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 ...
Pro CSS Techniques
One thing this book focuses on that is different than the majority of other CSS book is that is stresses creating semantic markup throughout the design and development process. What this means is that the code is free of presentational information using div and span only when absolutely necessary. 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 ...
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 ...
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 Transition Code For a Pulsating Button
One way to bring attention to a webpage element is to make it pulse. Fortunately, CSS level 3 has provided us with easy to use transitions. In this article You use CSS 3 transitions make a pulsing menu button. 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Code for Horizontal Drop-down Menu Bar
One of the most popular website navigation elements used today is the horizontal drop-down menu bar. Using the code provided in this article, you'll be able to create a menu bar that meets your requirements. You'll be able to easily change the number of main menu and sub-menu items, and to style the menu as you desire. 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 ...
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 ...
