Tag: webdesign

Join the cause for standards in html email

  • October 1, 2007 at 5:17 pm

  • I’ve suffered plenty of headaches trying to create standards-compliant emails, and have given up in favour of bloated, cumbersome, outdated html (ie the stuff of nightmares where the design of each paragraph is dependent on its own font tags).

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 [...]

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 [...]

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