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Topic: CSS
CSS Design: Mo’ Betta Rollovers
Design smarter, faster, better rollovers with CSS.
Better Living Through XHTML
Everything you wanted to know about converting from HTML to XHTML, including why you’d want to, tools that help, changes in the way browsers display XHTML pages, shortcuts, bugs, workarounds, and other tips you won’t find elsewhere.
A Backward Compatible Style Switcher
You asked for it, you’ve got it: an Open Source alternate style sheet switcher that actually works in Netscape 4. No, really. Daniel Ludwin shows how it’s done.
Why Don’t You Code for Netscape?
Long considered the Holy Grail of web design, “backward compatibility” has its place; but at this point in web development history, shouldn’t we be more concerned about forward compatibility? ALA makes the case for authoring to web standards instead of browser quirks.
Alternative Style: Working With Alternate Style Sheets
Build a standards-compliant Style switcher: After explaining the basics of alternate style sheets, Sowden shows how to make them work in IE, Mozilla, and other modern browsers with just a few lines of JavaScript. Use style switchers to make your site more accessible, to facilitate user customization, or to develop creative effects.
How to Read W3C Specs
Although they appear maddeningly incomprehensible at first, W3C specifications are actually great sources of information, once you understand their secrets. Learn how to read the specs.
Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks, & Techniques
Think you need HTML tables to craft complex liquid layouts? Not so! In this tip-packed tutorial, Mark Newhouse shares advanced yet practical CSS techniques any working web designer can use.
CSS Talking Points: Selling Clients on Web Standards
Selling your clients on standards-compliant design doesn’t have to hurt. Kise’s four-point CSS Selling Plan helps the medicine go down.
CSS Design: Size Matters
Everything you think you know about controlling text sizes on the web is either wrong, or else it doesn’t work. In this much-bookmarked ALA classic, UI designer and CSS Todd Fahrner provides a way out of the mess by showing how to make CSS font size keywords work – even in stubborn browsers that get CSS wrong.
