Dave Woods - Freelance Web Design Warwickshire

CSS3 Presentation

Jina Bolton’s slides from the Future of Web Design 2007 presentation are now available online to download and are definitely worth a look if you’re interested in CSS3

Probably the most interesting areas that she covers are the sections on advanced layouts and grid positioning but have a look at the presentation on her website, Creating Sexy Stylesheets as there’s some really useful examples as to how these modules will hopefully be used in the future.

Firefox scrollbar fix

If you’ve ever developed a site which is centrally aligned and only requires a vertical scrollbar on some pages then you’ll have experienced the problem in Firefox where the page appears to jump to allow for the appearance and disappearance between pages.

However, there is a fix which can force the scrollbar to appear all the time which prevents the jumping of the page and it’s really simple to implement.

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CSS Tabs Menu

Using an unordered list and a couple of images, we can use CSS to create effective tabbed navigational menu’s which this tutorial will demonstrate.

This demonstration uses the Sliding Doors technique which not only allows for long text but also enables the user to enlarge the text within their browser without breaking the tabs.

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CSS colour tip

Whenever I’m browsing the web and come across a certain website where something is interesting or I’m curious as to how something has been done, I’ll take a look in the source code and CSS to see how the designer solved a certain problem or created part of the page.

This morning I came across an interesting idea on 456 Berea Street whilst looking at the CSS created by Roger Johansson.

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