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Create letterpress type using only CSS

The letterpress effect is one of the 2009 trends and is present in a lot of websites. It simply works because it adds a touch of “tactile” to the overall design and at the same time looks good with gradients, shadows, etc. Let’s see a quick way to add this effect to our sites using […]
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CSS Rehab – 3 Step Program To Getting Clean

A useful article that explains how to get away from using tables for layout. A simple 3 step plan to help cure your bad HTML and CSS habits…
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Degradable PNG Transparency for IE6

All (sane) web developers are eagerly awaiting the day Internet Explorer 6 dies. While there are a number of opinions in the community on when we should drop support and how we should encourage users to upgrade, the (sad) fact is that (as of this writing) roughly 25% of the world is still using it. […]
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Pure CSS Timeline

I wanted to build a CSS timeline for the “About” section of my site while using some clean and simple markup. I wanted to avoid using images as much as possible, so I spent a few minutes prototyping some options and came up with a solution using unordered lists. The result is a simple and […]
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Styling the Button Element with CSS Sliding Doors

For those not familiar, form buttons are notoriously difficult to customize because they render differently across browsers and platforms. A few methods for styling buttons are commonly used to make them appear dimensional, uniform, and consistent across browsers, however each has limitations. Here’s a solution using image sprites and a single block of CSS. It […]
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Mobilizing Your Site Using CSS

With a second style sheet and minor changes to a page’s HTML, many online stores can offer an excellent mobile shopping experience without creating a second web page or registering a mobile specific domain…
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SlickMap CSS – A Visual Sitemapping Tool for Web Developers

SlickMap CSS is a free simple stylesheet for displaying finished sitemaps directly from HTML unordered list navigation. It’s suitable for most web sites – accommodating up to three levels of page navigation and additional utility links – and can easily be customized to meet your own individual needs, branding, or style preferences…
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CSS Gradient Text Effect

Do you want to create fancy headings without rendering each heading with Photoshop? Here is a simple CSS trick to show you how to create gradient text effect with a PNG image (pure CSS, no Javascript or Flash). All you need is an empty tag in the heading and apply the background image overlay using […]
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A Tutorial All About CSS Floats

In web design, page elements with the CSS float property applied to them are just like the images in the print layout where the text flows around them. Floated elements remain a part of the flow of the web page. This is distinctly different than page elements that use absolute positioning. Absolutely positioned page elements […]
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