Best Practices to optimize CSS – an academic exercise

Many of the tips in this article are tiny micro-optimizations, one thing to keep in mind when going overboard with optimizing. You should never sacrifice maintainability or extensibility for optimization experiments. Consider this article more like an academic exercise rather than real-life optimization tips. It should also be noted that if you need to speed […]

BlueTrip CSS Framework

A full featured and beautiful CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) framework which combined the best of Blueprint, Tripoli (hence the name), Hartija’s print stylesheet, 960.gs’s simplicity, and Elements’ icons, and has now found a life of its own…

Understanding CSS Absolute Positioning and Layering

It is possible for you to place an HTML element at a particular spot on your web page, independent of what is already there. In this article there’s an in-depth treatment of that topic. You need basic knowledge in CSS and HTML (XHTML) in order to understand this article…

Weaving a better Web page with CSS frameworks

A Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) framework expedites and simplifies the design and development of Web pages. Moreover, a CSS framework produces more standardized results in all browsers. Here’s a look at two CSS frameworks, each with a unique philosophy: Blueprint and the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Grid. Both frameworks are free to use and permute, […]

20+ CSS Data Visualization Techniques

In this article you will find more than 20 unique CSS Data Visualization Techniques. Learn how to create charts, graphs and represent data visually using CSS…

A Primer on the CSS Font Shorthand Property

Font declarations and related properties in CSS are fairly straightforward to write in longhand. But there is a shorthand CSS property for declaring certain typographical properties that is well-supported across all common browsers, but a little quirky to work with. In this article I’ll describe how the css font shorthand property is used, how it […]

5 Handy tips to fix space beneath floated elements

When two elements are floated in a div, chances are parent element no longer contains it because the float is removed from the flow. Here you’ll find five quick tips to fix this problem…

35 CSS Lifesavers For Efficient Web Design

CSS design is not easy. We need to find workarounds for cross browser inconsistencies. We also need to understand difficult CSS concepts and quite counterintuitive CSS solutions. However, there are effective and useful CSS tools and Smashing Magazine reviewed many of them in previous posts. Now it’s time to present you with some fresh tools […]

PX to EM conversion made simple

PXtoEM.com is pixels to em conversion made simple. Choose your body font size in pixels (px) and out comes a complete pixel (px) to em conversion table, making elastic web design with CSS a snap. The once daunting challenge of converting pixels (px) to the elusive em has now been reduced to a booger eating […]

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