This is old news, but is worth of revisiting because of it’s preposterousness. You are able to add CSS to your MySpace pages. Cool. But where do you do that? Is there some little fun CSS editor they built in? …
I really like this subtle effect on the fortuito.us blog. the text at the bottom of the page fades away. Even as you scroll the page content up and down, it appears as if it fades away into the …
It can be a mighty cool effect to have images that nestle themselves in the four corners of your webpage. You can achieve this positioning with CSS fairly easily without affecting any of your other page content. You may also …
If you are adding video to your website, using embedded YouTube videos is definitely something to consider. In addition to saving hugely on bandwidth, releasing your video into the wild on YouTube might gain you some exposure you may have …
It is a very healthy technique these days to center your entire website horizontally in the browser window (but be careful), especially nowadays with monitors getting bigger and bigger and with higher resolution. Sometimes it’s nice to break the …
There is a great tutorial on CSS Play that uses pure CSS to create flipbook style animation. The theory at work here is that there is there is a big stack of “slides” stacked on top of each other. On …
Despite their status as mortal enemies, divs and tables can work together if you need them to. Because of the ability to use vertical centering in tables, it is a somewhat popular technique to use a single-celled table with both …
You’ve heard of “clearing floats”, but do you really understand it? The whole problem is that floated objects do not add to the height of the object …
It can sometimes be useful to have some text be aligned to the left and some text be aligned to the right on the same line. For example, in a footer, where you might want to have copyright info on …
You can always float your images to one side or the other and give them a bit of a margin just by giving them a class like “floatright” and declaring that class as:
.floatright {…
float: right;
margin: 5px;
}
Jason from 37 Signals has a great post up on the Signal vs. Noise blog on how simple print stylesheets can be and still be effective. Basically using display: none; enmasse. People don’t need your header or your footer or …
