Posted in CSS on Jun 4th, 2004 No Comments »
Media type Methods
It is surprising with so much emphasis being placed on using CSS in web design today that few library websites incorporate media types in their style sheets. A media type allows the web designer to assign specific styles based on the type of device the page will be displayed on. The W3C defines [...]
Posted in CSS on May 15th, 2004 No Comments »
An Objective Look at Table Based vs. CSS Based Design
This is a good article that discusses the differences between table-based and CSS-based design. It provides a great overview of the pros and cons of using one type of design or the other. The author describes why many web designers aren't using CSS based design yet. [...]
Posted in CSS on Apr 4th, 2004 No Comments »
CSS Zen garden
I love this site. Every time I come here I find something new. I wish that I was this good at graphic design. For those of you who haven't visited the Zen garden, it basically is a showcase for CSS-based design (with a graphic design bent). The same content is displayed in a [...]
Posted in CSS on Apr 3rd, 2004 No Comments »
I've been looking at the CSS 3 Reccomendations in progress. There are some really neat things that are part of these reccomendations. One interesting thing is the writing-mode property, which changes the way text flows on the page. This property will be very helpful in rendering languages such as Arabic, Hebrew and some east Asian [...]
