Monthly Archive January, 2008

Fascinating Free CSS Templates

These free CSS templates are learning tools that allow you to create a difference in your website. But these templates should be thoroughly tested before they are being used on a ‘production’ website.
There are three types of templates to be discussed:

Two column
Three column
General

Two Column CSS templates

Two-column flexible – this template can be used in [...]

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Categories: CSS Layouts, CSS Tips, Posted on January 17, 2008 by Choppr

How to Test different CSS Media

The main advantage of using CSS [Cascading Style Sheet] is that it allows you to create separate styles for different media types. This is one of the interesting ways to build printer friendly web pages as you just have to assign a different style sheet for the “print” media type.
How to test the style sheet?
The [...]

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Categories: CSS Tips, Posted on January 15, 2008 by Choppr

Styling the Browser Scrollbars

There is a way to style the scrollbar of the browser, it is not the best practice and it’s not supported by all browsers. I’ve used it with inline CSS frames and inline frames. Let’s say you have a div like this:


<div id=”inline-frame”>
<p>Some text goes here … put more text to [...]

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Categories: CSS Tips, Posted on January 14, 2008 by Choppr

Jan 14, 2008 Linkage – XHTML/CSS Frameworks

Here three of the most popular (X)HTML/CSS frameworks for creating modern and flexible floated layouts.

“Yet Another Multicolumn Layout” (YAML)
Blueprint
YUI Grids CSS

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Categories: CSS Frameworks, CSS Links, Posted on by Choppr

Inspiration of the Day

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Categories: CSS Inspirations, Posted on by Choppr

What is CSS Framework?

CSS Frameworks are unique prototypes of CSS codes that decrease your frustration of creating/recreating and retesting basic layouts on regular basis. Not only it makes CSS coding interesting, but also provides a simple way of skipping the tedious startup of CSS coding.
Layouts
To begin with, you should know the different type of layouts. Following are [...]

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Categories: CSS Frameworks, Posted on by Choppr

CSS Positioning: Fixing Frames with Fixed Positioning

Fixed positioning in CSS allows you to extract sections of the document, remove them from the natural document flow and make them blatantly visible so that they don’t scroll around with the rest of the document.
Working of Fixed Positioning
Fixed positioning was a common feature introduced in CSS2. You are only allowed to use absolute [...]

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Categories: CSS Layouts, CSS Tips, Posted on by Choppr

CSS Inspiration of The Day

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Categories: CSS Inspirations, Posted on January 12, 2008 by Choppr

Jan 12, 2008 Linkage – CSS Based Navigations

Here are some links with already made up CSS navigations, some of them very cool and slick.

Dan Rubin’s Superfluousbanter – Art of Navigation
Drop-Down Menus, Horizontal Style by Nick Rigby
Sliding Doors of CSS by Douglas Bowman
Suckerfish Dropdowns by Patrick Griffiths and Dan Webb
Dan Cederholm Bulletproof Slants
E-Lusion’s Free Menus

There are a lot more other methods so [...]

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Categories: CSS Links, Posted on by Choppr

Jan 12, 2008 Linkage – Cheat Sheets

Here is list with cheat sheets for Photoshop, XHTML, CSS, and Wordpress that might help you when you get stuck. All cheat sheets are available in PDF format so you can download and print them out.

Photoshop CS3 Shortcuts Cheat Sheet
XHTML Cheat Sheet
CSS Cheat Sheet
Wordpress Cheat Sheet

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Categories: CSS Links, Posted on by Choppr

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