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Sass - Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets
Ruby-based syntax for extending stylesheets using variables, nesting, rule block re-use and simplified inheritance. Compiles down to CSS.
css  framework  ruby 
march 2011 by adriancooke
Fluid images [Unstoppable Robot Ninja]
Ethan Marcotte’s approach to fluid images with scripted IE-fix support.
css  design  development  images  browsers  mobile  screen  size 
november 2010 by adriancooke
Basic Maths: a theme for WordPress
“Designed and developed by Khoi Vinh of Subtraction.com with Allan Cole of fthrwght.com”
css  design  wordpress  theme  mobile  grid  layout 
november 2010 by adriancooke
Shake the blues by overriding Yahoo! Mail’s default link color [Campaign Monitor]
Ros Hodgekiss on how to overcome the blue link problem with HTML email on Yahoo! Mail.
html  email  yahoo  mail  howto  design  css 
september 2010 by adriancooke
Premailer: pre-flight for HTML email
By following the principles of JFGI, I present the holy grail of HTML email authoring.
html  email  authoring  css  inline  gmail  clients  utilities  from twitter
september 2010 by adriancooke
CSS3 Generator
Works for Border Radius, Box Shadow, Text Shadow, RGBA, @Font Face, Multiple Columns, Box Resize, Box Sizing, Outline, Selectors and Gradients.
css  css3  tool  generator 
july 2010 by adriancooke
Unicorn [W3C]
Unicorn - “W3C’s Unified Validator”
theweb  markup  language  validation  html  css  standards  utilities  tools  from twitter
july 2010 by adriancooke
CSS3 PIE: CSS3 decorations for IE
Converts certain CSS3 styling features (e.g. border radius) into instructions that IE6-8 can render.
browsers  css  css3  ie6  ie7  ie8 
july 2010 by adriancooke
Cross-browser kerning-pairs & ligatures
Anthony Kolber on a CSS kerning option, available in some browsers, for better typography. Interestingly, this is not defined in any CSS specs. Apparently it is an SVG property.
css  design  web  svg  typography  usability  text 
july 2010 by adriancooke
jQuery Masonry [David DeSandro]
jQuery layout plugin by David DeSandro that enables uneven sized columns (length and width) to slot together as in print.
css  javascript  jquery  layout  plugin 
may 2010 by adriancooke
iPad orientation CSS [Cloud Four]
Jason Grigsby’s notes on targeting the screen orientation of an iPad via CSS.
css  html  ipad  iphone  ux  screen  orientation  howto  apple 
april 2010 by adriancooke
iBooks on the iPad, a first glance [Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis]
Liz Castro on the display of ePub-formatted books on the iPad.
css  html  xml  ipad  books  design  apple  howto 
april 2010 by adriancooke
iBooks and ePub [Threepress Consulting]
Liza Daly on the display of ePub-formatted books on the iPad.
css  epub  html  xml  books  ipad  apple 
april 2010 by adriancooke
CSSUtilities [brothercake]
James Edwards’ new JavaScript library for revealing CSS properties on HTML elements.
javascript  css  utility  html  front-end  development 
april 2010 by adriancooke
CSS3 please! - cross-browser CSS3 rule generator
Paul Irish and Jonathan Neal’s handy CSS3 rule-generator covering supported features in Chrome, Firefox, IE, Opera and Safari.
css  css3  tool  utility  javascript  browsers  syntax 
march 2010 by adriancooke
Setting rather than resetting default styling [Carsonified]
Thierry Koblentz on substituting the use of “reset styles” with a base stylesheet; along the lines of the progressive enhancement approach.
css  methods  styling  front-end  design  tips  reference 
march 2010 by adriancooke
CSS Border Radius
Jacob Bijani’s web page dingus for quickly fetching the border-radius CSS.
css  design  tools  utility 
march 2010 by adriancooke
Star rating control with jQuery [SitePoint]
Craig Sharkie’s step-by-step guide to making a star rating control UI element using HTML, CSS and jQuery.
development  front-end  css  javascript  jquery  user  data  ratings  howto 
february 2010 by adriancooke
Pure CSS3 animated AT-AT walker from Star Wars [Optimum7]
Explanation of the CSS3 animation techniques used to make this WebKit-only demo.
animation  css  css3  webkit  safari  chrome  tips 
february 2010 by adriancooke
WEFT-less [mezzoblue]
Dave Shea’s howto for using webfonts/font embedding with Internet Explorer, focussing on type conversion.
css  design  font  ie6  webfonts  howto  reference  browsers 
december 2009 by adriancooke
Web Directions and typographic structure [Mark Boulton]
Mark Boulton provides some categories for thinking about typographic structure beyond fonts.
css  type  content  design  structure  categories 
december 2009 by adriancooke
Building iPhone apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript [O’Reilly Labs]
Jonathan Stark on how to build new and refactor existing web sites that are optimised for the iPhone OS.
css  development  html  iphone  javascript  ipod  refactoring  reference  howto 
december 2009 by adriancooke
Invisible content just for screen reader users [WebAIM]
The right way to hide elements from sighted users but make them accessible to screen readers.
css  accessibility  screen  reader  tips 
november 2009 by adriancooke
Demo: an introduction to CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 [Marc Amos]
Documentation on and examples of supported CSS2.1 and CSS3 selectors.
web  development  css  reference  examples 
november 2009 by adriancooke
Hiding with CSS: Problems and solutions [456 Berea Street]
Roger Johansson on best practices for hiding elements using stylesheets.
accessibility  css  html  usability  mobile  web 
october 2009 by adriancooke
Amperbbreviations [Adactio]
Jeremy Keith’s method for using the best possible ampersand.
css  design 
september 2009 by adriancooke
Bulletproof @font-face syntax [Paul Irish]
Paul Irish on getting around browser quirks when embedding web fonts.
browsers  web  fonts  css  design 
september 2009 by adriancooke
Making Modular Layout Systems [24 ways]
Jason Santa Maria’s CSS grid layout system.
css  web  design  grid  layout  tools 
august 2009 by adriancooke
Chalkwork HTML royalty-free icons [mezzoblue]
Dave Shea’s “Chalkwork” icon set is now freely available.
css  design  interface  web  development  icons  free 
august 2009 by adriancooke
Firefox truncates long tables when printing [sides of march]
Brian DeMarzo notes a maddening and long-standing Firefox bug, along with a workaround. We found this still affects the latest versions of FF on Mac and PC (3.5.2 at time of writing).
accessibility  browsers  bugs  css  firefox  mozilla  print  tables 
august 2009 by adriancooke
Printing tables [css-discuss]
Jim Wilkinson’s tips on CSS rules for printing tables.
browsers  css  design  print  tables 
august 2009 by adriancooke
Gentium Basic by SIL International [Font Squirrel]
Free serif font in TrueType format. Used with @font-face on realtech.burningbird.net and loud.anotherquietday.com.
browsers  css  design  fonts  free  type 
august 2009 by adriancooke
CSS2 background-attachment on any element [quirksmode]
Peter-Paul Koch’s CSS2 background-attachment reference page. iPhone is not supported for this property.
css  design  iphone  reference  specifications 
august 2009 by adriancooke
Mike asks the CSS Guy about a scrolling trick with background images (Ask the CSS Guy)
Sliding background image effects based on Eric Meyer’s complex spiral demos.
css  design  tips 
august 2009 by adriancooke
Why Standards Fail [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report]
Zeldman on the “humanism” of the original CSS 1 specification, and the importance of finding a practical middle ground between simplicity and technical capability when constructing web standards.
accessibility  css  design  development  html  specifications  standards  web  xhtml 
july 2009 by adriancooke
ePub Zen Garden
Showcase of styles using the ePub format to mark George Eliot’s “Middlemarch.”
books  css  epub  html  markup  formats  standards  publishing 
june 2009 by adriancooke
Easing the path from design to development [24 ways]
Drew McLellan on handing off front-end prototypes to developers.
css  design  development  front  end  process  tips 
may 2009 by adriancooke
Dinky pocketbooks with WebKit transforms [Natalie Downe]
Natalie Downe on a CSS3 technique for making printable web pages into a folding pocket book from a single sheet of paper. She calls them “PocketMods.” Supported in Safari only, as far as I know.
browsers  css  print  safari  tips  webkit 
may 2009 by adriancooke
Link hover “glow” technique [Pat Nakajima]
Subtle animated link hover glow technique using jQuery by Pat Nakajima.
jquery  css  design  link  hover  colour 
april 2009 by adriancooke
Sliding boxes and captions with jQuery [Build Internet!]
Sam Dunn’s animated hover technique using sliding elements over boxes.
css  jquery  design  tutorial  ui  javascript 
april 2009 by adriancooke
Simple clearing of floats [SitePoint]
Alex Walker on the overflow:auto method of float clearing.
css  development  tips  workaround 
march 2009 by adriancooke
Supersleight jQuery plugin for transparent PNGs in IE6 [All in the Head]
Drew McLellan’s jQuery script that fixes PNG alpha channel transparency in IE6—making it work in both the HTML img element and in PNGs included via CSS.
css  development  ie6  png  jquery  plugin 
march 2009 by adriancooke
10 fixes that solve IE6 problems [SitePoint]
Good list of reminders about IE6 CSS issues by Craig Buckler.
ie6  bugs  css  tips 
march 2009 by adriancooke
this is a working library
Beautiful web site by Mandy Brown.
design  css  layout  writing  reading 
march 2009 by adriancooke
Using HTTP Headers to Serve Styles [Eric's Archived Thoughts]
Eric Meyer on using HTTP headers via htaccess to serve a watermark stylesheet on the testing server.
development  css  http  headers  htaccess  testing  tips 
march 2009 by adriancooke
Sprite Optimization [mezzoblue]
Dave Shea on optimizing image sprites for performance with high traffic sites.
design  development  css  image  performance  optimisation  ui 
march 2009 by adriancooke
fecklessmind - How to create perfect form markup and style it with CSS
Anatoli Papirovski on a general approach to form markup and CSS styling.
design  css  markup  forms 
march 2009 by adriancooke
Ten great tools for working with HTML and CSS [CSS Orgy]
Includes a table markup generator, a couple of CSS cleanup tools, and a grid design tool.
design  development  css  tools  list 
february 2009 by adriancooke
Feedback on 'WaSP Community CSS3 Feedback 2008' [Eric's Archived Thoughts]
Eric Meyer kicks off a four-part reaction to WaSP's call for community feedback on CSS3. He's adamant about the need for a new layout model for CSS. Interesting that he doesn't like the CSS tables approach one bit.
browsers  css  standards  specifications 
february 2009 by adriancooke
A free font success story [Clagnut]
Richard Rutter on Museo and the magic of webfonts.
design  css  web  type  free 
february 2009 by adriancooke
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