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Developing Streamlined and Efficient CSS Styles
In: Design
13 Jul 2011Advertise here with BSA CSS can be compared to the sculptor’s tool set when crafting a sculpture. We as web designers utilize all the assets CSS brings forth to create structured layouts for our websites. Over the years this design process has become more organized and fitted. Rules have been put in place for best-practice [...]
How To Use CSS3 Pseudo-Classes
In: web resources
30 Mar 2011CSS3 is a wonderful thing, but it’s easy to be bamboozled by the transforms and animations (many of which are vendor-specific) and forget about the nuts-and-bolts selectors that have also been added to the specification. A number of powerful new pseudo-selectors (16 are listed in the latest W3C spec) enable us to select elements [...]
In 2002, Mark Newhouse published the article "Taming Lists", a very interesting piece in which he explained how to create custom list markers using pseudo-elements. Almost a decade later, Nicolas Gallagher came up with the technique pseudo background-crop which uses pseudo-elements with a sprite. Today, on the shoulders of giants, we’ll try to push [...]
Edit Your Head (Styles)
In: web resources
8 Mar 2011When I saw Ian Lloyd tweet the words “Cunning. Like a fox. Neat little trick!” I knew I had to check it out, because Ian’s a sharp one. So I popped over to the linked CSS-Tricks article, Show and Edit Style Element, and checked it out. Cunning indeed! And yet, it immediately bothered me. See, [...]
Understanding Swiss Style Graphic Design
6 Feb 2011The Swiss Style of Graphic Design, as its name itself implies was developed in Switzerland during the 1950’s and became popular worldwide because of its precision, clarity, readability and typography. It is also known as the International Typographic Style. It became a new revolution in the world of graphic design and was instantly adopted by [...]
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