Posted in CSS, HTML5, JavaScript/jQuery, Usability on May 10th, 2012
Who doesn’t love free stuff? Most of the time the saying “you get what you pay for” applies, but every once in awhile sometimes you do get a free lunch. Whether it’s testing jQuery code, checking to see how a site looks in different browsers, or coming up with a color scheme, the following free [...]
Posted in CSS on May 1st, 2010
While the term “pseudo-class” might not instantly evoke what it refers to, virtually every web developer and web designer has used them. The classic example of pseudo-classes involves styling links based on the state that they’re in (hover, active, etc.). CSS3 introduces over a dozen new CSS pseudo classes to give you more control over [...]
Posted in CSS, JavaScript/jQuery, PHP, Usability on Mar 1st, 2010
Recently I was checking out some code written many years ago by another developer, and as I was hacking it up to be re-used, I started wondering why he had decided to split up his lines of code so that they were very narrow. Comments, for example, that were a few sentences long ended up [...]
Posted in CSS, Rants, Uncategorized on Jan 28th, 2010
Wow, what a week. For a web developer/designer/tech lover there has been a lot of new information in this first month of 2010 (at last we get to use the word “twenty” to describe the new decade — twenty-oh-four never rolled off the tongue). Not only did two of the best browsers get some nice [...]
Posted in CSS on Aug 1st, 2009
By accident the other day I came across the CSS3 target selector. If you’re unfamiliar with what pseudo class selectors are, the W3C defines them thusly: “The pseudo-class concept is introduced to permit selection based on information that lies outside of the document tree or that cannot be expressed using the other simple selectors. A [...]