Posts tagged “css”

Relative Widths and CSS

“I’d love a proportional-width relative-positioning design for my weblog, but I’m too afraid of cross-browser compatability issues. I don’t want to spend more than a weekend figuring out how to get two columns to work in three browsers.” – Dan Sanderson I have to agree with Dan’s sentiment here. It’s a bear to get relative

DOCTYPE Explained

Finally! The latest issue of A List Apart includes a lesson on Fixing Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE. This is terrific and I’m going to fix my pages as soon as I can. ALA saves the day (again!).

Movable Type Modifications

Two Tricks from the MT Support Forum: How to Randomly Generate Entries How to Create a Printer-Friendly Template Of course if you are using CSS to its fullest, you can create printer-friendly pages by simply changing stylesheets. There is a tutorial at Evolt that explains how.

High-Pass Filter

Write better web pages, free design from content, and resolve CSS browser-compatibility issues with Tantek’s High Pass Filter!

Menu Rollovers in CSS

Brian Costner has compiled the best guide to designing menus using CSS Rollovers that exists to date. Check there for everything you need to know about creating a cross-browser-compliant css rollover menu.

Source Viewer

Source Viewer

A quick source viewer bookmarklet

Shunting NN4

Teambilly shows you how to send Netscape 4.x users to an alternate page. This is terrific. He even has a nice little message that explains to them what dorks they are.

Box Punching

How does one punch out the corner of an element and put something in the space created?

Pattern Matching

Excellent! I’ve finally found a simple explanation of selector pattern matching – all the > + and * you sometimes see in css – at BrainJar.com. So many things make so much more sense now …

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.