Examples and Tips for Great HTML and CSS Formatting

An overlooked aspect of websites is the formatting of HTML and CSS documents. This affects validation, SEO, and visual ease of use. Visual ease of use is the last thing most authors tend to keep in mind, but it’s still very important. …
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Advanced CSS Navigation Menu

Tutorial that shows how to take a Photoshop watercolor design, slice it and code the XHTML and CSS to turn it into a working menu…
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15 CSS Tricks That Must be Learned

As web designers and developers, we have all come to learn many css tricks and techniques that help us achieve our layout goals. The list of these techniques is an ever expanding one, however, there are certain tricks that are essential to achieve your goal. Today, we will review 20 excellent css techniques to keep […]
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Understanding CSS z-index

Usually HTML pages can be considered two-dimensional, because text, images and other elements are arranged on the page without overlapping. There is a single rendering flow, and all elements are aware of the space taken by others. In CSS 2.1, each box has a position in three dimensions. In addition to their horizontal and vertical […]
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The Optimal Line Length Principle Applied to Web Design

There are many differences between web design and print design. Some of the priniciples of print design are also applicable to web design. One of the most useful is the Principle of Optimal Line Length. It states that, for any given font-size of a multiple-line block of type (like a paragraph), there is a range […]
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Trick Out Your CSS With Server Side Code

CSS is a great tool for styling web pages and keeping the style code in it’s own place, instead of mucking up the HTML. Unfortunately, CSS is not a programming language, and does not have the tools that come with a server side language like PHP. However, we can use Server-side languages to generate style […]
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First Look: Object Oriented CSS

Just another framework? Think bigger: “OOCSS isn’t really a framework … but a way of writing scalable, sane, maintainable CSS”. Most web designers tend to write CSS code so that it requires as little extra markup as possible. Fundamentally, adopting OOCSS is making a mental shift towards easy maintenance and reuse of your styles, even […]
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Introducing LESS: a Better CSS

A CSS compiler that retains the original CSS syntax but adds a bunch of new features inclusing variables, mixins, nested inheritance and operations. It’s called LESS, which stands for Leaner CSS…
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Fighting Form Spam With CSS

Fighting form spam is something almost every website owner has to face. If you allow comments on your site you will most likely be a subject of form spam attacks. The most effective and most popular way of fighting form spam is using generated images (captchas) that contain text that user should then retype into […]
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Border-radius: create rounded corners with CSS

W3C has offered some new options for borders in CSS3, of which one is border-radius. Both Mozila/Firefox and Safari 3 have implemented this function, which allows you to create round corners on box-items…
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