Archive: CSS

Yesterday I had the pleasure of sitting at the back of “Handcrafted CSS“, a workshop led by Dan Cederholm and Ethan Marcotte. The workshop was based on their recently published book of the same name, if you don’t own a copy definitely add it to your holiday shopping list.

As attendees leafed through the book during the breaks I realised how much of I have relied on and enjoyed learning about web design and development from books. Funnily enough Dan’s first book, “Web Standard Solutions“, released in 2004 was the the first book I ever bought on CSS. It turns out it was the first CSS book for many designers I know. It taught me a lot and is still very relevant. (more…)

I recently came across a solution on CSSPlay for a JavaScript free lightbox that uses invalid markup. So, being a sucker for a challenge, I set myself the task of creating one with valid markup and I eventually succeeded.

Here’s one I made earlier. It works in FF, Safari, Chrome, IE6, IE7 and IE8 and this article will explain how…
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Editor’s Note: Elliot will be doing a talk called “The Perfect Portfolio Site” on the FOWD Tour.

This is the second video in our two-part series focusing on how to design a killer portfolio site (feel free to check out Part One).

In Part Two you’ll learn …

1. How to ‘design in the browser’
2. How to take your design from Photoshop to HTML and CSS
3. How to integrate your design into a CMS like WordPress
4. How to structure your CSS files
5. How to enrich your design with CSS3
6. How to use ‘custom fields’ in WordPress to make powerful templates
7. How to use Webkit Transistions to add extra beauty to your site

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