Category Archives: CSS

Coding Clean and Semantic Templates | webdesignerwall

Posted on 21/Nov/2009 by Vel

“If you are the guy who uses <div> tag for everything, this post is for you. It focuses on how you can write clean HTML code by using semantic markups and minimize the use of <div> tag. Have you ever … Continue reading →

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5 Simple, But Useful CSS Properties | webdesignerwall.com

Posted on 14/Nov/2009 by Vel

“This post is about 5 useful CSS properties that you should be very familiar with, but will most likely rarely use. I’m not talking about the new fancy CSS3 properties. I’m referring to the old CSS2 properties such as: clip, … Continue reading →

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Smart Columns with CSS & jQuery | sohtanaka.com

Posted on 14/Nov/2009 by Vel

The great thing about having fixed columns in a liquid layout, is that it will fill up the view port with as many columns as it can fit. But as you can see there will be certain viewport resolutions, where … Continue reading →

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Mega Drop Down Menus w/ CSS & jQuery | sohtanaka.com

Posted on 14/Nov/2009 by Vel

“According to usability expert Jakob Nielson, mega drop down menus tested to be more efficient for large scale websites. I decided to experiment with different ways of implementing this technique and would like to share how I achieved this method.” … Continue reading →

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How to: CSS Large Background

Posted on 18/Oct/2009 by Vel

“Since I posted the huge collection of Large Background Websites, I received several email requests on how to make a large background site with CSS. So, I thought it would be a good idea to share my techniques on designing … Continue reading →

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Starting with @font-face – via mezzoblue.com

Posted on 11/Oct/2009 by Vel

“I’ve been using Cufón off and on since writing about font embedding back in May. It’s a great hack, but browser progress since that time has been making me feel that the native CSS @font-face rule is becoming increasingly viable. … Continue reading →

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Negative letter-spacing

Posted on 8/Oct/2009 by Vel

I worked today on PSD to XHTML conversions and noticed that, only firefox work well with negative letter-spacing. So, I had to adjust space between letters a little … less than 1 px, so I placed in my css “letter-spacing: … Continue reading →

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TinyScroller JavaScript Scrollable Div

Posted on 3/Oct/2009 by Vel

TinyScroller is a basic scrollable div script at only 1.7KB. It can be used with any HTML and degrades gracefully. The styling is completely customizable through the simple CSS. More features will be coming soon. I have redesigned leigeber.com and … Continue reading →

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