and lots of trial and error. SpriteMe removes the hassles with the click of a button…
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Active State in Navigation – CSS Navigation Tutorial

I am sure you have been on a website where the navigation has an “active” state, basically showing you which page you are currently on. It’s a great way to let visitors know exactly where they are on a site. This tutorial shows you how to use a CSS sprite to create a navigation menu […]
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CSS Sprit.es a Free Online Tool to Create Sprites

CSS Sprit.es is an online tool to help web designers and web developers to build CSS Sprites. If you don't know what is a CSS sprites and are a web designer/developer please, do Internet a favor and consult this great article on A List Apart on the subject.
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CSS Sprites with Inline Images

CSS Sprites is a technique where you use a background-image, a set width and height, and adjust the background-position to display only the portion you need to show. This way you can use a single image and display lots of different graphics with it, saving server requests and speeding up page load times.The “sprite” is […]
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Building Faster Websites with CSS Sprites

Using CSS sprites allows you to greatly increase your websites speed by using single image files that contain multiple graphics. In other words, when you have many images to be used, instead of having them as different individual files, we combine them into one. Therefore, the client computer only downloads one image for all the […]
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