Category CSS

CSS is the language for styling websites, including their colors, layouts, and typography. With CSS, you can propagate styles to your HTML components, ensuring a consistent design across all types of devices, browsers, and operating systems. We highly recommend Heydon Pickering’s introduction to two key CSS features on creating consistent designs with minimal effort, in addition to using Semantic CSS With Intelligent Selectors.

Progressive Enhancement: What It Is, And How To Use It?

by Sam Dwyer

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April 22, 2009 — Progressive Enhancement is a powerful methodology that allows Web developers to concentrate on building the best possible websites while balancing the issues inherent in those websites being accessed ... Read More…

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Chris Coyier wrote

[Ask SM] Transparent Background, Positioning Problem

April 17, 2009 — This is our fifth installment of Ask SM, featuring reader questions about Web design, focusing on HTML, CSS and JavaScript. In this post we’ll cover how you can style only the text inputs, refreshing a content-block automatically, how to avoid some positioning problems and … Read More…

Antonio Carusone wrote

8 Simple Typography Tips For Your Designs

April 3, 2009 — Many people, designers included, think that typography consists of only selecting a typeface, choosing a font size and whether it should be regular or bold. For most people it ends there. But there is much more to achieving good typography and it’s in the details that … Read More…

Chris Coyier wrote

[Ask SM: CSS] Equal Spacing, CSS Font Replacement

March 23, 2009 — This is our fourth installment of Ask SM, featuring reader questions about Web design, focusing on HTML, CSS and JavaScript. In this post we’ll cover how you can distribute the horizontal space between elements evenly, how you can achieve maximum sides on images; … Read More…

Chris Spooner wrote

Push Your Web Design Into The Future With CSS3

January 8, 2009 — There are exciting new features in the pipeline for Cascading Style Sheets that will allow for an explosion of creativity in Web design. These features include CSS styling rules that are being released with the upcoming CSS3 specification. Realistically, you won’t be … Read More…

Vitaly Friedman wrote

22 Extremely Useful And Powerful CSS Tools

December 9, 2008 — We love useful stuff. For months, we have been bookmarking interesting, useful and creative CSS tools and related resources. We have been contacting developers, encouraging them to improve their tools and release their handy little apps to the public. Last year we prepared … Read More…

Chris Coyier wrote

12 Principles For Clean HTML Code

November 12, 2008 — Beautiful HTML is the foundation of a beautiful website. When I teach people about CSS, I always begin by telling them that good CSS can only exist with equally good HTML markup. A house is only as strong as its foundation, right? The advantages of clean, semantic HTML are … Read More…

Tony White wrote

7 Principles Of Clean And Optimized CSS

August 18, 2008 — Some of you may remember the days when 30KB was the recommended maximum size of a web page, a value which included HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, and images. I find with every new project with even the slightest bit of complexity, it’s not long before that 30 KB ideal … Read More…

Rick Christie wrote

Top 10 CSS Table Designs

August 13, 2008 — Tables have got to be one of the most difficult objects to style in the Web, thanks to the cryptic markup, the amount of detail we have to take care of, and lack of browser compatibility. A lot of time could be wasted on a single table although it’s just a simple one. Read More…

Vitaly Friedman wrote

Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides

May 2, 2008 — Once your latest project is finished, you are very likely to forget the structure of the project’s layout, with all its numerous classes, color schemes and type setting. To understand your code years after you’ve written it you need to make use of sensible code … Read More…