Tag: CSS

Web Design Dashboard

  • September 30, 2009 at 12:00 pm

  • A set of very handy lists of online web development tools, neatly and clearly laid out. Covers inspiration and design as well as markup, coding and marketing.
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Playing with CSS (IE7 fails, of course)

  • March 23, 2009 at 10:11 pm

  • I’ve been playing with CSS3, just for fun really. All of the styles I’ve used work in Safari; most of them work in Firefox and Opera; none of them work in Internet Explorer 7.

    For my test page I wanted: paragraphs with transparent coloured backgrounds layered over images; each image to be different; the boxes to [...]

CSS Eleven: I’m happier now

  • November 21, 2007 at 2:12 pm

  • It’s been a while, sorry. Last time I posted (aeons ago) I promised to do some testing for css3.info; oops. I am doing it, but as often happens it’s had to slide down my list of priorities.
    Having been a little wary of CSS Eleven back then, I have since been to a seminar day led [...]

CSS Eleven: good idea, but there are a lot more than eleven of us using CSS

  • October 9, 2007 at 8:05 am

  • CSS Eleven – an international group of eleven web developers and designers – intends to explain and illustrate the various CSS modules as they are developed.

CSS ‘sliding doors’: positioning the tabs

  • September 10, 2007 at 7:29 pm

  • A lot has been written on styling html lists to make them look pretty, a good example being Douglas Bowman’s ‘Sliding Doors‘ articles on alistapart.com.
    However, I’ve still not managed to master it. Either I have problems with floated elements or IE doesn’t style the tabs properly (IE6, at any rate).
    I finally got it to work [...]

Using CSS to add opaque text to transparent backgrounds

  • August 20, 2007 at 6:21 pm

  • CSS doesn’t currently allow for an element to have a transparent background with opaque text: the text will also be transparent. On top of that, any child elements will inherit the transparency. But there are ways…
    I’ve just redesigned this blog (come on, it could be worse), and I wanted the title to sit in a [...]

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