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CSS Juice has an interesting collection of rounded corner techniques to share:
Rounded corners is one of the most popular and frequently requested CSS techniques. Even the father of Internet Google also launch the rounded corners style markup with their Google Adsense and let users to custom their ads recently.
Actually, there are a lot […]
Here is a massive color chart with the useful hex codes for about 1,500 different colors.
What I like best about this chart is that it keeps all the similar colors grouped together (unlike just about every other color chart I can find.)
There is also a complimentary Black and White color chart […]
For quick reference sake, here is a table with hex codes for a wide range of grays from White to Black. It should assist when you are needing to pick a color for text or backgrounds.
There is a complimentary color hex code chart here.
Apple has published an article on writing Web pages for iPhone. It’s interesting to see that iPhone supports CSS3 media queries such as media=”only screen and (max-device-width: 480px)”. Also, JavaScript execution on iPhone is limited to 5 seconds per entry point, and Apple recommends auditing Web sites for unnecessary JavaScript (Google Analytics, anyone?) to improve […]
Recently, I took part in a thread at the International Web Developers Network that discussed the use of inline CSS to define the width and height of an image.
In short, you should not be using inline CSS (or external CSS) to define the height and width of an inline image.
Why? Because defining image dimensions is […]
Just a quick entry while I have two minutes. More blog entries coming from me in the near future.
Despite the influx in the use of CSS in recent years, I still see far too many people resort to Javascript when dealing with fancy menus on their Web sites. Now, I have no problem with people […]
This post courtesy of Rich Skrenta:
Steve Souders of Yahoo’s “Exceptional Performance Team” gave an insanely great presentation at Web 2.0 about optimizing website performance by focusing on front end issues. Unfortunately I didn’t get to see it in person but the Web 2.0 talks have just been put up and the ppt is fascinating and […]
I’m not aware of any site that demonstrates the potential of CSS more than the CSS Zen Garden.
There are currently nearly 1,000 different style sheets for the exact same page of HTML to demonstrate just how dramatically the layout can be affected by a really great designer.
I find that searching through the various layouts can […]
Search-this.com has an interesting article on practices to improve your CSS. Visit the site for all the details, but here are the cliff notes:
Keep it Simple
Don’t use hacks unless its a known and documented bug
Take care of margins and padding on all elements that you use
Avoid using too much absolute positioning
Avoid “divitus”
Avoid “Classitus”
Validate your […]
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