Video Blog – Intelligent Web Design Learning
In this video blog, Stefan goes over 2 major points: 1. Don’t get caught up in nerd-theory rabbit holes, that take up all your time on things that will have little to no impact on your day-to-day web...
View ArticleCentering Text with CSS
Centering text and other elements can easily be done with the CSS text-align property. It can be applied to a division, the p tag – pretty much any block-level element. Applying this to an internal or...
View ArticleThe CSS Overflow Property
By default, elements in a website will expand to make room for whatever they contain. An empty division, for example, won’t show at all, but you can add 1 or 12 (whatever) paragraphs, and the division...
View ArticleStyling a Horizontal Rule with CSS
A quick and easy way to insert a dividing line into a website is with a horizontal rule, the hr tag. This horizontal rule was created by the following inline CSS: <hr style="color: #f00; background:...
View ArticleUsing the CSS z-index
By default, the elements of a website line themselves up next to or under each other automatically. However, at times, the design requires them to overlap. When that happens, the stacking order becomes...
View ArticleStyling iframes with CSS
If you still haven’t heard, hear it now: FRAMES ARE DEAD – well, technically, they are more like the undead – the zombies of webdesign. They should be gone and forgotten but refuse to stay buried. It’s...
View ArticleAll Caps with CSS
While text in general is hard to read when written in all caps – and considered the electronic version of yelling – using CAPS for emphasize is a handy tool. Headers are a place where capitalization is...
View ArticleMultiple Background Images with CSS
At times, it makes more sense to use background images than to insert them directly into the page. And while each element – like your body tag – can hold only one background image, they can be applied...
View ArticleStyling Lists with CSS
We’ve already discussed navigation lists and list bullet images, but sometimes, a list is just a list. There are two types – the ordered list and the unordered list. The ordered list counts the items;...
View ArticleImage Borders with CSS
Sometimes, a website design benefits when images have frames – or borders. One way to get them is one image at a time, using a graphics program. But there is a much faster way – with CSS! This code:...
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