In the first part of our tutorial on Compass sprites, I showed you how awesome it was that we could make Compass do all the hard work for us by simply throwing our icons into their own folder and telling …Continue reading
CSS preprocessors have become increasingly popular in recent years because of their capacity to do a lot of the most tedious parts of CSS for you automatically. (For an overview of the different CSS preprocessors available, see How to Choose …Continue reading
You can find a lot of different menu styles on the web today. Similarly designers and developers are often more than happy to share their techniques with the world. And through these tutorials new designers can learn about trends and …Continue reading
CSS frameworks have gone responsive, squeezing content into a spectrum of desktop and mobile browsers with varying degrees of success. While any CSS solution for layout is preferable to nested tables, no single solution fits every website. But that hasn’t stopped …Continue reading
Since our launch in November 2011, we’ve been approaching our mission to bring affordable Technology education to our members across the globe through a unique blend of project-based online video tutorials, Code Challenges, quizzes, creative series and more, all taught …Continue reading
In the CSS3 selectors module, the W3C introduced a new set of attribute selectors called substring matching attribute selectors for specifically targeting elements whose given attribute begins, ends or contains a certain value. In this article, we’ll learn how these …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 CSS Quick Tip, we’ll learn how to define color values with the HSLa color model. HSLa stands for Hue, Saturation, Lightness, and alpha. This HSLa Color Values method is much more intuitive than RGBA or Hex values, allows …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
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Smells Like Bakin' is a cupcake company in need of a website. This project will walk us through the basics of HTML and CSS from the very beginning. HTML and CSS are the structural and presentational building blocks of every website and will serve as the foundation for any web project.
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