CSS Miscellaneous tutorials
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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Chrome CSS Drop Down Menu
Chrome Menu is a CSS and JavaScript hybrid drop down menu. It's easy to configure and search engine friendly.
Invisible Objects
Use CSS's visibility property to make objects or elements on a page invisible. Normally this feature is pointless, but it is an excellent way to improve your search engine rankings. This enables you to add or restate search terms on your page that are related to your site's topics, but make them invisible to visitors.
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.
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.
Heading Tags Explained
Heading tags are an integral part of SEO (search engine ptimization).
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?
Z-index, background images and hidden text-Search Engine friendly
In this tutorial I will explain how to use background images with a different tags to place them one on top of the other using absolute positioning and z-index.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Useful CSS Code
This is basic CSS tutorial that will teach you how to use CSS code for CSS coding.
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.
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.
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…
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.
Emulating the Fieldset Element
I've seen sites out recently who are using and abusing the fieldset tag to use for their layout. This isn't a good thing, since <fieldset> is meant to be for forms. To stop confusing search engines and users, I have come up with a simple div/CSS fix for you guys to use so everyone can be happy :)
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.
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.
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.
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...
CSS first-child and last-child selectors
The CSS selectors :first-child and :last-child are used to apply styling to the first and last child elements of the parent. :first-child is part of the CSS 2.1 specification and :last-child CSS 3 so support is slightly limited for :first-child and more limited for :last-child. A number of browsers also have issues applying the styling correctly after additional elements have been added dynamically.
CSS Custom Cursors
This tutorial is guide to using custom mouse pointers and cursors with css. And is geared towards someone who is new to css.
Rounded corners textbox using photoshop
In this tutorial I will explain how to create custom made textbox using css and photoshop. The textbox will have rounded corners, colored border and search icon.
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.
A Guide to Cleaner and Faster Coding
One of the simplest ways to speed up and clean up your coding is to learn CSS Shorthand. In order to fully grasp shorthand, it is helpful to already have a decent knowledge of CSS. I have put together a simple guide to bring you into the world of CSS Shorthand.
Accessible Graphical Menus
When designing a web site, it's generally a good idea to keep your sites navigational elements text-based. This has several advantages, like being search engine friendly and easily accessible to screen readers and hand-held devices. Let's face it, though, sometimes that's not always practical and what the site design really calls for is a nice menu comprised of graphics in which the actual menu text is stylized. So, here's a little trick that will give you the best of both worlds. We're going to build a graphically-based navigation menu out of an unordered list.
CSS Is Superior to Tables in Website Design
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are superior to table based layouts when designing a website. Some web designers swear that table based layouts are better than CSS based layouts, while others believe that table based layouts are ancient history and XHTML combined with CSS is the only real solution to coding a web sites visual layout.
How to Add Google Custom Search Box in Navigation Menu
We all know navigation of a website gives more impression to the readers. Most of the people want important things like search box, categories in navigation. In this tutorial I am going to explain how to add google custom search box in navigation bar.
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!
Why use CSS?
Discover why and how webmasters are turning to CSS in order to save bandwidth, time, and more.
CSS and Cursors
With CSS you can change what the cursor looks like when it hovers over your links and other elements.
A CSS menu with rollovers
This article is for people who have little to no experience with CSS. I will explain very detailed which codes to use and how to use them.
CSS Font Shorthand Writing
When styling your fonts using CSS you may be doing something like this ...
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.
Quotations in CSS
Here's a short tutorial on how to style quotes with CSS whilst making sure you use the right XHTML tools for the job.
CSS and Media Types
Every webmaster want that his pages can be accessible to everyone. CSS-2 brought along a way to apply different styles to a page dependant on the medium it is being used through.
CSS Primer
Learning CSS is like learning HTML: It seems odd at first, but once you master the basics, it's just a matter of tuning your technique. If you don't know HTML, you need to learn it before tackling CSS. Just as DHTML depends on style sheets, so do style sheets depend on HTML.
10 Steps to Better CSS
Coding CSS can quickly get out of control. By readin this tutorial's few simple guidelines you can make your life a lot easier.
CSS and Spacing
All block-level HTML elements can be given margins and padding properties so that they are spaced out exactly as you want them to be. We'll also see how to change the display-type of an element through CSS.
 
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