Entries Tagged 'CSS' ↓

If you’ve ever been asked “but why is a CSS-based layout better?” and didn’t have a good answer ready, this is a post you have to read. Matt Jurmann on Chromatic Sites gives us Thirteen Reasons Why CSS is Superior to Tables in Website Design. Excellent post with thirteen concrete reasons why you should design your next site using CSS.

Paul Annett of Clearleft has a tutorial post on Vitamin today stepping the reader through a recreation of the parallax CSS design trick from Silverbackapp.com. Parallax scrolling for a website involves overlaying png images to give the page a 3D look.

Smashing Magazine, king of the top-x lists, posts another list today, this time outlining 50 cool CSS techniques. Some of the links are blog posts outlining the technique while others are simply links to sites using the technique, leaving the obtainment and grokking of the source code as an exercise for the reader. I found the Triadic Background Setting with CSS and the CSS Transparency Settings for all Browsers particularly helpful. Good list!

John Resig writes today about CSS Selectors. Though the main point of his article is about performance and the need to weight speed tests with regard to the selectors people actually use, it is very critical of the CSS 3 Selector Specification.

Daniel Glazman, one of the editors for the specification, has already posted a rebuttal to John’s gripes on his site.