Posts Tagged ‘CSS’
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Start Using CSS3 Today: Techniques and Tutorials
- June 17th, 2010
- 85 Comments
We have been publishing articles about CSS3 for a while now, and we keep receiving angry e-mails from some developers who complain that it doesn’t make sense to use CSS3 today. Yes, Internet Explorer doesn’t support most CSS3 properties. And yes, CSS3 vendor prefixes are bad for maintainability (and this ...
Read more...50 New Useful CSS Techniques, Tools and Tutorials
- June 10th, 2010
- 67 Comments
Over the last years we’ve got a pretty good understanding of what CSS does, how it works and how we can use it for our layouts, typography and visual presentation of the content. However, there are still some attributes that are not so well-known; also, CSS3 offers us new possibilities ...
Read more...The Principles Of Cross-Browser CSS Coding
- June 7th, 2010
- 263 Comments
It is arguable that there is no goal in web design more satisfying than getting a beautiful and intuitive design to look exactly the same in every currently-used browser. Unfortunately, that goal is generally agreed to be almost impossible to attain. Some have even gone on record as stating that ...
Read more...Connecting The Dots With CSS3
- May 27th, 2010
- 75 Comments
As a web community, we’ve made a lot of exciting progress in regards to CSS3. We’ve put properties like text-shadow & border-radius to good use while stepping into background-clip and visual effects like transitions and animations. We’ve also spent a great deal of time debating how and when to ...
Read more...Modern CSS Layouts, Part 2: The Essential Techniques
- May 6th, 2010
- 47 Comments
In Modern CSS Layouts, Part 1: The Essential Characteristics, you learned that modern, CSS-based web sites should be progressively enhanced, adaptive to diverse users, modular, efficient and typographically rich. Now that you know what characterizes a modern CSS web site, how do you build one? Here are dozens of essential ...
Read more...The Poetics Of Coding
- May 5th, 2010
- 113 Comments
There is little doubt that WordPress is one of the most popular blogging and content management platforms out there today. This is not an article about WordPress, though, but rather a more general musing on one of its thought-provoking taglines: “Code Is Poetry.” That’s an interesting metaphor. Recently, I’ve written about ...
Read more...CSS3 Solutions for Internet Explorer
- April 28th, 2010
- 224 Comments
CSS3 is probably the hottest trend in web design right now, allowing developers the opportunity to implement a number of solutions into their projects with some very straightforward CSS while avoiding having to resort to nonsemantic markup, extra images, and complex JavaScript. Unfortunately, it’s not a surprise that Internet Explorer, ...
Read more...CSS Specificity And Inheritance
- April 7th, 2010
- 46 Comments
CSS’ barrier to entry is extremely low, mainly due to the nature of its syntax. Being clear and easy to understand, the syntax makes sense even to the inexperienced Web designer. It’s so simple, in fact, that you could style a simple CSS-based website within a few hours of learning ...
Read more...CSS Sprites: Useful Technique, or Potential Nuisance?
- March 26th, 2010
- 156 Comments
Ah, the ubiquitous CSS sprites — one of the few web design techniques that was able to bypass “trend” status almost instantly, planting itself firmly into the category of best practice CSS. Although it didn’t really take off until well after A List Apart explained and endorsed it, it was ...
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