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CSS Tuesdays: Minify
Looking to really increase the load time of your site and minimizing the HTTP requests? Check out Minify. This handy app will easily and quickly compress your CSS (and Javascipt) files.
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CSS Tuesday: Overide Inline Style
How many times have you worked with either someone else’s code or some crazy dynamically generated code that uses inline styles for everything which you need to change or override but cannot for some reason or another? I have seen this a lot with custom applications written by programmers who think they are doing designers […]
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Remove Button and Image Outlines
Ever wonder how to get rid of the nasty outline that Firefox puts around some images/buttons? Add this little bit of code to your CSS that controls the button or image and you will no longer see these ugly outlines:
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Out With the Old, In With the New
As you might have noticed – I took a week off from blogging in order to focus on something else – cleaning up Jappler.com. Over the past few months I have learned so much more about WordPress, web site optimization, and what I really used this web site for – so I decided I needed […]
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Quick CSS for WordPress Images (Updated)
A week or so ago, I posted some information on how to quickly style your WordPress images. After recently updating my company’s web site (SDAC Inc. – I noticed if you used captions, my custom CSS would not work. Here is some CSS that will work with and without image captions: The difference? I used […]
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jQuery + CSS + XHTML = Jappler Menus v2
Previously – I introduced a nice way to create drop down menus using HTML (lists), Javascript (drop down), and CSS (styling of menu). I put all of this together and called it: Jappler Menus. (See previous post about Jappler Menus). Since writing that post – I have found a better, faster, cleaner way to work […]
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Quick CSS for WordPress Images
If you install WordPress and use the media uploader to manage your images in your posts – you can easily style your images quickly by adding the following code to your theme’s stylesheet. This code will set up your images to float appropriately, as well as give a nice border as seen below. Note* This […]
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Quick Expandable List
Ever need a list which you can easily show/hide the content? Check out: http://cssglobe.com/post.asp?id=940
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Using !important With CSS
I am not a “quick fix” or “work around” type of person. When a CSS debugging project comes my way I look first at fixing the problem systemically vs. applying the quick fix. Recently though I was brought into a project with an insane amount of CSS and conflicting styles all over the place. Since […]
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Simple 3 Column Layout
I was talking to one of my friends today who does a lot backend programming but often needs a quick and easy 3 column layout that has the floats all figured out. His frustration with floats prompted me to make a very basic layout for him to use. If you find yourself in the same […]
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Always Use a Doctype
After spending an hour on something that should have taken me 20 minutes – I wanted to pass on something I should have caught right away. The problem: you use CSS to lay something out and it looks great in Firefox and Safari – but not in IE. At this point I validate the CSS […]
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Add a "Pseudo" Pseudo Class Hover in Inline CSS.
I have been busy this week with a few really cool projects – one of them to create a widget for any site that will show the latest news items from a RSS feed – while not limiting the widget to servers with PHP. After putting that together, I had to add inline CSS to […]