Create a Cool Picture Frame Effect with CSS
By setting the CSS border-color property to a transparent color, and setting the background-origin property to border-box you can create a cool picture frame effect. 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 ...
Easy CSS Buttons
In this article, you'll learn how to avoid the need to make graphic menu buttons, yet still produce the same visual effect that graphics provides. You'll learn how to create graphical looking buttons by applying simple style rules. 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 ...
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 ...
How to Style a Table
The early Web was used to communicate data between Universities and one of the most common structures used for that purpose is a table. Even today, many tables use the default styles, which makes them somewhat boring. In this article, I show you how to use CSS (cascading Style Sheets) to make your tables more interesting. 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 ...
How to Center a DIV
The current proper way to center a div is to use CSS to set both its margin-left and margin-right properties to auto. More ...
Easy Floating Menu Code
In this article you learn how to create a floating menu with only a few simple lines of code. You learn how to make the menu float smoothly, and you learn how to give your floating menu 3D buttons and mouseover effects. 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 ...
Understanding CSS Positioning
One of the most important CSS webpage layout concepts to understand how to position webpage elements. In this article you'll learn how a web browser places elements on the webpage as it renders the display, and you'll learn about the five different methods of positioning: static, relative, absolute, fixed, and float. More ...
Make a Fixed-width Variable-height Round Cornered Box
You have undoubtedly seen websites that display text within round cornered boxes, and, since there is no round cornered html element, you wondered how that was done. In this article, you'll learn precisely how to create such a round cornered box. More ...
