Archive for March, 2004

Way To Go Zen Garden

I would like to give a big congrats to Dave Shea and all the CSS Zen Garden contributors on winning big at the Web Awards for Best Developer’s Resource and BEST OF SHOW. That is totally cool!

You know, I have a few contributions of my own over there.

Contribution One
Contribution Two

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Fast rollovers, no preload

By Russ Wittmann

People have asked me lately; Russ, “How were the menus created on your site?” Well, the method was easy; I was wandering around the web one day and stumbled across a tutorial by Project VII called ‘uberlinks‘. I immediately thought this was the coolest thing I have ever seen.

I decided to put my design wheels on and started making my menu. One issue I ran into was the way the images were preloaded and that they took awhile to display. While looking for a solution, I stumbled across this site. Via (ALA), please view both tutorials to find out how these were done.

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CSS Drop Shadows

By 1976 Design

Much used, often maligned but always popular, drop shadows are a staple of graphic design. Although easy to accomplish with image-editing software, they’re not of much use in the fast-changing world of web design… until now.
See entire article

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Image Slicing’s Kiss of Death

By Dave Shea

Say goodbye to old-school slicing and dicing when creating image maps, buttons, and navigation menus. Instead, say hello to a deceptively simple yet powerful sprite-based CSS solution.

see the excellent atrticle over at ALA

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Sliding Doors of CSS, Part II

By Douglas Bowman

Sliding Doors of CSS (Part I) introduced a new technique for creating visually stunning interface elements with simple, text-based, semantic markup. In Part II, we’ll push the technique even further. If you haven’t read Part I yet, you should read it now.

Read Part II Now

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