Just signed up for Webvisions last night, it’s gonna be awesome (and in Portland, to boot). If you’ve been thinking about going, now’s the time to sign up–today is the last day for the early bird discount (and students get even more off). I’ve been looking through the schedule and here’s what is lookin’ good to me at the moment:
Regardless of what some people say, there is one area of rounded corners that hasn’t been dealt with much and that is rounding the corners of images. Before, if you wanted to round an image’s corners, you’d have to open it up in photoshop (or whatever image editor you use) and fix it up there. But no more…
Oftentimes I think people use different class names for different style-types, but when time comes to start styling, their CSS gets confusing. So for example, say I have a site with a couple of different sections and have several headers in each. Some of these headers will have a few similarities with each other, yet I’ll still want some in one section to look a little bit different than those in another section.
Note: Please realize that this post was written in 2006, and a lot has changed since then–including YUI Grids. I am not too familiar with how the framework works now, but I am told it’s much better than it was when I wrote this article. Also note that I am not against all CSS frameworks and am even known to use them occasionally myself.
So yesterday I published a post defending frameworks, saying that if they helped you out: use them. Well that was before Dustin mentioned that Yahoo’s created a CSS Framework. I checked it out…and after having done so, I now take back some of what I said yesterday.
An unfortunate downfall of WordPress’s the_category() is that one cannot define what comes before and after each category.
There are actually two ways to create curved corners on link hovers, and I’ll be explaining both of these along with their respective advantages and disadvantages.
Yep, I’ve launched my reboot. If you’re a regular, go ahead and clear your cache and give this page a good refresh.
My list of the top 6 under-used CSS properties:
As I’ve been designing and developing my reboot, I’ve fallen in love with a few new things. Allow me to introduce them to you:
Last week I came across a problem where I needed to float a container, but I also needed to position something absolutely inside that container. Now I suppose I could’ve done something like this:
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