Alternative Link Underlining

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 [...]

Pretty Up Your Forms with CSS

Let’s face it: form elements au naturel are NOT pretty. So what do we do with them?

We add a border thickness here, a border color there, leaving the whole thing largely unchanged. And still ugly. Time to change that.
I’m going to use the Tableless CSS Forms code provided by DynamicDrive’s CSS library [...]

Promote Standards Awareness with CSS Naked

CSS Naked is a standards-awareness initiative led/organized by Dustin Diaz. On the specified date, April 9th, all participating websites will strip their sites of their CSS, allowing the world to see the underlying clean-code usability:
The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic [...]

Got Mad Coding Skills?

Think you got what it takes to slice up a PSD file into a valid and usable (X)HTML template? Then check out CSS Off, a contest that gives you the opportunity to do just that. At one minute past midnight CST on April 5, a PSD file will be uploaded for contestants to [...]

Faviconize your blog

Favicons. Those little icons that appear on FireFox’s tabs, IE’s favorites bar, and various other places in web-related applications. Simple little icons, no larger than 32 pixels square, yet they are a part of your site’s identity.
Why have a favicon? Kiseki.co.uk puts it well:
A favicon can help people identify your site quickly [...]