CSS Background Examples
The CSS background properties allow you to control the background color of an element, set an image as the background, repeat a background image vertically or horizontally, and position an image on a page.

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Pure CSS Image Rollovers
In this tutorial you will learn how to transform an ordinary link into a button with image rollovers using nothing but css.

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Improved CSS Hover Images
You see a lot of hover effects on web nowadays. When you hover your mouse cursor over a link it usually changes to something else - It doesn't matter if the link is an image or just text, there's usually some sort of hover effect in place. If it's a graphical link the hover effect is usually another image displaying the hover effect. This image is often preloaded on page load so that the user sees the effect right away, but there's also another way to do it. How about using just one image and changing its state/position it with CSS?

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Guide to Backgrounds
As the so called "presentation attributes" for the body element have been deprecated, some of you may be wondering how to add a background image to your XHTML document. The answer is to use CSS. The benefit of using CSS is that you can do a lot more with your background image. This tutorial will show you how.

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CSS Background Rollover
Looking to add a little style to your image links? Let's use CSS to add a background color that appears when the mouse hovers over the image. This style can be used on a variety of images but we'll be looking at adding this style to affiliate buttons.

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How To Style Heading Tags
Now when it comes to heading tags CSS is very important. They can be styled in many ways using a number of methods: Complete image to visitor with hidden text - Image Replacement Technique. One Background image as whole background with normal XHTML text - as on this site. Repeated background with XHTML text on it - Good to reduce bandwidth. Background and text all in css by use of colours and border.

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Creating a website navigation bar with CSS
There are many ways to create a navigation bar, you can use a programs like Photoshop and then convert the image into code, but when I see people creating them in Photoshop I think why bother? When you can simply use CSS for the whole creation and code of it. In this tutorial I will show you how to create a very clean navigation bar that will use one line of XHTML and the rest will be CSS.

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Image opacity effect with CSS and Java Script events
Create image opacity effect using CSS alpha filter and Java Script events. Use different syntaxes for different browsers.

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Custom CSS Cursors
Using CSS, you can change the default cursor icon associated with a particular element, even specifying your own cursor image (in IE6+) instead.

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A Cool CSS Technique
How to display a single icon from a gif image with multiple icons. This CSS technique can be found being used by the designers of Digg.com.

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Introduction To CSS Basics
A collection of 21 FAQs/tutorials tips on CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) basic. Clear answers are provided with tutorial exercises on CSS syntax basics, contextual, class, and id selectors, CSS cascading order rules, grouping CSS definitions, browswer default CSS definitions.

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Redefine tags and create classes with Css
Use Css to manage different types of html tags and create classes for personal style sites. Before planning a complex project that leads to the creation of an entirely web site with CSS, it's important to understand how CSS work.

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CSS Intro
Have you heard about the CSS technology which is revolutionizing web design? Learn the basic CSS concepts to explore a fast and easy way to make your site attractive to customers. CSS is an acronym for Cascading Style Sheet. A style sheet is made up of rules that tell a browser how to present a document to the user. Some older browsers don't understand CSS very well, but most of the newer browsers handle CSS increasingly well. In this tutorial i will attempt to explain a few CSS concepts to you, please read on.

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CSS Basics
Well, the content of this tutorial includes What is CSS? How do I make my CSS file? What do I put into my CSS file? How do I put the CSS on my site?

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CSS top image preloader
This tutorial will show You, how to use nice GIF animated preloaders for top images (or any other image).

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Do We Really Need Proprietary CSS Properties?
Recently, I was working on a project that utilised Webkit's CSS transforms to create a cool effect as a little extra to anyone viewing the page in Safari. Firefox 3.1 will also introduce CSS transfor…

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CSS Tutorial For Beginners
In this tutorial, you will learn how to: Create an external CSS file and link it to multiple HTML files; Embed and import a style sheet; Create inline style sheets; Use tap selector and class selector; Set up font sizes, colors, faces and styles; Set up background color and image; Set up margins, text-align and decoration; Create layers; Set up atributes of the table, and more...

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Creating a Navigation Bar with CSS
This interesting tutorial in HTML and CSS will show you how to create a Navigation Bar. It takes 16 steps, but they are short and easy to read. The great photos and screenshots make each step very understandable. Thanks to CSS, you can format your links with any style you choose and and can align your links horizontally or vertically. Also, using CSS instead of images to create a rollover effect helps your page load faster.

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30 CSS Best Practices for Beginners
CSS is a language that is used by nearly every developer at some point. While it's a language that we sometimes take for granted, it is powerful and has many nuances that can help (or hurt) our designs. Here are thirty of the best CSS practices that will keep you writing solid CSS and avoiding some costly mistakes.

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CSS Layouts Without Tables
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are the most flexible way to create attractive, standards-compliant websites. This article will address the drawbacks of relying too heavily on tables for layout as well as the benefits of using CSS.

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CSS Image Sprites Tutorial - Create Multiple Buttons with Graphic Rollovers
Image sprites can be a great way to create graphic rollovers and cut down on your bandiwdth. Here is an in depth, well illustrated tutorial on how to use them to create a navigation.

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Improved CSS Hover Images
You see a lot of hover effects on web nowadays. Images are often preloaded on page load so that the user sees the hover effects right away, but there's also another way to do it. How about using just one image and changing its state/position it with CSS?

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Image Sprite Navigation With CSS
Creating a navigation with Image Sprites.

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An Introduction to CSS
If you are a web designer and haven't been living in a cave for the last few years, then you must have heard of the amazing CSS technology! CSS is short for 'Cascading Style Sheets', and is a part of current web standards. Quite simply, it allows you to define your entire design from one simple document, making templates an utter doddle to set up and maintain. To help you get to grips with the new technology, this tutorial covers the basics of CSS setup, and helps get you well on your way to a more complete understanding of the CSS methodology.

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Do Not Think In Tables, Think In Styles
CSS tutorial describes how to get rid of tables and create clear and lightweight HTML layout with CSS. 'Float' and 'Clear' CSS properties are explained.

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Complete CSS
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a fantastic tool to add layout to your websites. It can save you a lot of time and it enables you to design websites in a completely new way. CSS is a must for anyone working with web design. This tutorial will get you started with CSS in just a few hours. It is easy to understand and will teach you all the sophisticated techniques.

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Embedding CSS Into An HTML Document
Some of you might be wondering what CSS actually is. CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets is a simple language which is used for styling your webpages, hence the "Style Sheets" CSS is very useful and can save alot of time and effort.

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Useful CSS Code
This is basic CSS tutorial that will teach you how to use CSS code for CSS coding.

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Creating Your First CSS Website
This is a great tutorial that will teach you everything that you have ever wanted to know about CSS. It's definitely worth a look. Using this step by step guide, you will learn from start to finish how to create a CSS style website. These detailed instructions will teach you everything you need to know to create a professional modern site!

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Creating and Linking External CSS Files
It is particularly useful to keep one css file for the entire website rather than having individual CSS styles in every page, advantage of having a separate CSS file is, it is easy to update and maintain the look and feel of the entire website from a single file.

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CSS Pop Up Menu 3 - Images
This tutorial expands on my last CSS pop up menu tutorial. This time I will focus on how to use image "buttons" in the menu rather than plain text.

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Advanced CSS (linking to an external style sheet)
The advanced way, and the easiest way to do CSS is to link to an external style sheet. Here I will sow you how. If you are new to CSS, I reccommend reading the basic CSS tutorial first, if you haven't already. First, open up notepad and put all your styles in.

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How to Use CSS for Search Engine Optimization
Using external CSS files to determine the design attributes creates clean HTML code and will create better search engine rankings. With some knowledge of CSS you can change the code without destroying the visual layout.

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Image Maps With Pop-Up Tool Tips
Using an unordered list, a couple of images, and a little CSS, we can create an accessible "image map" with pop-up tool tips that provide our readers more information on the links the map contains. There are several techniques out there for doing this, but, unlike some, the one outlined here has the advantage of working in older versions of Internet Explorer.

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CSS Repeating Backgrounds
Are you looking for a repeating background using CSS? This tutorial will teach you how to create 3 different css repeating backgrounds: horizontal, vertical and tiled.

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Horizontal Drop-Down Menu using CSS
Learn how to create a drop-down horizontal CSS menu, completely JavaScript-free. The menu is valid XHTML and CSS and uses unordered lists for the menu items.

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Simple image frame border effect
In this post I will explain who to make a simple but nice image border frame effect with css.

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CSS horizontal menu
From this tutorial you will find out how simple is to create awesome horizontal menus for your website using CSS and HTML.

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CSS Menu Using JavaScript (Revised)
I noticed a flaw with my original JavaScript drop down menu regarding customization using CSS. The problem was this; the LI elements below the #div's that were hidden didn't conform to their own CSS customization and stuck with the rules of the above LI's. Learn more...

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Pure CSS Popups
Learn how to create static-text popups purely through the power of CSS without using Javascript.

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