Archive for the ‘CSS’ Category

When it comes to web design color is king. The theme or overall color scheme of a website can set a websites tone, help accentuate certain page elements, and in some cases significantly impact a site visitor’s level of interest in your website.

Unfortunately, selecting or more importantly applying a color scheme is not a quick or easy process. To change a site’s colors you must dig through CSS to make these changes and are forced to make the same set of changes again and again until you get it right. Wouldn’t it be great if you could test, change and update the entire color scheme and images of your website quickly, without digging through the CSS or code? With Theme-It you can!

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One of the first, and often overlooked, elements to decide upon when building a CSS-based website is the type of CSS layout you plan on using. Wait… There is more than one type of CSS layout? Yep, in fact there are 4 primary CSS layout types. Each CSS layout is based on a different methodology and serves a different purpose. As a whole, the different types of CSS layouts provide added flexibility when designing websites.

Let’s take a look at each CSS layout, define the advantages and disadvantages of each, and review various examples so you can determine which type of CSS layout is best for you.

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So you are in the process of learning CSS and you have come across two fundamental CSS properties for keeping space between box elements, CSS margins and CSS padding. They sound like they accomplish the exact same thing so what’s the difference? Are they interchangeable? Should you use one or the other?

At WebAssist we have a large community learning CSS from the ground up. So naturally we get a variety of questions regarding basic CSS properties. In an effort to clarify let’s take a quick look at the difference between the two.

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For many, learning CSS can be a challenging and time consuming process. The good news is that there are a large number of resources and tools, like our Dreamweaver extensions, to help you get a jump start towards better understanding CSS and creating great looking CSS layouts of your own.

Below is a list of six popular books for learning CSS. Whether your new to CSS or experienced, these books can help take your web design to the next level. Check them out and feel free to recommend any that you have used.

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Dec
22

Rounded Corners Using CSS3

by Justin Nemeth

Rounded corners are quite common these days across lots of websites. They are definitely appealing and help change it up from the normal square boxes a browser renders by default.

There are several techniques to create rounded corners (i.e. nest 4 divs and have a corner image aligned in each one), but my favorite by far is using the new CSS3 border radius property. Essentially, you can just use a few lines of CSS and create awesome looking rounded corners for an element on your webpage.

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Nov
23

Web Development Cheat Sheets

by Justin Nemeth

If you are a web developer, having some good “cheat sheets” is an excellent resource. There are some great ones available at Added Bytes for all sorts of topics including PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MySQL and more. They are all free to download and are available in PDF and PNG formats.

To give myself quick access whenever I need the reference, I added a folder with all the cheat sheets right to my OSX dock. You could do the same with Windows Taskbar shortcuts, or bookmarks in your favorite browser. Now any quick help I need is just a simple click away.