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Quick Tip: Practical CSS Shapes

Tutorial • Intermediate

A common design technique lately is to create a fold effect, where it appears as if a heading is wrapping behind its container. This is generally achieved...

Jeffrey Way • 13 May 2010
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The State of CSS3 in Email Templates

Tutorial • Intermediate

On the heels of some of our recent findings regarding the state of CSS in email, I reckoned it was high time to shake things up a bit. So here goes - CSS3 in...

Ros Hodgekiss • 6 May 2010
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Quick Tip: Ever Thought About Using @Font-face for Icons?

Tutorial • Beginner

The evolution of Internet technologies never ceases to amaze. Seemingly daily, new concepts and techniques are being thought up by creative and talented...

Wayne Helman • 23 Apr 2010
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The Intricacy of Simplicity: CSS3

Tutorial • Intermediate

Ever wondered how a particular effect was achieved in a web design, and, after zooming in several clicks, you found that the author added several subtle...

Jeffrey Way • 21 Apr 2010
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Quick Tip: Understanding CSS Specificity

Tutorial • Intermediate

The "C" in CSS stands for cascading. This means that that style rules that show up later in the stylesheet will override rules which appear earlier. But this...

Andrew Burgess • 14 Apr 2010
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Quick Tip: How to Target IE6, IE7, and IE8 Uniquely with 4 Characters

Tutorial • Beginner

Two months ago, I, in a video quick tip, demonstrated how to use the underscore and star hacks to target Internet Explorer 6 and 7 in your stylesheets. In...

Jeffrey Way • 29 Mar 2010
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Quick Tip: Understanding CSS3 Gradients

Tutorial • Intermediate

Creating an image only for the purpose of displaying a gradient is inflexible, and is quickly becoming a bad practice. Unfortunately, at the time of this...

Jeffrey Way • 24 Mar 2010
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Quick Tip: How to Work with @Font-face

Tutorial • Beginner

Due to the fact that @font-face can be a bit overly complicated, it hasn't caught on quite as much as it should. Once you start reading about licensing,...

Jeffrey Way • 9 Feb 2010
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How to Design and Code a Flexible Website

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this tutorial, we're going to be designing and coding a simple blog-style web-page. We'll pay special attention to making our design flexible and...

Tessa Thornton • 1 Sep 2009
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Using Compass and Sass for CSS in your Next Project

Tutorial • Intermediate

Sass could potentially be called CSS 2.0; it has some really nifty features that allow you to write your code in less time and with more flexibility. In...

Alex Coomans • 31 Aug 2009
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HTML 5 and CSS 3: The Techniques You'll Soon Be Using

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this tutorial, we are going to build a blog page using next-generation techniques from HTML 5 and CSS 3. The tutorial aims to demonstrate how we will be...

Mads Kjaer • 7 Jul 2009
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CSS Fundamentals: Containing Children

Tutorial • Intermediate

I've received multiple requests for simpler CSS tutorials that teach the tricky fundamentals. This will serve as the first entry in a series that will...

Jeffrey Way • 3 Jul 2009