Chamli Tennakoon :: Art Director | Graphic Designer | Web Designer | Branding | Corporate ID | Package Design | in Orange County » CSS http://www.chamli.com Web Design in Los Angeles Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:07:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without http://www.chamli.com/53-css-techniques-you-couldn%e2%80%99t-live-without http://www.chamli.com/53-css-techniques-you-couldn%e2%80%99t-live-without#comments Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:36:11 +0000 admin http://www.chamli.com/?p=129 CSS is important. And it is being used more and more often. Cascading Style Sheets offer many advantages you don’t have in table-layouts – and first of all a strict separation between layout, or design of the page, and the information, presented on the page. Thus the design of pages can be easily changed, just replacing a css-file with another one. Isn’t it great? Well, actually, it is.

Over the last few years web-developers have written many articles about CSS and developed many useful techniques, which can save you a lot of time – of course, if you are able to find them in time. Below you’ll find a list of techniques we , as web-architects, really couldn’t live without. They are essential and they indeed make our life easier. Let’s take a look at 53 CSS-based techniques you should always have ready to hand if you develop web-sites. Links checked: June/11 2008.

You might want to take a look at the article Powerful CSS-Techniques For Effective Coding.

1. CSS Based Navigation

CSS-Technique

2. Navigation Matrix Reloaded

CSS-Technique

3. CSS Tabs

CSS-Technique

4. CSS Bar Graphs (CSS For Bar Graphs)

CSS-Technique

5. Collapsing Tables: An Example

CSS-Technique

6. Adam’s Radio & Checkbox Customisation Method

CSS-Technique

7. CSS Image Replacement

CSS-Technique

8. CSS Shadows (CSS Shadows Roundup)

CSS-Technique

9. CSS Rounded Corners Roundup (Nifty Corners)

CSS-Technique

10. Drop Cap – Capital Letters with CSS

CSS-Technique

11. Define Image Opacity with CSS

CSS-Technique

12. How to Create a Block Hover Effect for a List of Links

CSS-Technique

13. Pullquotes with CSS (Automatic Pullquotes with JavaScript and CSS

CSS-Technique

14. CSS Diagrams

CSS-Technique

15. CSS Curves

CSS-Technique

16. Footer Stick allows for the footer of a Web page to appear either at the bottom of the browser window or the bottom of the Web page content – whichever is visually lowest.

CSS-Technique

17. CSS Image Map

CSS-Technique

18. CSS Image Pop-Up

CSS-Technique

19. CSS Image Preloader

CSS-Technique

20. CSS Image Replacement for Buttons

CSS-Technique

21. Link Thumbnail

CSS-Technique

22. CSS Map Pop

CSS-Technique

23. PHP-based CSS Style Switcher

CSS-Technique

24. CSS Unordered List Calender (CSS Styled Calender)

CSS-Technique

25. CSS-Based Forms: Techniques

CSS-Technique

26. CSS-Based Tables: Techniques

CSS-Technique

27. Printing Web-Documents and CSS

CSS-Technique

28. Improved Links-Display for Print-Layouts with CSS

CSS-Technique

29. CSS-Submit Buttons

CSS-Technique

30. CSS Teaser Box

CSS-Technique

31. CSS Tricks for Custom Bullets

CSS-Technique

32. Ticked Off Links Reloaded

CSS-Technique

33. CSS Zooming

CSS-Technique

34. Creating a Star Rater using CSS

CSS-Technique

35. The ways to style visited Links

CSS-Technique

36. PDF, ZIP, DOC Links Labeling

CSS-Technique

37. Displaying Percentages with CSS

CSS-Technique

38. Image Floats without the Text Wrap

CSS-Technique

39. Let visitors decide, whether or not will they open link in a new window

CSS-Technique

40. Simple accessible external links

CSS-Technique

41. Zebra Table with JavaScript and CSS

CSS-Technique

42. Vertical Centering with CSS (Horizontal and Vertical Centering with CSS

CSS-Technique

43. Unobtrusive Sidenotes

CSS-Technique

44. Image Caption with CSS (Styled Images with Caption)

CSS-Technique

45. Dynamic Piechart with CSS

CSS-Technique

46. Format Footnotes with CSS

CSS-Technique

47. Hierarchical Sitemap with CSS

CSS-Technique

48. Snook’s Resizable Underlines

CSS-Technique

49. Switchy McLayout: An Adaptive Layout Technique

CSS-Technique

50. StyleMap: CSS+HTML Visual Sitemap

CSS-Technique

51. Custom Reading Width

CSS-Technique

52. CSS Alert Message

CSS-Technique

53. CSS Production Notes

CSS-Technique

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