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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Easy Scrollable Area Code
In this article you'll learn how to create a scrollable area. Then you'll learn how to use Style code to customize the appearance of your scrollable area. Next you'll learn how to layout your webpage with scrollable areas. And last, you'll learn how to load your scrollable area's from external files so you never need to edit your front page again. More ...
Create CSS Button Rollovers
In this article, you'll learn how to create the rollover effect without using Java Script and without preloading images. You'll learn how to combine the up, over, and down images into a composite image, and how to use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)to specify a position offset into the image in order to display the proper section for each button state. 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 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 ...
Create a No Image Rollover Button or Badge
In this article, I show you how to create a nice looking button or badge with a rollover effect that requires no image because it uses CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). I think you'll find that this is amazingly simple to do. 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
