Category Archives: CSS

Styling ordered list numbers | 456 Berea Street

Posted on 26/May/2011 by Vel

“I’ve always been annoyed by how difficult it is to style the numbers of ordered lists. Quite often a design calls for something other than just a plain figure – a different font, size, colour, background, whatever. The traditional approach … Continue reading →

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A JavaScript Content Switcher That Works Without JavaScript | impressivewebs

Posted on 9/Mar/2010 by Vel

Recently, while doing research/work on a completely unrelated topic, I came across the beautiful illustrations on Rype Arts, which are displayed inside of a JavaScript-driven content switcher. For some reason, I happened to visit the page with JavaScript disabled and … Continue reading →

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CSS bar charts—styling data with CSS3 and progressive enhancement

Posted on 6/Mar/2010 by Vel

Bar charts in CSS are neither very new, or very difficult. Using some pretty basic styling you can force lists etc into resembling graphs and charts fairly easily. Such charts, in their most basic form, work perfectly well in displaying … Continue reading →

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Button Height and a Broken Box Model

Posted on 6/Mar/2010 by Vel

When I figured out the workaround for line-heights in form buttons last week, I also discovered an interesting discrepancy (feature?) across all major browsers in terms of buttons and the box model. Check out this article for a more in-depth … Continue reading →

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Adaptable view – how do they do it?

Posted on 27/Feb/2010 by Vel

Adaptable view is a user interface design pattern which you can use to allow users to manually change visual appearance of content in order to fit their needs. This is usually done by switching styles (in web sites and applications). This … Continue reading →

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Forgotten CSS selectors

Posted on 6/Feb/2010 by Vel

Anyone who has been using CSS for any length of time has probably been frustrated by the lack of selector support in Internet Explorer 6. There are quite a lot of cases where a CSS 2.1 selector will let you … Continue reading →

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Use CSS Sprites to Beautify your WordPress Post Dates | wpbeginner

Posted on 29/Jan/2010 by Vel

Ever wonder how to super style your blog’s post date?  I am going to show you how to do this using CSS sprites in about 18 minutes. Editorial Note: This post is geared toward theme designers. Prior knowledge of CSS … Continue reading →

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10 Best Tutorials To Learn CSS3 | aext

Posted on 12/Jan/2010 by Vel

In the last few years, web design has improved significantly. There are so many tutorials out there to increase the skills capacity web designers and web developers. Some popular browsers such as Firefox, Safari already supported some CSS3 properties, and … Continue reading →

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