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Set Your Background Color
I’ve never been one to tinker with the default style options in any of my chosen web browsers (i.e. Safari & Firefox). However, after witnessing a number of flaming sessions (i.e. conversations) on the various CSS galleries where a site that’s been featured has not set the background color and gets flamed hard for it, I decided to give it a go.
To me it never seemed like a very big deal. So, I decided to surf the web for a while without my default background color of #FFFFFF just to see what all the fuss is about. I figured I’d be tame and go with #CCCCCC. This just in—whoa, it’s ugly out there people.
05/10/2006 | Keep Reading | Comments [2]
Drop your extra anchors everyone
So now that we’ve all agreed scrolling is ok, and that it’s ok to have content below the fold, I think it’s safe to introduce a technique I’ve rarely heard talked about: using existing page elements as link anchors for navigation around long pages.
If you’re looking for ways to keep your HTML mark-up lean and semantic this is one more technique to take note of. I’m sure most of you know about this already, so it’s not news. But for those that don’t, or those that have simply forgotten, here’s a great technique we can use for intra-page navigation.
10/08/2005 | Keep Reading | Comments [11]
Pushing CSS - Disco:Gangsta Fever
Rob Mientjes’ Pushing CSS Contest was a wonderful challenge, not to mention a great deal of fun. And I really must thank Rob and three judges – John Oxton, Jeff Croft, and Jina Bolton, as well as everyone who entered for making it such a positive experience. Indeed, there were some great entries, and it’s great to see so much interest out there in showing how far CSS can go (without Javascript, Flash, and all the rest of it). I am also very honored to have been chosen as the winner. As the rules stated, it is up to me to tell everyone how I came up with my design, as well as how I implemented the CSS. So here I go…
08/12/2005 | Keep Reading | Comments
- May 2006
- 10: Set Your Background Color
- October 2005
- 08: Drop your extra anchors everyone
- August 2005
- 12: Pushing CSS - Disco:Gangsta Fever