Sideways Headers
August 26 2011
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Christian Heilmann had an interesting CSS predicament the other day. The idea was to make header tags rotated 90-degrees and align along the left of a blog of content rather than at the top.
Pop From Top Notification
August 25 2011
Have you seen that design pattern where a notification pops down from the top of the browser window, then slides away? We can rock that in pure CSS.
When (and when not to) use an anchor tag?
August 24 2011
Question from a reader on when using the anchor tag is the right choice and when it’s possibly OK to use another element for behavioral stuff.
Functional CSS Tabs Revisited
August 23 2011
Functional tabbed area with just CSS. The backstory, where we are now, and the awesome theoretical future.
Launch of Deals for Designers
August 22 2011
There’s a new area of the site: Deals for Designers with discounts on products and services from quality companies.
Latest Snippets
- Force File Upload Input Button To Right Side In WebKit
- Noise Data URI Image
- iPhone Calling and Texting Links
- HTML5 Article Structure with hNews
- Subdirectories URL Internally Redirect to Query String
- PHP Error Logging
- Add Data Attribute of User Agent
- Namespaced Javascript Template
- Force iframe to Reload
- Test if at least one checkbox is checked
- Turn On More Buttons in the WordPress Visual Editor
- Enable All Possible Post Formats
- Output Buffering
- Variable Variables
Latest Screencast
#101: Let’s Suck at GitHub Together
You are probably pretty aware of why using version control is a good thing. In case you aren't, I quickly go through that in this video. Then we get into the most basic thing we can possibly do: put a project onto GitHub. If you are like me, you don't particularly enjoy "the command line", but between that and a Mac GUI app, we manage to get it done.
Links from the Video:
Hot Links
Bootstrap →
HTML/CSS framework from Twitter (Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton). Pretty comprehensive: nice clean design and typography, grid system (fluid or fixed), form elements, buttons/navigation, alerts, tooltips, LESS support... I think a web app startup could do a lot worse than starting with this to get up and running quickly.
Don’t Fear the Internet →
Incredibly well done set of introduction to web design tutorial videos by Jessica Hische & Russ Maschmeyer. Kinda like my The VERY Basics video, but far more professional. Will be recommending this to every single person asking me how to get started into HTML and CSS.
Deck.js →
Pretty sweet slide deck framework that works in the browser by Caleb Troughton.