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 ...
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 ...
Easy Oval Image Mask With CSS
The CSS border-radius syntax seems quite confusing. That's because the full blown expression can have eight values. But don't worry, to create a beautiful oval shaped image requires only one value. 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 ...
CSS to Use an Image as a Mask
Here is an easy way to create nice image text effects. A mask is an image with one color that is transparent, allowing an image behind it to show through, while a different color is used to block the parts of the image behind it. 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 ...
Code to Move the Scrollbar to the Left Side
You can easily move the scrollbar of a block-level html element to the left side by setting its direction property to rtl. However, there are a few other thing you need to do to make it work right. More ...
Display Overlapping Images on Your Webpage
In this article I show you how easy it is to use script to display overlapping images on your webpage where you can just change numbers to play around and arrange the images and overlapping to get it just the way you like it without having to repeatedly use a graphics application. 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 Text Drop Shadows
A text drop shadow is a nice effect, but it used to require you to use a graphics editor to create a image text. CSS3 introduces the text-shadow property which makes it easy to create text drop shadows without using graphics. More ...
How to Center a DIV Within a DIV
CSS example code to center a DIV within a DIV. More ...
Use @font-face Rule to Load External Fonts For Your Webpage
The CSS font-face rule allows web designers to load fonts from external sources, they no longer have to use one of the web-safe fonts. This article provides example code. More ...
