By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, technology reviews
Making the web cleaner, one project at a time… Remember the Cascade To Reduce Selector Use Try a minimalistic approach to the number of ids and selectors you create. Use the cascade to your advantage by creating child elements of your current class instead of creating a whole new class to describe what you want
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By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS
Keep it Together Man! Always keep your styles in external style sheets when possible. Inline styles, while they seem handy when you just need to make a quick update, will spell trouble in the future when you need to make full design changes. They also make troubleshooting that much more difficult since you have to
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By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, art forms, self-reflection
CSS is easy enough to start to learn, but it really takes some practice to master and understand the beautiful efficiency it provides. These techniques of efficiency separate the apprentices from the masters in the art of CSS. Now that I know what I know now, I wish someone would have told me these secrets
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By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, art forms, flash, new technologies, project management, technology reviews, things to do, user experience, viral marketing
I just wanted to make sure you were invited to all the awesome web and design happenings this week in Phoenix! Tues, Dec 4th – Refresh Phoenix Refresh Phoenix meets every first Tuesday of the month to discuss current internet issues and trends. The topics range from becoming your own boss to css frameworks to
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By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, technology reviews, things to do
Come on over to Inza Coffee House tomorrow night to join me and the crew of Refresh Phoenix as we discuss Blueprint CSS. Blueprint is a CSS framework by Olav Bjorkoy, which “aims to cut down on your CSS development time.” Matt Heidemann & Matt Gist from Integrum Technologies will talk about their recent work
Tags: Blueprint-CSS, Cascading-Style-Sheets, Coffee, cross-browser, cross-browser-compliance, css, css-file, CSS-Framework, css-stylesheets, development-time, framework, front-end-development, good-website-design, Integrum-Technologies, Inza-Coffee, Inza-Coffee-House, Matt-Gist, Matt-Heidemann, naming-conventions, Olav-Bjorkoy, phoenix-web, Phoenix-web-events, Print-Style-Sheets, printing-websites, Refresh-Phoenix, Social-Networking, style-sheets, stylesheet, technology reviews, things to do, typography, web-community, Web-Design, web-event, web-site-design, web-workshops, website-design, websites, XHTML/CSS
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By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, flash, new idea!, new technologies, technology reviews
Recently we’ve completed four sites for Civigroup Companies. Within those sites you’ll notice several instances of sIFR (flash replacement text) inline with content. This is no easy task for sIFR text. While trying to accomplish this feat of magic, I spent quite a bit of time researching different aspects of sIFR and how it works
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By aprilholle | ASP .Net, XHTML/CSS, new technologies
If we declare themes in the @ page declaration using StyleSheetTheme instead of just Theme the document is then populated with the css stylesheets at the beginning of the head declaration instead of at then end
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