It’s true: Your navigation items are really a LIST. Bread, Milk, Sugar, Coffee, Home, Contact Us, About, Cheese, Tomatoes, Sitemap. See, it’s a LIST!! And it should be coded and styled like a list.
Archive for February, 2010
2-Column, Center-aligned Fixed Width Layout with CSS
Saturday, February 27th, 2010How to build a simple center-aligned fixed width two-column layout.
How to Style Headings with CSS
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010Different browsers have different default styling for headings – the h1, h2, h3, etc. tags. However, with a little bit of CSS, we can style them any way we like.
How to Style Links with CSS
Saturday, February 20th, 2010Most browsers will show links by default in blue and visited links in purple. But with just a little bit of CSS, we can do better than that — MUCH better…
CSS Shortcuts
Saturday, February 20th, 2010Shortcuts are a good thing. They save time, gas, and make life easier. And who wouldn’t like things easier?
Center-aligned Web Pages with CSS
Friday, February 19th, 2010A website tends to look more balanced when it’s centered on the monitor, instead of clinging to the left side with lots of white space on the right. This looks even worse with increased resolution. And it’s not that folks will use that white space to make notes…..
Making Web Pages Printable with CSS
Monday, February 15th, 2010
In 2003 I wrote an article on how to use CSS to make web pages printable. I figure that it made sense to include it here … the article:
One of the classic problems with how web pages are designed, is that they are horrible to print. Horrible in the sense that page elements (text, images, etc.) don’t line up and unwanted images and navigation links get printed.
I am as guilty as anyone of creating pages like that, but I am aiming to fix it for your websites and mine. While most other web designers will create separate ‘printable’ pages (big waste of time), we will only be making some simple additions to our pages to make them ‘print friendly’.
CSS Text Alignment
Monday, February 15th, 2010In this simple tip, I will show you how to align text on your webpage using the text align property with CSS.
CSS Font Sizes
Sunday, February 14th, 2010In this tip, you will learn how to specify a font’s size with CSS.
Being a practical nerd, I will not waste time talking about all the various methods for declaring font sizes with CSS … instead I will concentrate on the two widely used ways and then briefly explain the differences.
CSS Font Color
Sunday, February 14th, 2010In this ultra simple nerd-free CSS tip, I will show you how to change the color of your fonts with CSS.
-
Interactive CSS Training
Start from scratch or improve your CSS knowledge by signing up for an interactive CSS training course!
-
Web Designer Roadmap
Web technologies and trends are constantly changing. Not sure where to start? Use our roadmaps to help you decide what to learn next.
