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7 Principles Of Clean And Optimized CSS Code

Some of you may remember the days when 30KB was the recommended maximum size of a web page, a value which included HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, and images. I find with every new project with even the... More... 180 Comments
Top 10 CSS Table Designs

Tables have got to be one of the most difficult objects to style in the Web, thanks to the cryptic markup, the amount of detail we have to take care of, and lack of browser compatibility. A lot of time... More... 297 Comments
5 Useful Coding Solutions For Designers and Developers

Often creative and truly remarkable design solutions remain unknown because we, designers, simply overlook them. Being busy with our own projects, we sometimes try to grasp the intuition behind... More... 103 Comments
Flexible Layouts: Challenge For The Future

The new generation of web browsers — Firefox 3, Opera 9.5 and Internet Explorer 7 — provides a feature which seems to save a lot of work for web-developers in the future, namely the Full... More... 113 Comments
Hyphenation with CSS

Hyphenator is a Javascript that implements sophisticated, automatic, client-side hyphenation. It inserts soft hyphens using an algorithm commonly known from LaTeX and Openoffice. Useful. More... Be the first to comment!
Block Quotes and Pull Quotes: Examples and Good Practices

Quotes are used to emphasize excerpts of text. Since users almost never read but scan we need to provide them with some focus anchors to fix their attention to the most important parts of our articles.... More... 85 Comments
8 fonts you probably don’t use in CSS, but should

Ross Johnson discusses 8 forgotten fonts you may use in CSS. Among them are Palatino Linotype, Century Gothic, Copperplate and Gill Sans — apparently, these fonts are installed on a variety of... More... 2 Comments
Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides

Once your latest project is finished, you are very likely to forget the structure of the project's layout, with all its numerous classes, color schemes and type setting. To understand your code years... More... 133 Comments
One pixel notched corners as used by Google Analytics

One pixel notched corners as used by Google Analytics. Instead of each option being boxed in a clickable rectangle, there is a 1px notch in each corner. It's not necessarily a curved corner, but it is a... More... Be the first to comment!
Hartija: CSS Print Framework

Hartija is a CSS print framework which is an attempt to unite best CSS printing practices into one single CSS-file. More... Be the first to comment!
Five web 2.0 CSS Menu Tutorials

This post is a compilation of the most visited posts on Antonio Lupetti’s Blog. It includes five CSS menu tutorials inspired to some Web 2.0 sites with round corners, scriptaculous and ajax... More... 3 Comments
Powerful CSS-Techniques For Effective Coding

Sometimes being a web-developer is just damn hard. Particularly coding is often responsible for slowing down our workflow, reducing the quality of our work and sleepless nights with pizza and coffee... More... 217 Comments
Frameworks Round-Up: When To Use, How To Choose?

by Chris Poteet Software frameworks provide developers with powerful tools to develop more flexible and less error-prone applications in a more effective way. Software frameworks often help... More... 113 Comments
Online Calendars and Date Pickers

Calendars always come in handy. Whether you are planning a schedule for your next project, manage your appointments or simply want to keep track on events you are going to take part in — to get... More... 69 Comments