Tag Archives: css

Progressive enhancement: pure CSS speech bubbles

Progressive enhancement: pure CSS speech bubbles – Nicolas Gallagher — Blog & Ephemera.
Wow, this is some impressive stuff!  Something I’m going to have to look into further for the redesign.

Unicode Characters for Class Names

Unicode Characters for Class Names | CSS-Tricks.
Cute idea, but I’m not sure how often I’d use it.  I prefer clarity to cleverness.

Eric Meyer: Javascript will save us all

Eric Meyer: Javascript will save us all | The Web Life | ZDNet.com.

Silhouette Fadeins

Silhouette Fadeins | CSS-Tricks.
This is a really neat idea.  I have no idea how, but when I get around to creating a new theme, this is an idea I might want to incorporate.  The subject of the tutorial here – a band’s website – really fits this effect.

CSS Variables with PHP

CSS Variables with PHP | CSS-Tricks.
An interesting suggestion.  I’ll have to think how and why I’d want to apply it, but definately worth a look.

Attention TAFE Students, again!

Ahem…
If you were at Friday’s class, you might recall a large portion of the class (i.e. all of it) was devoted to FTP.  We FTPed using Filezilla, using the built in FTP Client in Frontpage (and I showed you one in Dreamweaver too), and I showed you FTP from the Command prompt.
And then I handed [...]

CSS Sprites: What They Are, Why They’re Cool, and How To Use Them | CSS-Tricks

CSS Sprites: What They Are, Why They’re Cool, and How To Use Them | CSS-Tricks.

Hey Scott!

Hey Scott, it’s Scott. You know, you. Hey, I’m here in Jupiter lab at UOW using IE6. Thought I’d check my site out. Guess what? That meyer-css-background thing, it ain’t working.
I seem to remember somewhere someone talking about a fix. Maybe I should have paid attention. Yeah….
Okay, don’t [...]

The Style

So, let’s talk about the style. That’s the visuals – all the things you’re looking at.
This website is actually running software called “Wordpress“. It’s free, it runs on a language called php and a database called mysql. I’m hosting it through a crowd called mphosting but I’m running a copy on my [...]