09 07 09

Barber

Although CSS can do lot’s of stuff by itself, it also relies a lot on images. Websites without bullets, icons and backgrounds aren’t that lovely to see.

When we slice and dice our designs in order to create a website, optimizing the images is a key factor when we are focusing in our site’s response time.

Be clever with image file formats and you’ll go a step further in optimizing your site.

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07 07 09

Stopping the CSS positioning panic (Part 2)

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Note: This article is meant for CSS beginners.

On Part 1 we focused on static, relative, absolute and fixed positioning. In the second part we will focus on the float property.

The float property is definetly one of the most used properties in CSS. You really have to know it because is vital to create our layouts.

Let’s get started…

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03 07 09

Stopping the CSS positioning panic (Part 1)

The CSS Batman

Note: This article is meant for CSS beginners.

For quite some time I’ve been noticing that when my friends begin to dig their noses on CSS they are easily freaked out and frustrated with CSS positioning.

Static, relative, absolute, fixed, float. What the hell is all this!

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01 07 09

One of my favorite sites is definetely DeviantArt. Is a great source of inspiration when you are a bit lost, and it also has a great amount of brush resources and free stock photography. So check it out :)

I was browsing the site yesterday and I wanted to know how they were doing their rounded corners. So I grabbed my little friend Firebug (if you don’t have it, go and get it. It’s definitely a must) and I inspected them. I found what they were doing very interesting and I wanted to share it with you.

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