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, 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 | XHTML/CSS, advertising & marketing, life news, technology reviews
This was the first website in which we were really able to experiment with large scale theme usage and I learned quite a bit about how to make the front end flexible enough to reskin
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