http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/category/css/ Posts with the latest CSS tutorials, CSS tips, news, resources, info related to CSS - Cascading Style Sheets, such as CSS layouts and positioning, CSS navigation menus, best practices, solutions to browser bugs, CSS and PHP, and more. en-us CSS Copyright 2000-2008 Shirley Kaiser, SKDesigns. All rights reserved. Shirley Kaiser 2007-12-06T08:31:24-08:00 720 daily 2 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://brainstormsandraves.com/xml/brainstorms88.gif http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/category/css/ 88 31 Posts with the latest CSS tutorials, CSS tips, news, resources, info related to CSS - Cascading Style Sheets, such as CSS layouts and positioning, CSS navigation menus, best practices, solutions to browser bugs, CSS and PHP, and more. Fascinating reading to be had about the upcoming IE8 via a new interview of Bill Gates by Molly Holzschlag: Conversation with Bill Gates about IE8 and Microsoft Transparency. Not long after the interview, the official IE Blog also announced the upcoming Internet Explorer 8. Check out the complete post that covers that interview, the IE Blog's announcement, an earlier interview with Chris Wilson (IE's platform architect), other information about the upcoming IE8, and IE's current CSS support. Also included are links to lots more resources. (907 words, 26 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2007/12/06/ie8/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2007/12/06/ie8/ Shirley Kaiser 2007-12-06T08:31:24 I've received numerous inquiries about how I created the entry post calendar icon look for Brainstorms and Raves. So today's post shares the basics of the CSS and the two tiny background images I created to achieve the calendar icon look. (1308 words, 2 links, 12 images) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2007/02/22/csscalendar/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2007/02/22/csscalendar/ Shirley Kaiser 2007-02-22T08:24:29 Do you ever wonder what goes into brainstorming sessions and creative ideas from some of the top names in the Web design field? You'll find that and much more with blog posts earlier this week by three creators of the latest redesign of Happy Cog's website - Jeffrey Zeldman, Jason Santa Maria, and Daniel Mall. (328 words, 13 links, 1 image) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2007/02/10/happycog/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2007/02/10/happycog/ Shirley Kaiser 2007-02-10T10:34:15 The BrowserCam pool via fundable.org that I belong to is up for its annual renewal. It has a few openings for subscribers this time around. This subscription is for the BC-Complete plan, and the cost is US $26 for the 12-month subscription via fundable.org (information below). US $499.95 is the cost otherwise, so this is a fantastic value! (261 words, 5 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2006/12/18/browsercam/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2006/12/18/browsercam/ Shirley Kaiser 2006-12-18T20:13:44 There are lots of great new and recent articles, tutorials, and tips about Web accessibility. Today's post includes links to articles and tutorials on Web accessibility in general, accessible forms, accessible style switching, including my own site's style switching, accessibility and the blind and low vision users, helpful accessibility tools for Web developers, and more. (1412 words, 42 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2006/10/12/accessibility/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2006/10/12/accessibility/ Shirley Kaiser 2006-10-12T15:29:40 Building on the previous post, User-friendly Contextual Navigation with Simple PHP Includes, I thought I'd take things one small and simple step further by using PHP once again, this time to add a CSS class for the current page. Then it's easy to use this CSS class to create a helpful visual cue within your navigation. Read the entire post for a simple way to accomplish this, PHP code, markup, CSS, and graphic examples. (1001 words, 5 links, 4 images) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2006/10/09/navigation2/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2006/10/09/navigation2/ Shirley Kaiser 2006-10-09T21:07:20 I've been buried the last five months quietly working hard on a major redesign and restructuring of WebsiteTips.com. I'm now excited to announce that the all new WebsiteTips.com is now online. Read the complete post to learn all about it! (426 words, 11 links, 2 images) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2006/03/23/websitetips/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2006/03/23/websitetips/ Shirley Kaiser 2006-03-23T19:01:16 As I was doing final cross-browser testing for a redesign of SKDesigns, my website design business, the design implementation was working quite well in nearly every mainstream browser for Windows, Mac, Linux, and even the Lynx text-only browser. Unfortunately, though, I found problems with three old or little used browsers, such as Internet Explorer 5.2 for Mac that destroyed the CSS-positioned layout. I toiled over how to best handle these browser bugs, especially since my upcoming Web design book -- currently in production at my publisher -- stresses the importance of usability, readability, and degrading gracefully for older browsers. Today's post covers part of my decision-making journey and choices of approaches for dealing with these CSS bug-riddled old and little-used browsers. (2731 words, 53 links, 5 images) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/08/14/csstesting/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/08/14/csstesting/ Shirley Kaiser 2005-08-14T21:08:16 The WaSP (Web Standards Project) website today reported on two recent face-to-face meetings between WaSP and Microsoft as part of a new collaboration to promote Web standards and help developers build standards-conformant Web applications. The initial indications are incredibly positive, and I'm more than a little thrilled to see this giant leap forward. Read the complete post for more on this. (302 words, 6 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/07/21/standards/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/07/21/standards/ Shirley Kaiser 2005-07-21T19:40:57 Molly Holzschlag has written an exceptional and fascinating post on her perceptions from Web Design World 2004 conference in Boston, web design world cool-down. The great news is that she sees a positive shift happening in overall mood, feelings of job security, and there was a good turnout, as companies seem to paying for conferences again. In her post, Molly also clarifies many of the misconceptions she found at the conference. (98 words, 1 link) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2004/12/19/misconceptions/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2004/12/19/misconceptions/ Shirley Kaiser 2004-12-19T12:19:34