CSS Off kicked off yesterday and finished today at noon. It was fun to build and pretty straightforward. I could have made an elastic layout and so on and so forth, but I opted for sleep over perfection. I don’t expect to win by any means, but it was an interesting exercise in my front [...]
In order to avoid confusion in typing your class/id names from memory, it is best to follow some sort of naming convention. With a proper naming convention, there will be no question on how you have structured your names. What does CSS allow? CSS is a case sensitive language. Using camel case class or id [...]
The Symptoms Ignoring HTML elements such as h1, h2, ul, li, and instead styling all text with classes applied to divs and spans. e.g.: PLAIN TEXT HTML: <div class="list"> <span class="heading" style="font-size:12px; font-weight:bold;"> My Items </span> <br /> • <span style="font-size:10px;">Item 1</span><br /> • <span style="font-size:10px;">Item 2</span><br /> [...]
When writing stylesheets, it is common for a developer new to CSS to name classes for text as .redBold, .smallText, or .bigBlueBoldItalics. These classes will wrap pieces of text to give fancy schmancy styles. With CSS, it is best to avoid these literal names. In the case of a site redesign, text that was once [...]
I have previously begged readers for designs that I could code into XHTML/CSS to fulfill my pleasure of the clean front-end languages. As a beacon to my cries, a contest emerges that caters to my lack of visual design skills. CSS OFF - the brainchild of Tony The CSS Guy and designer JD Graffam - [...]
Too often while coding a layout, I exclaim "Why isn't there a way to do this with CSS?" Well, CSS3 offers a heavy arsenal of tools that will make our lives much easier. You can preview some of these at css3.info. Most notably useful to me will be the border enhancements, particularly border-radius. Something tells [...]
My brother sent You're A Standardista If... to me before I left. I had to nod and smile at a few of the items listed. My personal addition: You're a standardista if... you draw with pen and paper the various id and class selectors and elements of a page before ever laying a finger on [...]
