16 Web Safe Fonts To Use With CSS

A list of web safe fonts that you can use with CSS stylesheets. “Web Safe” fonts mean that they will be extremely common on most versions of Windows, Mac, Linux etc, so they will be viewable by more or less everyone. Along with each font is a preview image of what it looks like, and […]

Vertical Centering With CSS

There are a few different ways to vertically centre objects with CSS, but it can be difficult to choose the right one. I’ll show you all the best ways I’ve seen and also how to create a nice little centered website. Vertical centering with CSS isn’t an easy thing to do. There are many different […]

ie6fixer – Online Tool to Help Fix IE6 CSS

Welcome to the IE6 CSS Fixer: starter kit page. A tool specifically designed to ease the pain of the ie6 css debugger. If you want to read up on all the specifics, I advise you to check the articles on the ideology, the specific fixes and the scope of this tool…

The Power of HTML 5 and CSS 3

HTML 5 enables us to replace our multitude of divs with semantically meaningful structural elements. This semantic specificity not only improves the underlying quality and meaningfulness of our web pages, but also enables us to remove many of the class and id attributes that were previously required for targeting our CSS. In fact, CSS 3 […]

30 Essential CSS3 Resources

Web designers around the world are extremely excited about the power of CSS3 and the creative freedom it offers. With that in mind, we’ve rounded up 29 resources for you to learn more…

Fonts available for @font-face embedding

There can be license issues when using fonts with @font-face embedding. Here’s a useful list of fonts that specifically allow @font-face embedding…

What are webfonts?

Webfonts are font files embedded in websites using the @font-face rule. This technique was first available in Netscape Navigator 4 using Bitstream’s TrueDoc standard but was discontinued in Netscape Navigator 6. Microsoft developed the Embedded OpenType format .eot which is supported in Internet Explorer since version 4. In march 2008 Apple introduced Safari 3.1 which […]

3D Transforms Using Safari Webkit

WebKit on Mac OS X now has support for CSS 3D transforms, which allow you to position elements on the page in three-dimensional space using CSS. This is a natural extension of 2D transforms, which we described in an earlier blog post. 3D transforms have been supported on iPhone since 2.0, and now we’re please […]

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 […]

Maximum value of z-index

Z-index is used to determine the stacking order of absolutely positioned elements on a page. The CSS 2.1 spec says the value of z-index should be an integer. But it doesn’t define the any maximum values for it. So the actual max is often determined by what variable type the browser uses to store the […]

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