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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Code to Move the Scrollbar to the Left Side
You can easily move the scrollbar of a block-level html element to the left side by setting its direction property to rtl. However, there are a few other thing you need to do to make it work right. More ...
How to Make Images Responsive
With today's widespread use of mobile devices, you might want to make images on your webpage adjust their size if your webpage is displayed on a small mobile smartphone screen. This article provides easy code examples to make images responsive. More ...
Easy CSS Popup Windows
Popups are usually created by using JavaScript to open a new browser window. But with today's Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) capable browsers you don't need to open a new browser window. Instead, you can create popups by applying styles to html span or div elements. 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
