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- Text Replacement Roundup: The Pros and Cons of SIFR, Cufon, Typeface.js, and FLIRThose of you who have explored rich typography solutions for web development should be very familiar with the different techniques floating around the Internet. Until majority of the population uses browsers that support CSS3, and until commercial fo...
- 5 Great CSS Techniques To Improve Your WebsiteCSS or Cascading Style Sheets is normally used to separate the style and layout of your HTML files from the actual content. However, few are aware of the added value that CSS can give to your website. Aside from the obvious ones like style standardiz...
- SlickMap CSS Lets You Create Beautiful Visual Site Maps EasilyBored with the same old uninspiring, list-based sitemaps? If you’re like me, most likely you will find that creating better looking sitemaps can be quite time consuming. Thus, we end up having to settle for text-based unordered lists that look...
- Object Oriented CSS“How do you scale CSS for millions of visitors or thousands of pages?” This is the question that Nicole Sullivan tried to answer in her presentation at Web Directions North in Denver. Entitled Object Oriented CSS (OOCSS), the concept has...
- Take Your CSS to the Desktop with Adobe AIR!Here is an article that you may find useful. Designers would find it surprising that to know that you can now take your HTML and CSS skills and use it to create desktop applications. This now very much possible for anyone who is willing to explore th...
- Building Good Websites with Fluid LayoutThose familiar with fluid / elastic layouts know that they can be a little more challenging to implement compared to fixed-width layouts. With the advent of wide-screen monitors, one of the biggest advantages of fluid-width layouts is the ability to...
- Those familiar with fluid / elastic layouts know that they can be a little more challenging to implement compared to fixed-width layouts. With the advent of wide-screen monitors, one of the biggest advantages of fluid-width layouts is the ability to...
- Code Better CSS And Preview Websites Across Different Browsers With Adobe BrowserLabAdobe BrowserLab is an online service that allows web professionals to test their websites on popular browsers and operating systems. Screenshots of actual browser renderings are generated in real time, with multiple viewing options to help pinpoint...
- Featured CSS Library: Better Web Readability ProjectThe Better Web Readability Project aims to promote screen-friendly and more readable fonts. The result is a CSS library that redefines, among others, the standard font size as well as leading (the amount of space between text). Other features of this...
- Non-Flash Peeling Page Effect Using jQuery & CSSThe Peeling Page is an effect is normally used by advertisers to show advertisements that would otherwise occupy space that is larger than what is available on a page. It is very slick, and is normally implemented in Flash. This script on Flashden co...
- Pure CSS + HTML Calendar 2009As self-proclaimed CSS experts, we must live, eat and breathe CSS - 25 hours a day. What better way to do this than by using a CSS + HTML calendar! Lovingly hand-crafted(tm) by Vladimir Carrer, the Grid Calendar is inspired by the Best of Calendar De...
- CSS Sticky FooterIf you are looking for a good pure CSS footer solution, look no further. CSS Sticky Footer works for over 50 Windows, Linux, and Mac-based browsers. Included in this list are the latest releases of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari, and I...
- Survey For People Who Make Websites 2008 Results OutBack in 2007, the staff of A List Apart and An Event Apart conducted a survey and presented 37 questions to 33,000 web professionals, providing “the first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced in the U.S...
- I previously blogged about CSS optimization and mentioned that one way to achieve optimization through the use of CSS optimizers. Styleneat is a similar tool that focuses on reformatting CSS Stylesheets, simply making it more readable. This tool can...
- Safari 4 Beta Web Browser ReleasedA beta version of Apple’s Safari 4 web browser is now available for public consumption by Macintosh and PC users alike. It boasts 150 features, 30 (yes, I counted) of which are marked as “NEW”. Among these new features, the most int...
- 6 Reasons Not To Use AJAX … And 6 Reasons Why You ShouldHaving to go through tons of sumbmissions for the CSS Vault Gallery over the past few years, I have noticed a definite increase in the amount of sites that use AJAX or some form of JavaScript. There seems to be a trend where even simple 5-page websit...
- 8 Of The Best Free CSS Tutorial VideosBelow is a collection of the best videos on CSS available on the web, hand-picked personally by me. Short Introductory Videos Using CSS by Joseph Lowery (03:43) This video explains what cascading style sheets (CSS) are. You learn the basics of CSS...
- 5 Ways To Optimize Your CSSRecently I have been working on a social networking site that was experiencing downtime due to the amount of stress its users were putting on the server. I spent a good amount of time looking for ways to improve the speed of the site, and one of this...
- Best CSS Zen Garden Theme EverSo there I was skimming through my usual list of websites on another boring day when this headline caught my eye: Best CSS zen garden file ever? My head spun furiously. Could it be possible? You be the judge! Let me warn you though, that a sense of h...
- Firescope Firefox Add-on for FirebugFans of the swiss army knife of web development Firebug will be happy to hear that this wonderful Firefox add-on has added another blade to its arsenal. With the help of the Firescope add-on, it can now provide CSS and HTML reference in a snap. Just...