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Friday, October 9th, 2009
This week, I decided to show you how to create a three column design with a full width header and footer. This is a fairly standard design layout and should really help with productivity.
To begin, we need to denote certain global CSS design coding. So first we need to create the [...]
By: Christopher Heiss in CSS, Design, Web Development
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
To begin, I was looking for something more stylized for my date system in wordpress. I thought it would be nice to have it in a block but I didn’t want to cheat and simply make an image. So I came up with a nice solution.
To begin, I needed to decide [...]
By: Christopher Heiss in CSS, Design, Web Development
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
This week’s tutorial is a step deeper into navigation rollovers. Instead of having the roll over effect on the button the mouse is over, we will add it to all other navigation buttons.
To begin, we need to create our navigation button. First, we make a full navigation bar like below [...]
By: Christopher Heiss in CSS, Design, Web Development
Friday, September 4th, 2009
Today I am going to show you how, with a bit of cleaver CSS coding, you can make a fairly impressive simple page. Some of the best CSS designs have almost zero hard coding in the base HTML. In this webdesign, we are going to use a scaling background. Since we [...]
By: Christopher Heiss in CSS, Design, Web Development
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Today, we will be following the experimental vain of think for this weeks tutorial. Last week I showed you how to create a rollover animation without creating an animated flash. Now, I will be showing you how to create a gradient overlay on your header and title text.
By: Christopher Heiss in CSS, Design, Web Development
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
In the early days of HTML, site design was limited by what could be achieved with simple tables and frames. With the birth of primitive CSS in 1993, was the ability to build more unique sites. Though CSS1 was fairly counter intuitive, the following version CSS2, was much easier to use [...]
By: Christopher Heiss in CSS, Design, Web Development
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
You will find many ways to create an animated menu from using lengthy JavaScript code to the use of flash actionscripts. Though, with commercial sites in mind, it is better to use a cleaner HTML text approach along with CSS to display an engaging and attractive menu.
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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
Image mouseover effects are rife on the web. They add some extra design prowess to a project if carefully implemented. The bad side is that if done incorrectly, they can hamper the web site by applying slow loading pages and cross-browser compatibility problems. By using CSS, you can avoid this bad turn of fate by [...]
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Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Some times as designers, we don’t think about using tools to make our job easier. Either it is pride, or we are just don’t think about it, but we can benefit from tools. Here are some tools that will make your designer life a lot easier.
By: Derald in CSS, Design, Web Development
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
CSS coding allows developers to write web friendly code for their clients. Its best to stray away from the old methods of HTML with rollover images using JavaScript as that never produces clean optimized code. The old style OnMouseOut and OnMouseOver functions in JavaScript should be discarded in favor of a clean CSS look [...]
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