normalize.css

Normalize.css is a customisable CSS file that makes browsers render all elements more consistently and in line with modern standards. Only targets the styles that need normalizing…

KEYS.css

A simple stylesheet for rendering beautiful keyboard-style elements…

Setting Rather than Resetting Default Styling

Following the idea of “tweaking” a reset file, I came up with this “base styles sheet”. It sets default styling for many elements, follows a couple of recommendations regarding usability/accessibility, and addresses a few “common issues” as well…

10 Tips for Better Print Style Sheets

Print style sheets have been somewhat forgotten, and yet they remain important all the same. Many people print out articles to read while traveling or when they have no access to the Internet. Print style sheets have definite benefits. For example, reading on paper is less tiring on the eyes than reading on screen. Also, […]

Using Data URIs in CSS

Data URIs allow any file to be embedded inline within CSS. You can use them in many ways including embedding images and fonts into your CSS…

To CSS Reset or Not to CSS Reset

Question: Which Global Reset for CSS Should I Use? The short answer is the simplest one possible. The slightly longer answer is that you should reset some styles, but do so with a good reason. The long answer is that the exact CSS reset you choose will depend on the needs of your design…

Why Stylesheet Abstraction Matters

I’ve seen a number of comments on blogs and twitter that amount to “You don’t need a new stylesheet syntax, CSS is simple and you’re a moron if you can’t do it.” I agree, CSS is simple. You assign style primitives to elements and some of those primitives cascade down to the elements contained within. […]

Object Oriented CSS

Object oriented CSS OOC is one of the new buzz words in the industry. A lot of work is being done by Nicole Sullivan. I kind of like the idea myself and have been doing some forrays into it myself. I think that it will stop hap-hazard CSS coding. I find this happens quite a […]

The 5-Minute CSS Mobile Makeover

More people are surfing the Web via mobile device than ever before. It’s just so convenient to have that mobile access to anything you need. Sadly, most websites have not yet considered their mobile visitors, who probably move on to the next site before trying to make sense of a jumbled mess. Those of you […]

HTML 5 Reset Stylesheet

We’ve had a number of people asking about templates, boilerplates and styling for HTML 5 so to give you all a helping hand and continue on from those basic building blocks that Remy talked about last week, here’s a HTML 5 reset stylesheet for you to take away and use, edit, amend and update in […]

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