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Progressive CSS Enhancement

A common - and desirable - technique for constructing JavaScript-based web applications is that of progressive enhancement: only providing capable browsers...

0 replies - 2194 views - 03/15/08 by John Resig in News

What is the opposite of "eye candy"?

This ugly little beastie recently appeared in NetBeans dev builds. Several people filed bugs and the developer responsible promised to make it less obnoxious...

3 replies - 781 views - 03/14/08 by Tim Boudreau in Articles

The Different Techniques for Applying the PNG Hack

Alpha-transparent PNG's, ("PNG-24" for those of you saving out of Photoshop) are an amazing thing for web designers. We can make a button with a drop shadow on...

0 replies - 3114 views - 03/06/08 by Chris Coyier in News

Equidistant Objects with CSS

Creating a horizontal row of objects that are equidistant from each other is another one of those things in web design that is much more difficult than it...

0 replies - 2292 views - 03/03/08 by Chris Coyier in News

UI design for Drupal modules

[Note: Thanks to Hubert Florin of Raincity Studios for allowing us to repost this article! --Joe]

0 replies - 680 views - 03/03/08 by Joe Lippeatt in Articles

Links of Interest

CSS Rand I was kind of confused when I first went to CSS Rand, because it just looked like some random nice website (not a gallery) then I figured it out......

0 replies - 950 views - 02/27/08 by Chris Coyier in News

(You want to try Drupal) Does this make you a sellout?

You walk out of a sales meeting with a new client holding a signed contract for a new community portal web site. Problem is, they balked at your 12-week...

5 replies - 1558 views - 02/20/08 by Joe Lippeatt in News

Using Weather Data to Change Your Website's Appearance through PHP and CSS

Using a little magic and trickery (read: PHP and CSS), we can change the appearance of a website automatically based on the weather outside, in real time! In...

0 replies - 4908 views - 02/16/08 by Chris Coyier in News

Designing the DZone Cross-Promotional Footer

DZone has recently rolled out a footer on their new "Zones" that I designed for them. If you want to check it out live, you can see it at any of the zones like...

3 replies - 1297 views - 02/12/08 by Chris Coyier in News

CSS Links of Interest

The Funkiest Ampersand's You Have Ever Seen Spoon Graphics has an awesome roundup of funky ampersands. I mentioned in the comments a cool thing to "use...

0 replies - 957 views - 02/05/08 by Chris Coyier in News

Better Email Links: Featuring CSS Attribute Selectors

What is an CSS Attribute Selector? CSS provides a way to style elements based specifically on attributes of the link, rather than the type of element alone....

1 replies - 2793 views - 01/22/08 by Chris Coyier in News

ID Your Body For Greater CSS Control and Specificity

Let's say you want to change the color of your links on just your contact page to red. They are blue on every other page, but it just makes sense for them to...

0 replies - 597 views - 01/18/08 by Chris Coyier in News

GridControl: A Grid Overlay System for Design Development.

Grids are a fundamental concept to design that transcend trends. Long after the shiny, sans-serify, reflective shadows of web 2.0 are gone, grids will still be...

0 replies - 1557 views - 01/18/08 by Chris Coyier in News