April 20th, 2008 under css, design, web
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 [...]
April 12th, 2008 under css, design, web
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 [...]
April 4th, 2008 under css, design, html, standards, web
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 [...]
April 1st, 2008 under css, design, html, javascript, standards, web
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 [...]
March 25th, 2008 under design, html, web
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 [...]