8th Jan

Grid Overlays to assist your website development

I’m a web designer by day and a web designer by night, I pretty much live and breath the web. I use many tools to assist me in my workflow, tools that both assist me in maintaining quality in my …

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29th Dec

CSS Inheritance: Slideshare Presentation

CSS Inheritance is pretty easy to understand but can take years to master. First you have the document tree to fathom, then you throw in the multiple value types, the selector groups and their individual behaviours and then it …

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16th Jun

My hatred of

This post is aimed at all web designers and developers that insist on using the dirty hack <br clear=”all”> within their website builds. Most people won’t understand my rage for <br clear=”all”> because it takes a certain level of web …

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21st Apr

The CSS Bible – CSS is your God!

Here you go, a stellar assortment of CSS related links for you to reference. If you’re a CSS beginner or even a CSS guru we’re sure there is something here for everyone, enjoy!

The CSS Box Model…

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22nd Feb

“Comic Sans” Virus (CSV) outbreak infects millions of websites worldwide

In the early hours of Sunday, 22nd February 2009, a savage virus called ‘CSV’ began to infect millions of websites worldwide.

Originating from an unknown source in the UK at around 2am GMT, The “Comic Sans” Virus ‘CSV’ started corrupting …

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3rd Feb

Your CSS framework needs you!

What’s a CSS framework?
A CSS framework can help you achieve rapid development of websites, web apps and mashups. It eliminates repetitive tasks while prototyping designs by using …

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5th Jan

CSS NEWS – A quick catchup

Some CSS news from the web design industry. I have cherry-picked these articles and tools, aimed specifically at CSS and web design. Enjoy!

My Top 10 Most Used CSS Class Names

Many developers are puzzled when it comes to assigning class …

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14th Nov

Fact: Chuck Norris hates tables!

Never ever ever use tables for layout!

Visit: shouldiusetablesforlayout.com

You’ll see a mock towards those who use tables for layout.

It’s such a geeky website, but if you look at the source code it’s even …

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30th Oct

CSS Box Model Hierarchi

Yep the good old CSS box model, explained once more. The CSS box model is a fundamental element of modern web design that all web designers need to master. …

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30th Oct

CSS for ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS – shaping up with CSS

Learning CSS from the beginning

CSS is an abbreviation for Cascading Style Sheets. Web designers use a CSS file to control the visual layout of a web page, grouping all styling declarations into one reference document while removing them from the …

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7th Oct

A List Apart – 10 years on

A List Apart, the original online magazine targeting ‘people who make websites’, is 10 years old. Jeffrey Zeldman, co-founder of A List Apart, has written an …

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28th Sep

10 CSS shorthand techniques you’ll use everyday

CSS shortland is a technique of writing mulitple declarations and values in a single line of CSS code. The …

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