Posted by: siddesigner on: December 10, 2008
I believe the recent surge in popularity of CSS frameworks comes from a lack of basic understanding of the CSS box model and how it’s implemented across browsers. I wanted to share with you some quick tips on how to avoid easy pitfalls so you can create your own CSS framework in no time flat, [...]
Posted by: siddesigner on: December 5, 2008
9 Information Design Tips to Make You a Better Web Designer
Dec 3rd in Articles by Collis
It’s probably the least glamourous part of web design, but information design is by no means the least important. Locating and consuming information is the quintessential web task, far surpassing buying, playing and communicating, all of which include a good [...]
Posted by: siddesigner on: October 25, 2008
If you have Photoshop knowledge, you can make your own icon image. Start with a 64×64 image and after you’ve finished your creation, resize it down to 16×16 and save it as .ico file. If you do not have the icon file format in Photoshop, you can download it here.
Download Photoshop .ico file format. Right-click [...]
Posted by: siddesigner on: October 25, 2008
I know many people have wondered how to center their content both horizontally and vertically but never managed to find a solution on how to do this using CSS. I have seen people use tables to accomplish this, in this tutorial I will show you how it can be done.
We start off by using an [...]
Posted by: siddesigner on: October 4, 2008
Welcome everyone, to another long yet humourous tutorial from me! This one is going to take you through every nook and cranny of taking a lovely, glossy layout from Photoshop and putting it into a webpage with no tables, valid XHTML and CSS.
Here’s the one we’re going to be working with today, and later on [...]
Posted by: siddesigner on: October 4, 2008
1. In your html page embed link to your css file:
<html>
<head>
<title>Test Document</title>
<link href=”styles.css” rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css”>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
2. Create your bulleted list. Here is ours:
<p>Most popular apple varieties in New England today:</p>
<ul>
<li>McIntosh</li>
<li>Cortland</li>
<li>Red Delicious</li>
<li>Empire</li>
<li>Rome</li>
</ul>
3. In css file we will redefine <li> tag. Let’s change these default bullets to our custom bullets.
li {
list-style-position: outside;
list-style-image: url(your_bullet.gif);
}
4. Format [...]
Posted by: siddesigner on: October 4, 2008
Looking to add a little style to your image links? Let’s use CSS to add a background color that appears when the mouse hovers over the image. This style can be used on a variety of images but we’ll be looking at adding this style to affiliate buttons.
Step 1
First, we have the html [...]
