CSS3 – fun with rotation

March 24, 2010

CSS3 contains a lot of fun stuff. One of the new things is the ability to rotate virtually everything. Most of the major browsers have already implemented it – that is, it is supported in the most recent versions of Firefox, Safari, Opera and Chrome. It is not supported in IE8 (what did you expect?). [...]

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Box with rounded corners and shadows – fun with CSS3

March 3, 2010

Creating boxes with rounded corners on a web page used to be a large operation. It required the making of  images representing rounded corners, with the same colors as the box and the background, and then positioning them in the corners of the box using four DIVs, each with one image slice as background. Not [...]

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Opera 10.5 – faster, better CSS3 support

March 2, 2010

Opera 10.5 has arrived! Opera has today released the newest version of its Web browser, and claims it’s the fastest browser available for the Windows operating system. While timing isn’t everything, it is important, and this new version arrives just in time for the arrival of the controversial browser ballot screen in Europe, and at [...]

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Beginning CSS Web Development: From Novice to Professional, by Simon Collison

February 25, 2010

There are lots and lots of books on CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), but Beginning CSS Web Development stands out from the crowd. It is a well written book that delves straight into the practical matter and gives broad coverage at the same time as it contains a lot of practical examples of good usable code. [...]

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CSS Web Site Design, by Eric A. Meyer

February 14, 2010

CSS gives Web designers control over the appearance of their web sites by separating the visual presentation from the content. Eric A. Meyer, a Web Standards proponent and one of the most well known CSS wizards, has created an excellent hands-on training book that comes with a video tutorial and HTML/CSS files to be used [...]

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The Ultimate CSS Reference, by Tommy Olssen and Paul O’Brien

February 7, 2010

The Ultimate CSS Reference by Tommy Olssen and Paul O’Brien is exactly that – a broad reference guide covering all the CSS syntax. It covers every single CSS keyword, selector, pseudo-class and corresponding attribute known (including some that aren’t even in the official ratified W3C standard but supported by certain browsers) from CSS version 1 [...]

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Everything You Know about CSS is Wrong! by Rachel Andrew and Kevin Yank

January 31, 2010

This small book of little more than 100 pages has a very provocative title. Most likely in order to increase sales. And, as you probably suspect, the title is very misleading. Most of what you know about CSS is right, even after the arrival of CSS2.1. And the book actually doesn’t address most of the [...]

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3 column CSS layout with “display-table”, semi-hack to load content first for SEO

January 29, 2010

The new “display: table” syntax in CSS 2.1 opens for new simple layout techniques for otherwise complex designs, such as the fixed-strechable-fixed layout that many seem to want, and makes it easy to get columns of equal height. A few simple lines of code is all it takes – no faux columns, no huge bottom [...]

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