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Easy Cascading Style Sheets
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 ... 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 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... Display Overlapping Images on Your Webpage In this article I show you how easy it is to use script to display overlapping
images on your webpage where you can just change numbers to play around and
arrange the images and overlapping to get it just the way you like it without
having to repeatedly use a graphics application. 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 ...
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