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 ...
Create Custom Horizontal Rules
Horizontal rules can increase webpage readability by providing a separation between different topics on a page. Horizontal rules are often used to separate a footer or resource box at the bottom of a webpage from the main webpage content. HTML by itself creates some pretty bland horizontal rules. But with CSS designers have the means to create interesting horizontal rules. More ...
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 ...
Easy Three-level Expanding Menu Code
In a previous article, I described an easy method to create an expanding menu similar to Windows Explorer, but with only one level of sub-menus. This article provides code for a similar expanding menu, except with two levels of sub-menus. More ...
CSS Arts and Crafts - Create a Graphic Cube Using the CSS3 Transform Property
The CSS3 transform property allows you to rotate, scale, move, and skew html elements. It be used to skew a div with an image background. In this example I create a cube using the CSS3 transform property. More ...
Write Style Rules to Make Them Understandable
If you're going to write quite a voluminous CSS-file, you should follow some general recommendations, which can help to avoid mistakes and to make the code understandable and convenient. For example write all the rules for every selector in the same place. 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 ...
How to Style a List
Lists are a very common structure found on Web pages. Many lists use the default styles, which makes them somewhat boring. In this article, I show you how to get control of your lists and how to use style rules to make them more interesting. More ...
Add Drop Shadows to Your Pictures
It's very easy to add drop shadows to the pictures on your webpages. In this article, I provide you with examples of how to use CSS to add drop shadows to your pictures. Go ahead and experiment with different drop shadow effects. Updated for CSS3. More ...
CSS 3D Rotation Examples
CSS level 3 defines 2D and 3D transforms and one of those transforms is 3D rotations. Just think of the beautiful 3D objects you can design using the 3D rotation transforms. More ...
How to Use a Pull Quote
A pull quote is a sentence or two extracted from an article and placed in quotes. The extracted text is used as a "teaser" to entice the reader to continue reading. By using quotation mark and background images along with choice of fonts, font size and color, you have infinite opportunities for creativity in the design of pull quotes. More ...
Easy Visual Effects to Spice Up Your Webpage
This article demonstrates how easy it is to use Internet Explorer's built-in functions to create interesting visual effects to spice up your webpage. Add only a few simple lines of Java Script code and you can create very impressive dynamic effects. More ...
