Thursday, December 23, 2004

Highlights of 2004 - 456 Berea Street

Take a gander at the great list of articles written in 2004 on Web Design and CSS from the folks at 456 Berea Street...

456 Berea Street highlights of 2004

Friday, September 03, 2004

Business Web Page

My Business Web Page, which has some CSS links on it, as well...

http://www.kwrcomputing.com/

Tuesday, July 20, 2004

CSS / HTML Guides from HTMLDog

Good tutorials...
 
CSS - Beginner
Assumes that you know as much about CSS as you do about the cumulative effects of sea squirt discharge on the brain chemistry of Germanic ammonites. The purpose of this guide is to teach the bare essentials - just enough to get started.
 
CSS - Intermediate
This Guide should not be that difficult, but rather build on the basics of the CSS Beginner's Guide.
 
CSS - Advanced
For those who want to push CSS to the extreme, highlighting methods that might not be immediately obvious to the intermediate developer.
 
 
And... just for a refresher...
 
HTML - Beginner
This HTML Beginner's Guide assumes that you have no previous knowledge of HTML or CSS.
 
HTML - Intermediate
This guide adds a few nuts and bolts, which shouldn't be particularly difficult as such, but will add a bit more to our understanding of HTML and enable us to do a few more things.
 
HTML - Advanced
The aim of the HTML Advanced Guide is to show how to fully exploit the features of HTML and how to optimise it for accessibility.
 
Standards Recap
This page is for those who know HTML, but might be unaware of the standards involved in future-proof XHTML and the philosophy behind the separation of meaning and presentation.
 
HTML Tags
This section contains information about all of the valid tags belonging to the latest version of strict XHTML.
 
... c'est tout pour aujourd'hui
 
 
 

How to hide CSS from buggy browsers

Table of CSS Hacks
Table grid listing CSS hacks versus popular browser versions.
 
How to hide CSS from buggy browsers
Listing of various methods used to handle browser issues...
 
Todd Fahrner's Workaround for delivering the best possible CSS
Write full stylesheets using the spec and the best implementation currently available (IE4) as guides. Don't worry about support problems in IE3/NS4. When you're ready to publish, separate out the small set of IE3/NS4-safe features into a separate "primary" sheet. Link your HTML documents to this sheet. From this primary, reference the remaining declarations in a secondary sheet via "@import".
 
The “Be Mean to Opera” Hack
This hack can be used to hide CSS from Opera (versions 5 and below)
 
How to hide CSS from Opera 7
The Owen Hack hides CSS from Opera 5 and 6, but not Opera 7 (released Jan 28 2003). However, my newly invented *7 hack hides CSS from Opera 5, 6, and 7 on Windows, and Opera 6 on OS X.
 
ToHackOrNotToHack
CSS Discussion.  There is a long running occasional debate over whether or not these hacks should be used.
 
CSS Hack
CSS hacks are clever tricks which take advantage of browser bugs to perform such magic as "hiding" Css Rules from specific Web Browsers or kicking browsers that don't follow the specs into line.
 
IE Box Model Hack 
This is the one !

Monday, July 19, 2004

How to Develop with CSS

 
How to Develop with CSS
 
(notes from the author)
 
This document does not rely on advanced CSS3 selectors (which are neither standard nor well-supported in browsers as of this writing). This document doesn't even talk about certain advanced CSS2 selectors...which are standard but happen to not be supported in the world's most popular browser.

This document is not a guide on how to format your CSS or HTML, and does not attempt to instruct you on how to use CSS to achieve cutting edge layouts. (For examples of some layout techniques, see Glish/CSS, FormDL, and CSS/Edge.)

This document assumes you know the basics about CSS1 (what a selector is, what a compound selector is versus a descendant selector, how values inherit, etc.), and provides a series of guidelines to help you develop with CSS properly.

Friday, July 16, 2004

CSS Tutorials from Max Design

Some excellent CSS tutorials, specifically geared towards working with Lists, Floats and Selects...  Have fun !!!
 
Listamatic
Can you take a simple list and use CSS to create radically different list options? The Listamatic shows the power of CSS when applied to a simple list.
 
Listamatic2
Well, you asked for them. Nested lists! Choose from one of the growing number of samples or submit a list of your own.
 
Listutorial
Step by step tutorials on using CSS to create background image lists, rollover lists, nested lists and horizontal lists.
 
Floatutorial
Step by step tutorials on using CSS to create floating images, images with captions, next and back buttons, drop caps, inline lists and more.
 
Selectutorial
The structure of rules, the document tree, types of selectors and their uses. Plus a step by step tutorial using selectors to build a 3-column layout.
 
If you have a moment, why not check out their informative Presentations & Articles page.  Includes... the Ten Questions series... Interviews with high profile web developers from around the world.

Thursday, July 15, 2004

What a list !!!

Wonderful list of CSS related links here...

Web Standards Link Bonanza As a result of the Great Book Giveaway Contest, 485 comments were collected, each with a link to a favorite article, web site or weblog entry relating to web standards.

I'm currently working my way through Eric Meyer's book Eric Meyer on CSS.  What a super way to learn CSS.  I recommend it highly !!!

Wednesday, July 14, 2004

CSS Links - Post #1

Today's list of some fine CSS related sites...

All My FAQs Wiki: CSS FAQs
Excellent CSS FAQ

W3C - Cascading Style Sheets Home Page
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents.

W3C - Learning CSS
Tutorials, books, mailing lists for users, etc.

W3C - CSS tips & tricks
A random collection of CSS examples and some help in using them.

W3C - How to add style to XML
The CSS2 Recommendation contains a brief tutorial on using CSS with XML

W3C - Dave Raggett's Introduction to CSS
Short guide to styling Web pages; will show you how to use CSS as well as alternatives using HTML itself. The route will steer you clear of most of the problems caused by differences between different brands and versions of browsers.




Monday, July 12, 2004

First Post !

I intend to use this spot for posting links to CSS related sites in an attempt to preach the benefits. Hope it helps in some way !