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2004 August 1 • business, ccs

CSS, Standards, Semantic Markup, and the Bottom Line: Money

article: One of the challenges in creating, maintaining, or redesigning a website, especially with larger companies, is that all too often the people making the major decisions are clueless about what matters the most with websites behind the scenes. Content is what truly matters the most, but the way it's delivered can unnecessarily cost a whole lot more with bandwidth, page load times, visitor satisfaction, and ultimately with lost revenue. [credit: Brainstorms and Raves]

2004 August 1 • ccs, code

Pixels as Relative Units of Measure

article: While pixels are technically a relative unit, they are relative to monitor resolution and not browser settings, and are not useful to size text. [credit: box of chocolates]

2004 July 28 • ccs, design

Throwing Tables Out The Window

article: From a presentation at Digital Design World titled, “No More Tables, CSS Layout Techniques”a review of the proper use of tables, and a few pointers for styling them with CSS. [credit: design PRINCIPLES]

2004 July 25 • ccs

Designing a CSS based template

tutorial: A great series of articles on Designing a CSS based template. The whole series of articles are well designed and very well articulated. [credit: Digital Web Magazine]

2004 July 23 • ccs

Clickable Link Backgrounds

tutorial: A bulletproof unordered list of links, each with a unique (purely decorative) left-aligned icon that is referenced with CSS — but that is also clickable.

2004 July 19 • ccs

Competent Classing

article: Sound advice from Eric Meyer on using classes and IDs effeciently. [credit: design PRINCIPLES]

2004 July 17 • ccs

Efficient CSS

tutorial : So you want to write CSS more efficiently but are unsure where to start. How about starting with this. Common mistakes are pointed out and you will be shown how to avoid them. [credit: Lockergnome Web Developer]

2004 July 10 • accessibility, ccs

Learn: Accessible Forms

tutorial: Get started with accessible forms at the Web Standards Project's excellent write-up. [credit: css help pile]

2004 July 10 • ccs

Filtering CSS

article: A new method to filtering those pesky IE5/Mac hacks. [credit: design PRINCIPLES]

2004 June 28 • ccs, code

Designing a CSS based template

tutorial: The first part of a step-by-step tutorial on creating a CSS based page template. [credit: 456 Berea Street]

2004 June 28 • ccs, process

Strategies for Long-Term CSS Hack Management

article: Some sound advice to managing all your CSS hacks. [credit: design PRINCIPLES]

2004 June 17 • ccs

CSS Teaser or Lead-in Box

tutorial: A method for making a teaser or lead-in box with CSS. [credit: webgraphics]

2004 June 6 • ccs, design

CssBeauty

website: A new CSS Design Showcase.

2004 June 6 • ccs, design

CSS Vault v.3

website: Designers site for quality discussions on CSS and design. [credit: Whitespace]

2004 May 29 • ccs

CSS1 and CSS2 browser support info

resource: Browser support information for all of CSS1 and CSS2 code, divided into a number of logical parts.

2004 May 29 • ccs

Onion Skinned Drop Shadows

tutorial: Demonstrates yet another way of creating drop shadows with CSS. [credit: 456 Berea Street]

2004 May 29 • ccs, resources

www.positioniseverything.net

website: A comprehensive resource for CSS designers. It covers a lot of CSS bugs and workarounds - and best of all it provides practical examples to back up the theory. [credit: Read/Write Web]

2004 May 24 • ccs, code

Separating Behavior and Presentation

article: The benefits of CSS over Javascript. [credit: design PRINCIPLES]

2004 May 9 • ccs, resources

Online CSS Optimizer

resource: Optimize your stylesheets.... [credit: fullasagoog.com DreamweaverMX blend]

2004 May 9 • ccs, resources

CSS Property Reference

resource: All CSS Properties Listed Alphabetically is a very good reference site for those of us using CSS in our everyday design. The reference lists all of the property values and their support in different browsers.... [credit: fullasagoog.com DreamweaverMX blend]