Entries Tagged 'CSS: Styling' ↓

I’ll confess that I’ve never been a big fan of nice titles. Sometimes they startle the hell out of me. Too often they obscure the text I’m trying to read when I inadvertently move my cursor over a link.

The exceptionally gifted Dunstan has fixed that:

I will now count backwards from ten

Usually I never put photos or other images in my weblog. I’d been meaning forever to find some way of styling them. I can’t credit the link that led me to “Easy CSS drop shadows” which proved to be exactly what I wanted.

A few people have noticed that the drop shadows I use on images here aren’t part of the pictures themselves, but are added on through the web equivalent of Magic Fairy Dust — CSS. I thought I’d explain how it’s done in case anyone else wanted to know.

Easy CSS drop shadows

Now if I can just figure out where my alt text went.

I’ve never been much able to visualize box borders – often they’ve been an unpleasant surprise. Copysense offers an online border testing utility.

This utility enables the sampling of Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) border styles, and creates the corresponding CSS code for implementation.

CSS Box Border Test

I ran across this recently but forgot to note the site so I can’t give credit.

Can you take a simple list and use different Cascading Style Sheets to create radically different list options? The Listamatic shows the power of CSS when applied to one simple list using samples from Eric Meyer, ProjectSeven, SimpleBits and others.

Listamatic

What if you could make a great looking CSS navigation bar that looked and behaved like an image swapping menu? And what if it used just two images to power an unlimited number of links?

Uberlink CSS Rollovers: Overview

” … a method of text sizing in CSS that actually works consistently across our browsers without offending designers.” Owen Brigg’s Sane CSS Sizes