Tag Archives: css
iPhone 4 Retina Display HTML/CSS
Here is a quick and easy way to make your html/css look good on an old iphone/ipod touch AND a new retina display iphone 4. Just try the following: 1) Add the proper meta tag into the html’s header. This version also locks the scale: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no"> 2) Add references to [...]
Why CSS should not be used for layout
According to Ron Garret, “CSS is really cool. It is useful for a lot of things. The basic idea of separating content from presentation is sound. But when it comes to layout, the design of CSS is fundamentally flawed. Use tables instead.” I have to say that I agree with Ron. He goes on to [...]
How to Style an Application Like Facebook
Nice article by Bill Konrad over at socialsnippets.com that covers the default facebook css styling: http://www.socialsnippets.com/snippets/how-to-style-an-application-like-facebook.aspx “…explore how we can style our Facebook application to look and feel like an extension of the Facebook platform. We will examine colors, fonts, dimensions and a few common design patterns utlized by the Facebook platform in our quest [...]
The Grid System
Great resource here: http://www.thegridsystem.org/ Remember to break it so it retains it power. Here is a preachy little quote from the site, “The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee. It permits a number of possible uses and each designer can look for a solution appropriate to his personal style. But one must learn how [...]
Yahoo’s Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site
Nicely written and useful: Yahoo’s Exceptional Performance team has identified a number of best practices for making web pages fast. The list includes 34 best practices divided into 7 categories. http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html
Malo CSS
I am not sold on this framework – but it is awfully small. I give them that. Malo is ultra small css library for building web sites. It is meant to be structural base for small or medium web sites.Malo derives from it’s bigger brother Emastic CSS Framework. Why should you use Malo? Because it’s: Ultra [...]
YUI Library 3
Yahoo has released a pr1 of their revised YUI Library. The YUI team is pleased to announce YUI 3.0 Preview Release 1. This preview is an early look at what we’re working on for the next generation of YUI Library. Pleasereview the API, play with the examples, and read the documentation on this site for details; download [...]
Some More CSS-Techniques
Some useful css techniques collected by smashing magazine.
Css Toolbox
Mashable’s 20 CSS related links from editors, checkers, formaters, etc.
Ajax Rain
A site of a few hundred, some useful, some not, ajaxie scripts http://ajaxrain.com/index.php