Tag Archives: css

New work ~ ASTA Sports website

Recently launched is the new website for the Australian Sports Training Association, an organisation set up by Rachel Light to “help children in Australia to play sport and enhance those who have a keen interest to develop further”. Rachel describes … more…

06/01/11 | Cats: design, new-work, web, Wordpress | Tags: css, design, sport, wordpress

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

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