Among the many things to like about Veerle’s redesign of her blog is the way she does the hover effects for lists of links, such as those in her “approved” section.
Rather than force others to wade through Veerle’s CSS (wow, that’s quite a stylesheet!) I thought it’d be helpful to show how to create this “block hover” effect.
Read MoreA lot has been written about more efficient CSS (see below for some examples). Certainly, when you work with multiple people on larger sites, organizing your CSS in a logical, consistent manner becomes increasingly important.
Read MoreRecently I posted 10 tips to improve the design of your blog’s comment section. One of those tips was to make your ‘author’ comments look different so that your readers could easily see your contribution to the discussion. Read More
There are hundreds of sites that offer tutorials, examples and inspiration about CSS. In no particular order, here’s a list of my favorites that I visit on a regular basis.
Read MoreI was a little surprised that this new image replacement – or, should I say “placement” – technique didn’t get a little more press when it came out as it looks pretty interesting.
Read MoreGarrett Dimon has written a good article, Architecting CSS for Digital Web Magazine which is well worth a read. Two points he made particularly struck home with me.
This is one of the more useful CSS techniques I’ve learned, and seeing as I picked it up somewhat later than I would have liked, I’m sure there are others who are not simplifying their CSS by breaking it up in this way.
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Every couple of years CHILD Magazine surveys the nation’s children’ hospitals and ranks the top 25. Well, actually they rank the top 10 and then have 15 runners up, but since Seattle Children’s (where I work) came in at #13 this year, I’m going to say they rank the top 25 – any problem with that?
I thought it would be interesting to see whether the home pages (and by implication, the websites) of these esteemed pediatric medical establishments were of a similar caliber in terms of the validity of their code.
Read MoreAs I was reading “How To Clear Floats Without Structural Markup” at Position is Everything I started to wonder what is happening with CSS at the moment?
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