Archive for the 'css' Category

If the world was built using CSS…

Monday, December 8th, 2008

…it’d be a pretty strange place to live! If we start by imagining that websites are buildings, then to start with only a percentage of people would create buildings properly. Some places you visit would look fluid and beautiful no matter what angle you saw them from, like a stunning piece of architecture. Other buildings [...]

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css rounded corners made simple

Friday, April 25th, 2008

This one puzzled me for ages. I tried everything – transparent GIF’s, alpha-channel PNG’s and a big chisel. Then I found RoundedCornr and have never looked back! It’s basically a web-based css rounded corner machine that does all the hard work for you, you just feed it your desired corner radius, background colour, box colour [...]

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Cross-Browser Compatibility

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Even when using the most sound CSS design principles, sometimes a website can end up looking different across a range of platforms/browsers. That’s where cross-browser compatibility checking comes in. In the early days I had to have physical access to a range of machines (or phone people and ask them to check!) in order to [...]

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