Blogging Pro had an article last week regarding optimizing CSS files in order to achieve a faster page load. I know a lot of the time removing whitespace can kill a lot of the file size. Of course it makes it difficult to edit later but for production use there are several programs out there to reduce whitespace for you making a smaller file size. Read the rest of this entry »

Scott Schiller has a pretty good tutorial on creating rounded corners in CSS. As he says in his post, a lot of people developing Web 2.0 and/or AJAX web applications have created layouts utilizing rounded corners. Read the rest of this entry »

Dynamic Drive has launched a section of their website dedicated to practical CSS codes and examples. The examples shown are similar to the CSS Navigation examples that I had blogged about a couple of weeks ago. It looks like they have a few tutorials but have a long way to go to call it a library, but since the site just launched it is a good starting point for people looking for some CSS tricks. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been hired quite a few times to skin different types of blogs software such as Wordpress. It’s actually pretty easy to do, but does take a little bit of time just because of the number of files that need to be edited to create a template. I recently came across a tutorial on The Undersigned with a pretty good explanation on how to go about creating a template for Wordpress. Read the rest of this entry »

CSS Play has created a font using pixels in CSS. While I wouldn’t use it for the text on the page it’s quite useful for verification purposes. Since a computer couldn’t render it as text the user could. For things like sign up forms this is very useful to prevent any form of spam from hitting your site. Read the rest of this entry »

There is a fun little demo of CSS animation using hovers on CSS Play. It’s a pretty simple example but it’s definitely pretty clever. He says it’s the first CSS animation that he knows of and I can’t recall any that I remember so maybe he’s right. In any case maybe it will invoke some inspiration in your designs. Read the rest of this entry »

Vitaly Friedman’s CSS showcase posts a pretty good collection of CSS navigation examples. The techniques showcase has examples of list-based navigation, drop down menus, and tabs. There are quite a few examples on there and it’s worth checking out. Some examples, since they rely heavily on CSS will not work in all browsers. As more and more people start adopting modern browsers, these navigation examples will be fully compatible. Read the rest of this entry »