Posts Tagged ‘background position

Usability is a key feature when creating user interfaces;  it’s all in the details.  I was recently using my iPhone and it dawned on my how awesome the “x” icon is in its input elements.  No holding the delete key down.  No pressing it a billion times.  No attempt  to highlight the text and then [...]

Spritebox is a free-to-use web application which offers a WYSIWYG tool for creating CSS classes from a single sprite image. Image to be used can be fetched from a URL, uploaded directly or via drag 'n' drops from the computer. After that, it is possible to mark any parts of the image, define a class/id [...]

The Problem When we last redesigned Web Design From Scratch, we added a css rule which displayed a ticked checkbox image next to any article links which had already been visited, as well as changing the colour of the links to give them less contrast. This is a fairly commonly-used effect which makes it easy [...]

   One of the most useful front-end development techniques of recent years is the humble “CSS Sprites”. The technique was popularised by Dave Shea on A List Apart in 2004 with his article CSS Sprites: Image Slicing’s Kiss of Death. CSS Sprites are a relatively simple technique once you understand the fundamentals and it can [...]

There’s nothing like a subtle, slick website widget that effectively uses CSS and JavaScript to enhance the user experience.  Of course widgets like that take many hours to perfect, but it doesn’t take long for that effort to be rewarded with above-average user retention and buzz.  One of the widgets I love is Twitter’s “Follow” [...]


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