TechKnack

I know, I updated the site design less than a year ago. I decided I could do better than a fixed-width design built for 800 by 600 resolution displays.
The new layout, also my first WordPress theme (yay), is a bit more flexible. By default, it is full-browser-width, with reasonable space allotted to the [...]

Occasionally you’ll be coding out a site, and you want a “sticky footer”, a footer that sticks to the bottom of the browser viewport or the bottom of the main content section, whichever is lowest.
There are a few notable sites that have posted methods for doing this, but the short answer is it doesn’t work [...]

I came across a page recently that uses ordered lists for the entire layout — not just the menu. The entire layout is in two parts: one ordered list for the header/body/footer, and another ordered list for the three columns inside the body.
I find this to be an interesting approach to multi-column layouts. [...]

Circular menus. Ever heard of them? I’m not sure if they have an “official” or “common” name, but this name is pretty descriptive.
Circular menus are superior in usability to the typical rectangular slide-out menu. Why? Because, ideally, each menu item is the same distance from the initial pointer position as [...]

Ever seen the odd site that, instead of solid or absent underlining, has a dotted or dashed underline? Ever wonder how it’s done? It’s really simple: border-style.
All you need to do to get an alternative underlining effect is to, first off, hide the default underline with text-decoration:none, and then specify a bottom [...]