Posts Tagged ‘tips’
Your Body and You
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
About couple weeks ago I wrote a post called “Styling your body” which attempted to break the convention of using a “container” or “wrap” div when building a new site. I showed how to cut out a (usually) unnecessary div element and clean up your code. In this post I hope to show you how [...]
Tags: CSS, php, tips
Posted in Web Development | 4 Comments »
Styling Your Body
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Diving into the depths of CSS involves much more than just mastering selectors, properties and semantic (X)HTML, it has a lot to do with knowing when you need extra elements (span, div, etc). What do I mean? Since CSS layouts have exploded into the mainstream of web design there have been few designer/developer types who [...]
Tags: CSS, design, tips
Posted in Web Development, Web Standards | 21 Comments »
A True CSS Table
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
A few years ago I while I was working at a community college in Virginia I was building a site for their Arts & Sciences department and trying out some think, different colored borders for the site container and I noticed that when two borders intersect they form a diagonal line. You can see it [...]
Tags: CSS, tips, xhtml
Posted in Web Development | 4 Comments »
Manipulating Opacity
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Any one who has worked with CSS opacity has, most likely run into this problem. Using: div{ filter:alpha(opacity=60); -moz-opacity:0.60; opacity:0.60; } to make a transparent background. It works great in all browsers, but have you ever tried putting text in that div? Right, it applies the opacity to everything inside the div as well. So [...]
Tags: moz, opacity, tips
Posted in Browsers, Web Development, Web Standards | 4 Comments »