I have been testing my sites with the new IE8 beta, and had a pretty major shock on my main site when it didn’t render well. I honestly hadn’t expected any problems, but then again, I didn’t expect them to REMOVE or BREAK functionality that…
Category: CSS
There are a lot of ways to create a tangled web within your CSS code. Using hacks are probably still at the top of the list, but a very close runner up is the use of the !important declaration within your CSS. (Of course, in…
The judging is over, the results are in, and now every WordPress/Sandbox fan has new designs to play with! I enjoyed being a judge for this competition, though it was definitely not easy to pick which my favorites were out of 46 submitted designs. Huge…
I got an email recently that inspired me to post a little reminder about web design: Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ~Confucius The email detailed the difficult journey a new-to-DOM person was having learning how to walk the DOM…
An Excellent article called CSS Best Practices from Evotech.net. Definitely worth bookmarking if you’re new to web design or CSS. I would add a few small things, such as in the ‘Starting with a Clean Slate’ section: Wipe all margins on block elements by setting…
If you have followed along through Step 1, then you have the HorizMenu.psd file to continue with. To refresh your memory, we left off with our HorizMenu looking like this: Now, you may be wondering why that extra space is there at the bottom. Why…
There is a new design competition started by the Weblog Tools Collections that has stirred up a little curiosity. This is design, ala CSS Zen Garden style, will ask designers to create styles for the new version of the WordPress Sandbox theme from PlainText.org. That…
One of my least favorite things in web design are all graphical css menus. I utterly despise them, and the reasons are endless. Depending on what is involved, they can be a real pain to make accessible at times. They tend to require a strong…
I think that it’s a lost art in many ways – coding by hand. With all the visual point-and-click editors out there, few people code from scratch anymore. Personally, I prefer hand coding and will until a visual editor comes along that works well enough…
Why? I think that has been the question echoing over and over in my mind. Why? Why? Why was this choice made? Before I continue ranting about how Microsoft seems to get a thrill out of coming up with one developer-frustrating bit of news each…