CSS Compressor is an online form that takes your CSS and compresses it down to reduce the filesize. A nifty little utility for those of you whose CSS is starting to get out of control.
Originally posted on April 29, 2005 @ 9:20 am
Windows XP CSS Desktop
Over the past two years we have seen a lot of cool things being done with CSS, but this might be the coolest one to date. It works just like a Windows desktop, but it is done completely in CSS.
What is interesting is to see that most of the positioning was done with unordered and definition lists. The CSS code is clean so this could make an excellent case study for any CSS developers and goes along well with my Learning CSS entry.
The project isn’t complete since Trovster has taken a break from it, but for what he has accomplished so far I must say that I am impressed.
Other tidbits about the project:
- If you do http://desktop.trovster.com/desktop/?name=YOURNAME — it’ll change the start-menu name to your input.
- If you do http://desktop.trovster.com/desktop/[email protected] — it’ll change the user icon if the email address is associated with the Gravatar service.
- If you do http://desktop.trovster.com/desktop/[email protected] — it’ll add a Gmail Notifier icon to the system tray area!
Originally posted on May 5, 2005 @ 10:07 pm
Forums and Tables
I am setting up a forum for all the members of the 9rules Network and remembered the million times that my buddy JC asked me to do a CSS skin for phpBB (the forum software that I will be using). When using CSS and tables it is accepted that tables should only be used when using tabular data (duh right?). However, does forum content equate to tabular data or should it really be done in all CSS?
I think it should be in tables because each data cell represents a specific column in a specific row. That’s my indepth scientific explanation.
If the general consensus is that it isn’t tabular data and I create a CSS skin, I will make sure to release it to the community in case anybody else wishes to use it. However, if it really should be in tables I don’t wish to use a pure CSS layout without tables when it is isn’t needed.
Originally posted on April 20, 2005 @ 1:04 am
CSS Border Styles
Whenever I get into the CSS of my sites I tend to stick with what I am used to because it makes development easier and I already know what the outcome is going to be (yeah that seems like common sense). This always seems to be the case with CSS border styles. Basically I stick with either solid or dotted simply because those are the two that stick out in my mind. Dotted comes out as dashed in IE so I am sure many of the IE users on my sites are not that impressed with that style, but I love it and we all know what a solid border looks like.
However, when playing with the design of this site yesterday morning I thought I would give another style a try to see what happens and I like the effect that it has on the site. I went with double simply because I wanted to. There is no “getting into the mind of the non-designer” insight here. Nope. I liked it, so I used it.
In any case, after the redesign (if you call it that) I was reading Cameron Moll’s site and his most recent entry Zaadz and the Evanescent Design Crew and found that Cameron used the double borders for his templates and it came out even sweeter than mine did (example).
If you need a refresher as to what the border style properties are in CSS here is a rundown:
- none (sweet)
- hidden (mostly for table stuff)
- dotted
- dashed
- solid
- double
- groove
- ridge
- inset
- outset
I’m not saying that you are better off using these instead of graphical borders, but it’s always good to have some alternatives in mind. Granted using some of those will give your site that swanky 1998 look, but maybe that is what you are aiming for.
Originally posted on April 13, 2005 @ 1:43 pm
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Originally posted on July 21, 2020 @ 9:57 am