Archive for the CSS Made Easy Category
We love lists and if you can compact information into a set of 10, then you've found the holy grail of blog post formats. Searching Google with the phrase "10 reasons" turned up 190,000,000 results.
There is something tight about a list of 10. It's long enough to convey a good amount of information but short enough to assimilate and remember. It just seems complete that number 10. So, in good fashion, what would a post on list-items be without rounding to the number 10.
List
October 9, 2007
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Today's post features the third Cascading Style Sheet(CSS) Video Tutorial on font usage. The video is just over 4 minutes in length.
One important aspect of web publishing is effectively applying font treatments to make text more readable. With a few adjustments to fonts, the readership of a site will find it easier to assimilate the important information shared with them.
The tutorial shows how to apply several different font attributes to create a more unique and design centered prese
September 12, 2007
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Today’s post features the second Cascading Style Sheet(CSS) Video Tutorial on creating horizontal tabs such as are used for the top navigation of this website. The video is 4 minutes in length.
What is most excellent about CSS is how a few lines of code in the styles greatly alters the visual structure of a page element.
With a recently purchased microphone headset the quality of the recording is greatly improved. Let me know what you think and what else you would like to learn abo
September 8, 2007
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A developer friend of mine turned me on to the Firefox Add-on Firebug. This tool, not only is invaluable for troubleshooting code for developers, it proved invaluable for revising thoughtsparks.net. This nifty plug-in allows one to walk through the code and stylesheet on the fly while looking at a page. In the sea of WordPress styles, it helped to sort out what div was affected and allowed for fairly rapid revision to my blog. I've used this tool in a more robust environment as well and can
August 19, 2007
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I just thought of a really nifty method to make visited links disappear. This may be handy for a check list to drop-off links as they are clicked. It may also be used to keep content fresh for folks if you combined it w/ a javascript.
Two Simple Step Process:
Add the following style to your CSS:
.DisappearingVisited a:visited{
display: none;
}
Apply style to list of links on page:
<span class="D
May 2, 2007
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If you publish a website or a blog, you are an expert in what you know. Or if you don't consider yourself an expert, most likely you know much more about your topic than many of your readers. With every topic comes a set of vocabulary that the reader must know in order to properly understand your message. While topic specific jargon is true of any area of focus, this is especially indicative of technical related sites. For many readers all of the acronyms seem like vegetable soup: What doe
April 30, 2007
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