If you’re new to CSS and web standards, you may feel as though you’ve fallen down a rabbit hole. Ben Henick is here to ease your pain.
Topic: CSS
Sliced and Diced Sandbags
Wouldn’t it be great if there were a way to get text to flow around an irregularly shaped image? Wouldn’t it be even better if we could automate the process? Have no fear: Rob Swan is here to show us the way.
Automatic Magazine Layout
You can’t always count on having a professional designer around to resize and position your images for you, but you’d rather your page layout didn’t look like it was created by orangutans. Harvey Kane builds a script that makes your life easier.
Prettier Accessible Forms
Forms are a pain. You can make them pretty, make them accessible, or go a little crazy trying to achieve both. Nick Rigby offers a happy solution.
A More Accessible Map
Nifty web maps powered by Google and Yahoo! APIs are all the rage. And rage is what a visually impaired user may feel when trying to use them. Is there a way to make beautiful web maps accessible? In a word, yes.
In Search of the Holy Grail
Just in case you might want a three-column layout that doesn’t require the usual sacrifices, we thought we’d share this technique. Not that you’d want that or anything.
Thinking Outside the Grid
CSS has broken the manacles that kept us chained to grid-based design…so why do so few sites deviate from the grid? Molly E. Holzschlag can tell us that the answer has something to do with airplanes, urban planning, and British cab drivers.
Printing a Book with CSS: Boom!
You like microformats? We’ll give you some freakin’ microformats. CSS luminaries Håkon Wium Lie and Bert Bos introduce the boom! microformat and show you how to make book the easy way.
Introducing the CSS3 Multi-Column Module
Cédric Savarese would like you to meet the CSS3 multi-column module. It may not have extensive browser support yet, but this semantically sound method of dividing content into columns may be more relevant than you think.
CSS Swag: Multi-Column Lists
Multi-column lists: can’t live with ’em, can’t achieve perfect bliss without ’em. Paul Novitski offers a staggering six possible methods for accomplishing this commonly requested layout trick. Examine your options and choose wisely.
