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 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 ...
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 ...
Easier Expanding Menu Code
This article provides you with easier expanding menu code than a previous article did by losing automatic menu unexpand feature and added some easy CSS code to provide nice mouse over effects. More ...
The CSS Box Model
One of the most important CSS webpage layout concepts to understand is the box model. Every element on a webpage is actually a rectangular box. Exactly how a box will display depends upon the positioning method used, which other CSS properties you set for the box and how you select the box. 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
