Author Archives: Israel Jernigan

Learning to create css layout: Part 2 of 2

Okay, so this has taken awhile for me to get around to writing.
This is the second part to the learning to create css layout series. This part focuses on how to make the menu. The last part left off here.
We are going to create the menu from an unordered list. The main reason we do [...]

CSS Menu Contest

So yesterday, I found a link to cssmenumaker for a css menu contest. I couldn’t help myself. I could win an iphone! Who doesn’t want to win an iphone?
So I whipped a few examples up. They aren’t like spectacular or anything, but I though that you might like to see them. I might make a [...]

CSS Off Contest – Wikinetic

So, earlier this year I was looking for CSS contests and the like, and I finally found one last June. It’s called CSS Off.
Convert a .psd into HTML making use of web standards, in 24 hours or less.
excerpt from CSS Off
So I entered their first contest and thought I did extremely well. Here was [...]

Facebook / Paypal integration and contest

Okay, so I didn’t write part 2 of the css layout tutorial. I have a really good excuse. I found out that Paypal was having a contest for $10,000! And I couldn’t resist.
The contest was to use Facebook’s new developer api(which I have never used) and integrate it with Paypal. So that’s what I’ve been [...]

Learning to create css layout: Part 1 of 2

For those of you out there who are still wondering how to transition from table design to css design, I am going to try and rescue you.
I will take you through a new thought process, and explain how you would do something in tables and then convert it to css.
Hopefully you will find this helpful. [...]

Basic CSS Setup

I was thinking to myself that I should create a basic set of css files that I can use for any projects that I might be working on. So I did, and it has saved me alot of time. It has a reset for the basic html elements. There is a css file for forms. [...]