You’ve probably already heard of CSS preprocessors by now, but haven’t quite plucked up the courage to try one because of the learning curve, or maybe because “preprocessor” just plain sounds intimidating. So let’s put those uncertainties at ease and go …Continue reading
If you’ve come to grips with CSS-based layouts, then it’s likely that you’re using floats as the primary means to layout your pages. Maybe you’ve even started to experiment with some of CSS’s far-future layout techniques, in hopes that browser …Continue reading
In this episode of The Treehouse Show, Nick Pettit (@nickrp) and Jason Seifer (@jseifer) talk about simple grids, command line tools for developers, and the usual dose of response web design. Here are the links for the week: Simple Grid …Continue reading
In this Quick Tip we’ll learn about Normalize.css, a new CSS tool we can use as an alternative to traditional CSS reset methods. Normalize.css makes browsers render all elements more consistently and in line with modern standards. It precisely targets …Continue reading
In part 1 we covered basic CSS concepts like the cascade and CSS rules. In this article, we’ll take things a step further with the CSS box model and basic selector types. The CSS Box Model Understanding how the box …Continue reading
This is the first of a two-part article on CSS, the most powerful tool we have available to us as web designers and developers. In this article, we’ll cover basic CSS concepts to get us started. What is CSS? CSS …Continue reading
I have been working on a website that displays products in a grid view, with each product containing a title, an image and some in a grid view. To achieve this layout, I used an unordered list with the CSS …Continue reading
Just when we thought responsive web design couldn’t get any more exciting, CSS3 recently introduced a new set of dynamic units for sizing elements — and they’re quickly gaining support! These powerful new units: vw, vh and vmin, when fully …Continue reading
Moving forward ladies and gents we are onto round two of this two part tutorial. In part one we covered the HTML/CSS/jQuery of our one page responsive Dribbble portfolio site. If you missed the first post please check it out …Continue reading
Lo and behold, Mr. Dan Cederholm has done it again! This time the folks over at SimpleBits unveiled their latest project, Pears, an open source WordPress theme that enables you to get your own pattern library up and running quickly.
To understand the concepts related to starting a business, we will use our online t-shirt store, Shirts 4 Mike, as an example. This includes the basics of marketing, finance, accounting, and the legal aspects of creating a company.
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