Faux Crop any size image with CSS
Here’s a quick tip on how to crop any sized image through CSS and an extra div. This technique comes in very handy when building websites for clients who don’t have Photoshop, or understand what 360px x 240px means. In an ideal world every image is edited and cropped before…
Read More ⊕Don’t Minify on the Fly
In the name of speeding up your site you may hear that minifying your CSS is both awesome and easy. I’ll agree that it’s very easy, and in the name of speed I can concede a bit to the awesomeness. But if you’re using @media or @font-face in your stylesheets,…
Read More ⊕The Admin Bar and Absolute Positioning
The latest release of WordPress (3.1) comes with a new ‘Admin Bar’ – a small area at the top of your site that displays (for logged in users) quick links and easy access to some of the most used portions of WordPress. If you happen to have absolutely positioned elements…
Read More ⊕Webkit { background: transparent;} bug
I’m a Huuuuge fan of the Webkit Open Source Project. It’s the engine behind Safari, Apple’s browser for both OS X and Windows. If you haven’t used it, give it a try. It’s my most favoritist browser. I prefer it’s Web Inspector over Firefox‘s Firebug plugin. Webkit is the experimental…
Read More ⊕YUI Grids vs Blueprint (CSS Frameworks)
CSS Frameworks have been around for a while now, and while there are many detractors, the benefits they provide make them an attractive option for speeding up development time, as well as simplifying complex layouts. After pouring through this Top 12 list of CSS Frameworks, the two that stand out the…
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