If you’ve read my Vertical Semantic List-based CSS Navigation tutorial you’ll already know that a major part of web standards involves using mark-up (HTML or XHTML) for its intended purpose instead of purely to style pages. Part of this involves using lists to control navigation, because that’s exactly what navigation is — a list of [...]
Showing Code on Your Webpage
May 8, 2006 by Leave a Comment
The problem with a lot of ‘how to show code’ tutorials on the Internet is that they teach you completely the wrong things! I’ve seen countless tutorials telling people to wrap the code in a <textarea> or just leave spaces between the <, > and the tag name — ALL wrong. And no, not just [...]
Create a Tableless (CSS) Layout
March 27, 2006 by 20 Comments
I bet you’ve heard the coding obsessed web designers getting their knickers in a twist about CSS layouts, yet you don’t know the first thing about them, right? Obviously that’s why you’re here! Well, providing you have a little CSS knowledge and know how to separate style from content, you should find this tutorial a [...]
Converting From iframes
March 12, 2006 by Leave a Comment
While I’m reassured occasionally that iframes have their uses, I cannot stand them or their oft misused presence. If they’re not being blasted out in lime green because of incorrect transparencies, then they’re being given heights of 10,000 just in case — to prevent them from scrolling. This creates a seemingly endless vertical scrollbar, and [...]
Validate Your CSS
March 5, 2006 by Leave a Comment
CSS is generally a lot easier to validate than HTML — the validator doesn’t care if your CSS is lowercase, uppercase or a bit of both and it doesn’t care about the order in which you display things (although this sometimes effects the appearance of a page, because of the cascade). There are a few [...]
A Beginners Guide: What is CSS?
February 27, 2006 by Leave a Comment
CSS — Cascading Style Sheet(s) — the “language” used to customise and style web pages. Almost everything you see on this page has been customised one way or another by CSS. The size and colour of the font (the font itself!), the position of the content and sidebar, how much space between the two sections, [...]
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