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Archive for the ‘Tutorials’ Category
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It’s the social web now. We share everything, from our musical tastes, to the bacon avocado burger we ate for breakfast , to the very funny things we say and do.I want to show you how to style your music streams and give you some graphics to do so, cause let’s face it, it takes time to design things and it’s easier to use mine than yours ;)
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We’ve all seen them, the hoards of PNG fixes for IE6. That is because IE6 is a bag of smashed buttholes. I’m serious. It is. That is why we (web designers of the new world) have to continually come up with creative ways to solve the PNG issue. In case you are [...]
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Ok. I have seen a myriad of techniques on creating the PHP code to pump out alternating row classes on tables, list elements, what have you. It’s usually some counter variable that you divide by 2 to see if there is an even result (MOD operator). But then you got the whole [...]
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I ran across this article at SitePoint, which is very good. Basically, the concept is that while the target attribute is compliant in an XHTML Transitional world, it is exactly that. Transitional. Transitional doctypes allow us to go from deprecated doctypes to something more standard, such as XHTML Strict.
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Quite awhile back, I wrote and article entitled Creating a Star Rater using CSS. In fact, if the CSS for this article is a little confusing, you may want to visit my previous articles to get yourself acquainted. I wrote it to my best ability and I shared what I could with the growing CSS-loving community. It was pretty flippin’ cool if you ask me, but it needed more. So, out of that need was born CSS Star Rating Part Deux, a vast improvement to the first, but by no means perfection. Out of the many comments I received about the most recent version, there were still some lacking areas.
By now, people’s grasp as a whole has grown quite a bit I feel and I think that this time does not warrant a full-fledged tutorial (also, my lack of time doesn’t help either). However, there are some significant issues with my most current Star Rating tutorial and I have always wanted to take another go at it.
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Consistent fonts for form items
This article is written partly inspired by Nathan Smith’s article from Sonspring. The idea with his article is that most browsers by default display form items with a different style than that of the document. This is because by default, form items do not inherit the CSS rules for font-weight, [...] -
Say, you want to make a header for your site, but not just any header. You want some sort of cool graphic and your very own custom font all stylized the way you like it. This sort of decoration is just way too complicated for CSS and thats ok. What helps me [...]
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As all CSS users should know, the :hover pseudo state is sweet, but has its limitations. :hover pretty much works on all elements, and in the future, it should work on all elements in all browsers. However, right now, we still have to deal with Internet Explorer 6 and the fact that :hover [...]
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Horizontally centering text or images should be an extremely easy task in the XHTML/CSS world. I remember the good old day when you wanted something centered, you would just wrap the thing you wanted centered with the <center> tag and all was dandy. Your job was done.
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I am introducing a series of CSS tricks that I have learned over the past couple of years. Many of these techniques, in fact most, were not created by me, however I use them almost every day. Hopefully, every couple of days, I will share another CSS rule or set of rules that [...]
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