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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Add Style to Your Blockquotes
A basic blockquote is a bit boring, but there are a few style tricks that you can use to spice them up. In this article you learn how to set a border, how to use graphic quote images and a few other style tricks. 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 ...
Basic Introduction to Simple Responsive Design With Code
The growth in users accessing the Web with mobile devices makes that market impossible to ignore. In this article you learn how to use media queries and the CSS column-count property to quickly create a Web page that is responsive to today's mobile devices. 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
