Posts tagged CSS
WordPress Mondays: Learn How Easy it can be to Create CSS Buttons with MaxFoundry’s WordPress Plugin
Aug 29th
Web designers and web marketers love navigation buttons and call to action buttons. These buttons, if designed correctly, can point readers towards important content, products, and subscriber list forms. Buttons are only as good as they a designed. Well designed buttons can help drive traffic to where you want. Whereas, a poorly designed button won’t be all that effective.
Creating stylish buttons can be hard work, but, for those that do not have the skills or tools to create effect buttons for their sites, button creation is a lot harder. For those that have the skills and tools to create More >
What Are Margins and Padding in CSS
Nov 18th
Have you ever notice that some websites or when you working on a blog post your text wrapping around an image and the text is right up against or overlapping the image? Ugly right? Well, there is fix for this. You can use CSS or cascading style sheets to fix this. When you want to wrap text around an image or you want to add space to the container, you can set the padding and margins. By default, these settings are set at 0px. To get the text off the image you can set the margin to 5px – 10px and the More >
How To Use Google Web Fonts on WordPress and Other Sites
May 20th
Earlier this week Google released Google Font Directory and Google Font API. Google teamed up with Typekit to create an open sourced Font project. All fonts found in the directory are available for use on any website under an open source license and are served by Google servers. Once in the directory, you can browse Google’s catalog of fonts, learn more about the font designers and get the code required to use them on your site.
Google Web fonts is compatible with the following browsers
- Google Chrome: version 4.249.4+
- Mozilla Firefox: version: 3.5+
- Apple Safari: version 3.1+
- Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6+
6+ New CSS Tutorials You May Not Have Read Yet
Apr 28th
Over the last few days I spent some more time reading and studying a new list of SS tutorials. Every chance I get, read over CSS blogs and tutorials sites finding the latest CSS guides out there and learning what I can. Cascading Style Sheets are found in every modern website. As a designer and WordPress administrator it is vital that you have CSS skills so can create and modify sites as needed. These are just a few of the CSS sites I went over and learned from. Enjoy.
- The definitive guide to formatting CSS – Sickdesigner – “As web designers, we like certain More >
Design Resources for Designers Daily Delicious Links April 15th
Apr 15th
Today I spend some time looking for resources to help with web and graphic design. I found CSS tutorials , photoshop brushes, WordPress code snippets that might come in handy, and new fonts.
- Colorburned | 53 Incredible High Resolution Photoshop Paint Brushes “These brushes are not only good for roughing up or distressing your designs, but these Photoshop brushes are also great if you just need to reproduce a paint brush effect. So if you are like me and are looking for that perfect set of Photoshop brushes, download this set of brushes and give them a try. I think that you will More >
Blogging Tips, DoFollow Debate, and Web Design Tips Weekly Round Up April 05, 2009
Apr 5th
This week, I decided to change the weekly link love title and how I post my favorite reads of the week. I try and post links once a week on Sundays. The articles I post about, I feel, are some of the best articles or my favorites of the week. But lately I have been busy through out the week and over the weekend, which can cause me not to be able to read that much or I run out of time and not be able to make any posts over the weekend. Because of this, I will be posting More >
110+ CSS Resources and Tutorials
Mar 25th
Cascading style sheets (CSS) were created to define how HTML elements will display. CSS can be implemented on the index page or as a stand alone file. In most cases, I would recommend using an external style because you can easily make changes to the style sheet by updating the code and simply replacing the file on the server. If you want a completely different look, then you can create a new style sheet and put it in place. By doing this you will have a new look but the content will stay the same.
Today was a great day for More >
Daily Delicious Links March 5th
Mar 5th
Today I came across some more resources for designers. One of resources that I came across today is a special character shortcut keys cheat sheet. There are times in design a designer may need to use a special character. If its a character that the designer may not know. If that happens the designer will have to valuable time looking for the keyboard command to make this work. One of the links I found today has a large cheat sheet that has every special character that a designer may need.
I also found some more articles on CSS, photoshop tutorials, photo More >
Daily Delicious Links March 4th
Mar 4th
Today’s delicious posts is all about design. If you looking for tips and tutorials in CSS, then check out the CSS links I found. There is a lot of good information about CSS design and coding. I also found a set of 150 free paper textures for you to use in your designs. If you are looking for design tools, check the link I found about the 10 most popular Firefox plugins for designers.
- 4 Ways to Get Rounded Corners Using CSS – Pxleyes.com Blog “Rounded corners are a common CSS effect these days. There are several ways to accomplish this effect, and More >
Daily Delicious Posts Jan 15th 2010
Jan 15th
As a designer and a WordPress admin I try and use every available to out there to help me in my projects. Having to know so many different programming languages, I tend to forget certain codes or what scripts to use. I find that using cheat sheets come in handy. Today’s links are for two sites with a list of different cheat sheets for different programming languages. These sheets can be downloaded in a PDF file.I found cheat sheets for CSS, PHP, and javascript but, there are many more out there. Take a look out there, you won’t be disappointed.
10 Best Tutorials To Learn CSS3
Jan 12th
via aext.net
Understanding and Coding With CSS3As a designer, I believe that everyone who blogs, casually designs websites through programs such as Adobe Dreamweaver, web site owners and anyone who have sites such as Posterous, should have the basic knowledge of CSS3 and how it works and be able to change the code to make it work for their situation. Blog sites such WordPress, Blogger, and posterous, all use CSS to control the website theme or skin. By knowing just a little you can change the look, the feel, and even how the site works.
