CSS Resources Around the Web
A List Apart (ALA) has a new article, CSS Swag: Multi-Column Lists, that discusses how to create multiple column ordered and unordered lists. A List Apart also has another new article, Introducing the CSS3 Multi-Column Module. I would recommend this article to students who have experimented with CSS columns and who are interested in what future implementations of CSS may offer.
There are a few “top” CSS tip lists that are circulating around the sites that include “popular” lists (Del.icio.us):
Sitepoint’s My Top Ten CSS Tricks - this includes tips on the following:
- Block vs. Inline Level Elements
- Another Box Model Hack Alternative
- Minimum Width for a Page
- IE and Width and Height Issues
- Text-transform Command
- Disappearing Text or Images in IE?
- Invisible Text
- CSS Document for Handhelds
- 3-d Push Button Effect
- Same Navigation Code on Every Page
Pete Freitag offers the CSS Techniques Roundup - 20 CSS Tips and Tricks, which is a collection of popular CSS articles from around the web.
Web Graphics offers Maintainable CSS an article that provides tips on writing CSS that will be reusable with new browser implementations.
“The first issue of Treehouse, a PDF magazine dedicated to web development, will be released in early October 2005. To celebrate the creation of something new and good, the Particletree team is giving away the inaugural issue for free. You can sign-up on the site to be notified when the publication is released.”
InetWord offers an online, WYSIWYG HTML editor. This looks pretty good, but it only works in Internet Explorer 6.0 or earlier. You can sign up for a free account today.
I get a lot done, but I am a procrastinator when it comes to getting things that I don’t necessarily “enjoy” doing. Overcoming Procrastination offers tips on how to overcome the procrastination bug.
Then there’s Ten CSS tricks you may not know and Ten more CSS tricks you may not know. Courtesy of Trenton Moss of Webcredible.
Cordially, David H.
September 29th, 2005 at 10:36 pm