Category: Tutorials

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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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 […]
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CSS Font-Sizing: a Definitive Guide

Font sizing in CSS sounds as though it should be easy. Until you try it. Many developers use the force; they tinker with the font-size property until it looks right only to find it’s different in another browser. A little understanding can go a long way…
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Taming Advanced CSS Selectors

CSS is one of the most powerful tools that is available to web designers (if not the most powerful). With it we can completely transform the look of a website in just a couple of minutes, and without even having to touch the markup. But despite the fact that we are all well aware of […]
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Create a Letterpress Effect with CSS Text-Shadow

The letterpress effect is becoming hugely popular in web design, and with a couple of modern browsers now showing support for the text-shadow CSS3 property it’s now simple and easy to create the effect with pure CSS. No Photoshop trickery here…
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Sexy HTML List Tricks

Behold the ubiquitous list elements, “ul” and “ol”! These two sexy elements help millions of websites display lists of information in clean, semantic fashion. Without them, we’d be crawling around like filthy cavemen, eating dirt and howling at the moon. But these list elements aren’t just sexy, they are also extremely flexible, enabling us humble […]
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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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8 Good Examples of Using CSS z-index Property

If you are new in CSS then you may find it difficult to understand the CSS z-index property. In simple words z-index sets the stack order of specific elements. An element with greater stack order is always in front of another element with lower stack order. Here are some examples to explain how the z-index […]
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Making Hyperlink Icons with CSS

Hyperlinks can link to any number of different sources (pdfs, emails, external links, popups). By placing an icon beside each of these types it will take the surprise out of clicking on a hyperlink for the user. The plan is to do this in an intelligent manner so users don’t have to worry about placing […]
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5 CSS tricks with lists

Here are some creative ways to style unordered ul, ordered ol or definition dl lists…
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