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Ultimate CSS Menus Collection
0Here is Ultimate collection of Drop down menu, Professional Drop upmenus, Multilevel menus, Image menus, Tabbed Menu, Transparent PNGmenu, Sliding Menus using CSS.
Tips to design your site for mobile devices
0Some day ago my friend Lucas asked to me some suggest to design amobile version of his blog. So, in this post I want to illustrate somesimple tips about how to develop a mobile version of your site such as:choosing an URL address for your mobile site version, using a redirectscript for mobile devices, designing a mobile-friendly layout using CSSand HTML and (if you are a WordPress user) using a free WordPressplugin to develop your mobile site quikly.
Choose an URL address for the mobile version of your siteFirststep is choosing an URL address for the mobile version of your site.You have some options, for example, you can create a folder (mobile) in the root of your site so your mobile version will be publishet at this URL: http://www.yoursite.com/mobile.
…or if you can add custom sub domains to your domain, you can
IE CSS bugs when using floats and background-color
0If a div is given a background colour and contains floated items (floated using CSS’s float or HTML’s align on images), things can go very wrong in Internet Explorer – screenshot of my examples page in IE6, compared with how it should look.
Internet Explorer 6 sometimes hides some or all of the main content of the div (examples 2 and 5 have their titles missing); additionally in Internet Explorer 5 and 6, if the container is given position: relative, the floated items disappear (example 4). Contrary to other reports, no spacer div of any sort is necessary to provoke this bug – none is in use in the examples given here. Scrolling down to hide the missing section and then back up ‘cures’
15 CSS Properties You Probably Never Use (but perhaps should)
1A good way to visualize the clip attribute is if you take a piece of paper with a rectangle cut out of it and place it on top of a photo (just like using a Photoshop layer mask). The area of the rectangular hole, allowing the layer behind it to show through, is what the clip property will specify.
They’ve got a lengthy article all about clip and some examples of it in use.2. visibility visibility: (inherit | visible | hidden)From Macromedia
For practical purposes, the difference between these two properties [visibility and display] is that when you hide information using the visibility property, the browser creates the appropriate amount of space in the browser window for the information when the page loads. When you
Form Elements: 40+ CSS/JS Styling and Functionality Techniques
0Designing effective web forms isn’t easy, as we need to figure out more practical styling and functionality techniques to provide a great user experience.
Recently there have been a number of noteworthy techniques such as styling different form fields, live validation, Context highlighting, trading options from field to another, slider controls and more – using CSS and different Javascript libraries. Below we present findings of search to more than 40 tutorials and demos to showcase the capabilities and robustness of CSS and Javascript.
1-Styling dropdown select boxes- To style a dropdown select box is heavy work. This is an experiement on how you can style select box options items.
2-<select> Something New, Part 1-With a little DOM scripting and some creative CSS, you too can make your <select>s beautiful… and you won’t have to sacrifice accessibility, usability or graceful degradation.
70 Coding Ideas + 80 Design Tips
0It doesn’t matter, whether you’ve been working with CSS for yearsor have started to learn it recently. In both cases expert ideas forCSS coding and creative approaches for professional design areextremely valuable and can turn out to be life-savers in the designprocess. You might never use some of them, but it’s nice to have themright in front of you, on your desk, once you need them.
Recently we’ve published 35 Designers x 5 Questions and 70 Expert Ideas For Better CSS Coding,in which we’ve tried to cover the most important coding and designissues. Afterwards we’ve received dozens of e-mails, in which you asked us to pack both articles in .pdf-files, so they can easily be printed out for quick reference. And we’ve promised to do it. In every e-mail we’ve received.
So now
40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS …
0Nice Titles RevisedAn improved Nice Titles Tooltip Script with Accesskeys support.
A lightweight prototype based JavaScript tooltip
* Nice TitlesA classic. The script uses a background image.
AJAX-enabled Help-BalloonsHelp windows in baloon-design. AJAXified version is also available.
jTip – A jQuery Tool TipExtensive AJAX-based tooltips with numerous functions and presentation possibilities.
* jQuery plugin: Tooltip Enhances the jQuery Library.
qTipWorks for all elements, not only for links in most browsers – IE 5.5+, Firefox, Safari and Opera.
Form field hints with CSS Tooltipst’s a basic example of how helpful a little JavaScript and CSS can be in a form. Instead of the input hints always showing and potentionally cluttering a very simple form, only the
CSS Edge :: css tips tricks, Download free CSS templates, Design Styles
0I’m a huge fan of Photoshop, it’s a fantastic tool for pretty mucha anything, however when it comes to web design my favorite tool has to be Fireworks. I’ve been using Fireworks since I don’t know when but I can say that its vector capabilities combined with pixel precision positioning make very easy to design websites.
Also I used this design firstly to review a service that gets your design and code it for you. Then I decided that it would be nice to explain a bit of how I designed that site. So in this tutorial I will show you how to create a single page site for your personal portfolio.
Step 1
The first thing to do when designing a website is structuring. You will need to set where the elements of the site will be, the navigation, main content, sidebars, footer, and etc.. There