Recently I posted 10 tips to improve the design of your blog’s comment section. One of those tips was to make your ‘author’ comments look different so that your readers could easily see your contribution to the discussion. Read More
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Top 10 CSS Sites
There are hundreds of sites that offer tutorials, examples and inspiration about CSS. In no particular order, here’s a list of my favorites that I visit on a regular basis.
Read More“Yet Another” Image Replacement Technique?
I was a little surprised that this new image replacement – or, should I say “placement” – technique didn’t get a little more press when it came out as it looks pretty interesting.
Read MoreTips and Tricks for Organizing Complex CSS
Garrett Dimon has written a good article, Architecting CSS for Digital Web Magazine which is well worth a read. Two points he made particularly struck home with me.
Optimize Your CSS by Combining Classes
This is one of the more useful CSS techniques I’ve learned, and seeing as I picked it up somewhat later than I would have liked, I’m sure there are others who are not simplifying their CSS by breaking it up in this way.
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Top Children’s Hospitals: Are Their Home Pages in the Same League?
Every couple of years CHILD Magazine surveys the nation’s children’ hospitals and ranks the top 25. Well, actually they rank the top 10 and then have 15 runners up, but since Seattle Children’s (where I work) came in at #13 this year, I’m going to say they rank the top 25 – any problem with that?
I thought it would be interesting to see whether the home pages (and by implication, the websites) of these esteemed pediatric medical establishments were of a similar caliber in terms of the validity of their code.
Read MoreWhat is Happening to CSS?
As I was reading “How To Clear Floats Without Structural Markup” at Position is Everything I started to wonder what is happening with CSS at the moment?
Read MoreIE Conditional Comments
So, I’m a bit behind the times, but this week, as I was struggling with IE box model bugs for a site I’m creating, I came across Internet Explorer’s conditional comments feature for the first time.
Image Replacement Techniques and Issues
Dave Shea provides an excellent round up of the various image replacement techniques currently in use.
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