Archive for the ‘CSS’ Category

Pure CSS Speech Bubbles

Just as the title says, speech bubbles done beautifully just with pure CSS. All examples use simple, semantic HTML. No empty elements, no unnecessary extra elements, no JavaScript, no images (apart from that Twitter logo)…

Uniform

Uniform supposedly helps you produce “sexy forms with jQuery.” Essentially, it is a jQuery plugin that styles form elements and provides them a consistent look. A few designs are initially available as themes and it should be fairly easy to build your own from it.

Notes on @font-face

In my struggle playing with @font-face at my personal blog, I’ve learned that right now, it really isn’t worth it yet. Unless if your design really requires it. Here’s a bunch of links I’ve used while trying it out though: Font Squirrel | Download Hundreds of Free @font-face Fonts High Performance Web Sites :: @font-face [...]

Simple Print Stylesheets

Many of us web desingers and users mainly focus on how our pages look when viewed through a browser, which is our primary medium of presentation. However, there are sites that cater to a much broader audience that include a significant chunk of “paper users,” people who print pages for various purposes. 37signals’s Basecamp is [...]

cssQuery

cssQuery is a javascript library that provides an easy way to access DOM elements, without the need for focusing too much on transversing the document’s elements. More developers are more adept in CSS than in Javascript, making this a useful tool for those fairly proficient in CSS. cssQuery may be considered similar to jQuery and [...]