CSS Link Specificity Love Hate is how I taught myself to remember the order. The acronym for the order (LVHA) just wasn’t terribly easy to remember on its own. It didn’t spell anything, or really give a sensical meaning to me. But Love Hate works.…
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Making Menus The Right Way Seems like a No-Brainer doesn’t it? Except that it is, apparently, not the case. I constantly see web pages with code like this for a vertical navigation bar: <a href="1.html">Link1</a><br /><br /> <a href="2.html">Link2</a><br /><br /> <a href="3.html">Link3</a><br /><br />…
Fun with Lists 1 There are a lot of ways to use Ajax, some of which are definitely better than others. People have been working on some great encompassing scripts that will simplify the handling of multiple Ajax uses on a website. A few of…
CSS – Generated Content After spending some of today in discussion with a friend on how to work with generated content in CSS, I’ve decided to take that discussion a bit further and go over the basics here. First, a great reference for generated content…
Addressing a Common Problem One of the questions that I have been asked a lot lately is: “How do I know when it’s appropriate to use embedded or inline styles?” The answer is one that I will give from my perspective and experience. In an…
CSS Reboot Complete! For those folks out there who don’t know what the great CSS Reboot frenzy is all about, let me give you an overview. It’s about taking some time to redesign with standards. We know it’s a good practice to keep the look…
Continuing with Style Now that we have seen the strenghts of inline CSS (remember that this is when you have the style in the line of the code) we need to broaden this further. While it would save you typing to get rid of the…
An Ode to An Old Friend “<font> has passed away. Kicked the bucked. Been buried. Sung it’s last hurrah. Let it be remembered for many long nights of ‘search and replace’ and for having one heck of an ability to pack on the kilobytes. We…
Beginning with the Basics Now that you have the file unzipped, you’ll see that it is a single index file with a images folder. That was not how it was orginally, as it included duplicate renamed pages (named for each of the links), so I…
Introduction [Note:] This tutorial is for people who have already been making websites. It is not for beginners. For this tutorial I will assume that you understand the basic uses of tags, images, fonts, can use a text editor (I recommend PSPad), and have overall…