Centering images
An excellent article explaining the pros and cons of different image-centering methods. I love when I find something that gives me exactly the answer I need.
Category: css
Skipping Photoshop for web design
Occasional the folks at 37signals write a blog post that seems to channel thoughts that I’ve just never put to paper [blog]. This week they did it twice, with two posts about how they prefer to skip Photoshop and work with HTML and CSS when it comes to designing a web site.
I’ve found it […]
ColorZilla 2
Go get it — just for the DOM color analysis, if nothing else. If only it were integrated with Firebug, it would be perfect.
Fixing width issues with IE6 print stylesheets
Note to self: remember to use !important when trying to deal with text running off the page in print versions of pages in IE6.
Basic steps to follow:
EITHER have separate print and screen stylesheets …
<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" type="text/css" href="styles.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" media="print" type="text/css" href="print.css" />
… OR declare separate screen and print rule sets in a […]
How I learned CSS
I remember when I first tried to understand how to produce designs for the web — coming from the paper-based world, it was hard for me to accept everything that was suddenly out of my control. When I first tried to grasp CSS with the help of now-defunct Adobe GoLive, I bailed pretty quickly. Table-based […]
rdmey refresh
When I started this about a month ago, I just grabbed a template that didn’t look too awful, changed a few colors, got rid of all the pixel-based font-sizing, and hoped that no one would look under the hood until I had some time to do it myself from scratch. With the holidays here, I […]
Using ems for font sizing in css
A List Apart had a great article recently on using ‘em’ for CSS font-size declarations, which served as great back-up for some conversations I’d been having among coworkers. (It turns out that people who didn’t have a former life in print don’t necessarily understand what an em is: a self-referential unit of font size measurement, […]
Standards for HTML emails?
After a couple of attempts that ended not-so-well, I gave up on HTML emails. I advise people to work with someone who’s an expert with them, or to at least use templates that are known to work, and then I wish them well. At a job interview I actually proclaimed my active dislike of HTML […]
My case for standards-based web layouts
Since 1999, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) — a standards body that tells the world how the web should work — has urged web sites to use semantic markup for content and cascading stylesheets (CSS) for layout, and to abandon code that combines information and presentation in non-semantic HTML table-based layouts. Semantic markup …
puts […]
