How to Color Alternating Rows or Columns in a Table
It can be difficult for your eyes to follow a row or column across a large table. In this article, I show you some easy CSS techniques to to add a background color to alternating rows or columns of a table to make it easier to read. More ...
How to Overlay Text on an Image
At some point you might find the need to put text over an image. The easiest way is to use a graphics editor, but with a graphics editor, if you don't like the exact location where you placed the text, you have to start all over. By doing it with style code, you can move the text around just by retyping a few digits. More ...
How to Use a Starburst on Your Web Page
A starburst is a useful advertising graphic that draws the viewers attention to exclamatory advertising message. It can be entirely graphic, that is, the starbust and the text are all in one graphic image. In this article, I show you how to use a starburst graphic with text that you type in. This has the advantage that you can change the text without editing the graphic. More ...
The CSS Box Model
One of the most important CSS webpage layout concepts to understand is the box model. Every element on a webpage is actually a rectangular box. Exactly how a box will display depends upon the positioning method used, which other CSS properties you set for the box and how you select the box. More ...
Spice Up Your Web Forms with Color and Graphics
You've used color and graphics to create a visually exciting Web site. Then you add a web form with the default font and gray and white colors. You don't have to have dull Web forms. In this article I show you a few tricks that you can use to spice up your Web forms. More ...
Easy CSS Animated Flaming Text
I provide easy code to create CSS flaming text animations. You are free to experiment with your own CSS property values. I bet you can create even better flaming text. CSS3 flaming text animations are fun and easy to create. More ...
Setting a Larger First Letter
Long ago printing was much more stylish than it is today. The first letter of the first paragraph was much larger than the rest of the text. If you want to publish fictional content on the Web, you can give your story an extra touch of class. Use the information in this article to set a larger first letter for the first paragraph. More ...
Style Your Imagemap Tooltips
Creating popup tooltips is extremely easy if you're satisfied with the style defined by the client operating system. With a bit of style code and a bit of Java Script code you can control the appearance of your tooltips. More ...
Flat Design and Ghost Buttons
One of the latest web design trends is flat design, and one of the expressions of this trend is the ghost button. This article provides easy code to create ghost buttons. More ...
Easier Expanding Menu Code
This article provides you with easier expanding menu code than a previous article did by losing automatic menu unexpand feature and added some easy CSS code to provide nice mouse over effects. More ...
Using Google Fonts
In the past web designers were restricted to a small group of fonts referred to as web-safe fonts. But now, you can easily link to hundreds, if not a thousand beautiful fonts hosted by Google Fonts. More ...
Add Background Color to a Heading
One way to highlight your webpage heading is to add a background color. This is very simple to do using the background-color property, but since a heading element, is a block element, you need to place a span within the heading tags and apply the background-color property to the span. More ...
