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CSS Mania Features Raven SEO Tools

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

CSS Mania, one the Web’s most respected showcase sites for CSS design, today is featuring Sitening’s Raven SEO Tools.
Raven is the professional version of Sitening’s free search engine optimization tools. Our public beta version launched - please try it and let us know what you think.

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Applying IE 7 Layout Fixes Using Conditional Comments

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Have no doubt, the onset of IE7 will bring about new rendering bugs and issues. I’m already starting to feel the impact of it with a handful of websites. Fortunately, with much thanks to the company that helped create the fiasco, there’s an easy way to declare layout modifications specific to IE and its version.
Microsoft [...]

Posted in CSS, Internet Explorer, Web Design | 1 Comment »

Crash IE6 with Only CSS

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

I was recently designing and coding a new website for one of our clients. As always, I was coding it in TextMate and viewing it in Firefox and Safari for testing. I had finally come to the point where I needed to start up Parallels to view the site in Internet Explorer 6 (IE6). This [...]

Posted in CSS, Internet Explorer, Web Browsers, Web Design | 20 Comments »

How To Make Good Looking Forms Using CSS

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

Last year, Jon wrote about the benefits of designing for the web using standards based CSS techniques (i.e. no tables). He did a great job at discussing the benefits so there’s no need for me to rehash them here. However, one line in particular caught my attention. He says

The main argument for still using tables [...]

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Create a Modal Dialog Using CSS and Javascript

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

Back in my early programming days, before I switched over to web development, I spent most of my time writing software for Windows. I look back on that time with fond memories. 8-bit icons, OLE2, and no silly Start menus. With the recent Web 2.0 boom, many web developers have returned to their roots and [...]

Posted in CSS, Usability, Web Design | 35 Comments »

Creating Printer Friendly Web Pages With CSS

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

One of the most annoying experiences for Internet users is printing a page that displays undesirable web page elements. For example, users have no interest in printing out a web page that includes a navigation menu, and other design elements that don’t relate to the content they’re trying to capture.
A work around for this issue [...]

Posted in CSS, Web Design | 13 Comments »

End Form Element Layout Issues With CSS

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Seasoned web designers are all too familiar with form element margins. More often than not, the form element will break the layout on one of the major browsers, because of how the browser handles the default margins of that element. A common fix for handling the strange margin problems that occur is to move the [...]

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Going Tableless: Why CSS Should Be Used For Layouts

Monday, November 7th, 2005

There seems to be an ongoing battle between web designers about the use of tables in web layouts. Proponents for using tables refer to browser compatibility and quicker design time. While opponents claim that using tables for layouts doesn’t adhere to web standards and web accessibility. In order to better understand how this controversy got [...]

Posted in CSS, Web Accessibility, Web Design | 32 Comments »

CSS Styles Without IDs And Classes

Monday, October 17th, 2005

Many designers feel like they have to add an ID or Class to every HTML element they want to apply a style to. Fortunately, with CSS, you don’t have to. CSS can apply styles to HTML elements without using an ID or Class.
Styles can be applied to any HTML element, including the BODY, TABLE, TD, [...]

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