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.

Powerful CSS-Techniques For Effective Coding

by Vitaly Friedman

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February 21, 2008 — Sometimes being a web-developer is just damn hard. Particularly coding is often responsible for slowing down our workflow, reducing the quality of our work and sleepless nights with pizza and coffee ... Read More…

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50 Web Designers x 6 Questions

September 5, 2007 — Some months ago we’ve selected 50 prominent designers and design companies, contacted them and asked to answer five design-related questions, sharing their knowledge and experience with fellows developers. 35 designers have responded then. For each of 5 questions we’ve … Read More…

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CSS Specificity: Things You Should Know

July 27, 2007 — Apart from Floats, the CSS Specificity is one of the most difficult concepts to grasp in Cascading Stylesheets. The different weight of selectors is usually the reason why your CSS-rules don’t apply to some elements, although you think they should have. In order to … Read More…

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Time-Savers: Code Beautifier And Formatter

July 13, 2007 — Well-documented and readable source code is essential for every collaborative project. Logically structured, well organized and nicely formatted, the code can speed up the bug hunting and help to keep the code clean, minimal and still functional. These facts are particularly … Read More…

Vitaly Friedman wrote

70 Expert Ideas For Better CSS Coding

May 11, 2007 — CSS isn’t always easy to deal with. Depending on your skills and your experience, CSS coding can sometimes become a nightmare, particularly if you aren’t sure which selectors are actually being applied to document elements. An easy way to minimize the complexity … Read More…

Vitaly Friedman wrote

70 Expert Ideas For Better CSS Coding

Vitaly Friedman wrote

CSS Float Theory: Things You Should Know

May 2, 2007 — The concept of floats is probably one of the most unintuitive concepts in CSS. Floats are often misunderstood and blamed for floating all the context around it, causing readability and usability problems. However, the reason for these problems isn’t the theory itself, … Read More…

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53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn't Live Without

January 19, 2007 — CSS is important. And it is being used more and more often. Cascading Style Sheets offer many advantages you don’t have in table-layouts - and first of all a strict separation between layout, or design of the page, and the information, presented on the page. Thus the … Read More…

Sven Lennartz wrote

List of CSS Tools

September 2, 2006 — What can be better than simple, useful and handy tools you can use “on the fly” in the development process? Whether you’d like to test font size, generate online-forms, create rollover-navigation, create a slide-show, format CSS code or optimize your code - … Read More…

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