Category Archives: css

New CSS Reset Framework ~ Toucan CSS Reset

For yonks now I’ve been using Eric Meyer’s infinitely useful Reset Reloaded framework to bring my designs down to a standard level on which to build. I’ve just picked up a Tweet from the guys over at Smashing Magazine regarding … more…

22/08/10 | Cats: css, design, web | Tags: css, framework, reset

Styling the current_page_item tag for child pages in WordPress

During a recent WordPress theme build, I wanted to have a sidebar that permanently showed child pages with a hover state and an active state utilising the current_page_item tag as generated by WordPress. So far so good, but during testing, … more…

05/08/10 | Cats: css, design, web, Wordpress | Tags: css, problem solved, solution, wordpress

If the world was built using CSS…

…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 … more…

08/12/08 | Cats: css, design, general, web | Tags: css, design

css rounded corners made simple

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 … more…

25/04/08 | Cats: css, design, general | Tags: css, gif, png

Cross-Browser Compatibility

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 … more…

10/04/08 | Cats: css, web | Tags: browser, browsershots, flock, kmeleon, platform, seamonkey

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