Mouse Cursor Affordance

One important interaction indicator on the web is the mouse cursor. The default cursor arrow changes into a pointing hand when you hover over links for example, which indicates they are indeed links and can be clicked on. It also changes into other things to differentiate context, for example it can change into a text […]

The Blueprint CSS Framework – Tutorials, Guides and Tools

CSS frameworks are a Gods send. They speed up development, ensure usability, meet all W3C standards, compatabile across most browsers and a hell of a lot more. Sounds marvelous doesn’t it. Why doesn’t everybody use them? Well, for the novice developer, frameworks, may be a little bit tricky to get there head around? That is […]

Modern CSS Layouts: The Essential Characteristics

We won’t talk about design trends and styles that characterize modern CSS-based layouts. These styles are always changing. Instead, we’ll focus on the broad underlying concepts that you need to know to create the most successful CSS layouts using the latest techniques. For instance, separating content and presentation is still a fundamental concept of CSS […]

How to Achieve Cross-Browser @font-face Support

At the moment, web fonts are all the buzz. Unfortunately, achieving cross browser support is not easy. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to get custom fonts working in all of the major browsers…

Web Creme

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Best Web Gallery

Best Web Gallery is an inspirational gallery site where we collect a wide range of quality design websites (Flash & CSS). What does quality design means to us? Quality Design = Visual + Technical + Creativity

Create Sidebars of Equal Height with Faux Columns

CSS can sometimes be a tricky business. There are times when even the simplest of layouts take some serious brainstorming! One of those frustrating times is when you want to create a series of columns of equal height, but the content in one column might be longer than the next. Here’s where the Faux Column […]

5 Rules To Write More Readable CSS Files

Complex CSS files can often be difficult to manage especially if you don’t use a structured way to write and organize their code. In a previous post I already illustrated a methodic approach to CSS coding. This post illustrates five simple practical rules that can help you write well structured and more readable CSS files […]

Visual Cheat Sheet: CSS Compatibility with Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8

This Visual Cheat Sheet will help you to understand CSS (2.1 and 3) behavior in Internet Explorer’s earlier (IE6 and IE7) and recent (IE8) versions. This cheat sheet (2 pages) contains some important CSS reference like… At rules (@rule), Element Selectors, Attribute Selectors, Pseudo-classes, Border and Layout, Position, Font and Text etc.

Screencast: Editable CSS3 Image Gallery

We build a pretty typical image gallery design pattern, a grid of images that pop up larger when clicked. But this image gallery page makes use of hot semantic HTML5 markup, loads of visual treats with CSS3 and jQuery, and made editable through the CMS PageLime. Quick reminder, the demo is awesome-est in a WebKit […]

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