Simple CSS 3D Button

January 28th, 2008 · 12:56 pm  →  CSS  Web Design

Creating 3D buttons is usually dealt with by using images but within this very simple tutorial, I’ll explain how regular links can be styled to look like 3D buttons using just a little CSS.

CSS Faux Columns

January 24th, 2008 · 4:24 pm  →  CSS  Web Design

CSS layouts are extremely flexible but trying to replicate a layout that was easy with tables sometimes causes a few problems. The method of different columns being filled with solid colour and appearing the same height isn’t so easy with CSS but this is where CSS Faux Columns can become extremely useful.

CSS Rounded Corners Revisited

January 21st, 2008 · 1:36 pm  →  CSS  Web Design

Rounded corners within web design has been a trend for some time now and there are various ways of creating this effect. This tutorial will demonstrate how it can be achieved by using just one circular image and a little CSS knowledge.

CSS Floats Without Text Wrap

January 21st, 2008 · 11:21 am  →  CSS  Web Design

Understanding floats is extremely important when creating CSS layouts. One of the trickiest issues when dealing with floats is stopping text from wrapping underneath a floated element.
Within this short tutorial, I’ll explain how this can easily be accomplished with no extra HTML markup required.

100% Height Layout Using CSS

January 18th, 2008 · 12:25 pm  →  CSS  Web Design

CSS layouts don’t have to be complicated but sometimes the things that should be simple and easy to do seem impossible at first.
Within this tutorial, I’ll explain how 100% height can be achieved cross browser, using CSS.

IE6 – CSS Bugs and Fixes Explained

January 16th, 2008 · 12:56 pm  →  CSS  Web Design

I hear about designers and developers pulling their hair out all the time saying that Internet Explorer 6 doesn’t do what they expect or that it’s adding hours to development time but is it really the huge problem that everyone makes it out to be or does it just need a little more understanding?
In this [...]

Min and Max Width 3 Column Fluid CSS Layout

January 14th, 2008 · 12:19 pm  →  CSS  Web Design

Fluid layouts are often shunned by designers due to the perceived lack of control of the design. If the browser window is too small then content can look squashed whilst a large browser window can lead to readability issues due to long lines of content. However, CSS provides us with possibilities to control our design [...]

Float and Clear: A comparison of CSS clearing techniques

December 12th, 2007 · 5:33 pm  →  CSS  Web Design

I’m sure that anyone who is involved with CSS development will have had to clear floated elements at some stage, but what different techniques can be used and more importantly which one prevails over the others?

3 Column Fluid CSS Layout

December 10th, 2007 · 12:19 pm  →  CSS  Web Design

If you haven’t already had a look at the 2 Column Fluid CSS Layout tutorial then you may want to work through that one first as this tutorial is only a slight modification of all the rules already defined for that layout and just requires a few minor adjustments.

CSS Image Replacement

December 5th, 2007 · 3:49 pm  →  CSS  Web Design

Quite often when designing a website we’ll want to replace a heading using an image and there are various techniques to do this but what’s the best method for using a CSS image replacement technique?