CSS Float: The Basics To Get You Started

This is the first a series of blog posts that I’m going to be writing that has to do with the CSS float property. I hope you can learn from this and be able to have a broader understanding of how you can use CSS to your benefit.
“So what is it good for”, you say? […]

CSS Learning Resources

One of the first coding languages I taught myself was CSS. I’ve learned the wrong way and right way to do many of the tasks CSS can handle. Hopefully some of the resources below will help someone else alpong their way to CSS mastery.
Books
The first book I ever purchased about CSS was very helpful at […]

Reusing Images and Repetitive Content with CSS

I work with websites that have a need for alot of images and repetitive content. One of the needs I’ve had to work with is that of not wanting to change the original image once it’s been uploaded, if the change is only temporary.
An example would be where you would need to make product links […]

Help for bugs/issues with CSS and Internet Explorer

This is an attempt at creating a list of known issues/bugs with Internet Explorer and CSS, and documentation/help for those bugs. I hope that you find it helpful. I’ve been needing to research some of these, so I thought I should document and share. Feel free to submit your finds as well.
Articles / Websites to […]

CSS Off Contest - Wikinetic - The Judging Block

So, I love critique. It is always unexpected, and you learn from it. Even if you hate to admit it, you do learn. That’s why I love CSS Off so much! But now to recap some things that were said about my entry. Here is the link where my critique is, I’m the last.
But first, […]

Cool CSS Matted Border Effect

So I thought I would share a simple trick that creates a really clean effect. It’s what I call a double border. I don’t like adding borders onto the actual images I put on websites, so I’ve experimented with using css to create the borders. What I’ve found is that css rocks at doing this!
Basically […]

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 […]

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. […]