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Using Weather Data to Change Your Website’s Appearance through PHP and CSS
A few weeks back, CSS-Tricks.com's Chris Coyier asked me to help him use PHP and the Yahoo Weather API to create a website header that changes based on the weather. Mission accomplished! Skip over to the article and...
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CSS-Tricks — CSS & Text Selection & Highlighting
CSS-Tricks.com's Chris Coyier authored a really cool post titled Overriding The Default Text Selection Color With CSS. In the post, Chris explained: One of those cool CSS3 declarations that you can use today is
::selection, which overrides your browser-level or system-level text highlight color...
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Don’t Be A #f00! Get the Red Out!
One element of a website that involves direct user to website interaction is web forms. Web forms can be extremely helpful in getting customer information or retrieving customer feedback. The problem is that users can forget to provide a value in a text field...
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Hidden Accessibility Message Using CSS
While I was creating a Woot Checker for myself and you all, I was scanning through the page source code and saw something I had never seen before. I frequently browse the source code of the "big" websites but had never stumbled upon a hidden...
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Advanced CSS Printing — Using CSS Page Breaks
I have one customer that absolutely insists his web pages print perfectly. Why? Because he refuses to look at his pages on the screen -- he tells his employees to print the website for him to look at. And since he looks at...
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CSS3 and Your Browser
CSS3 has been in the works for quite a while but the "A grade" browsers have been slow to implement many of the new selectors. How is your current browser vendor doing? Use the CSS Selector test suite to find out!CSS...
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Override Vista and XP’s Themed Buttons and Scrollbars Using a META Tag
The first thing I do to any fresh Windows XP or Vista install is change the theme to old-school "Windows Classic" theme. Square gray boxes, in my opinion, are much better than the awful "rounded", colored bars. The XP and Vista theme settings also...
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Listless Navigation – Using CSS To Do More With Less
I've guest-blogged on Chris Coyier's blog, CSS-Tricks.com.Jump over to Chris' blog to read my article -- Listless Navigation - Using CSS To Do More With Less.
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Prevent Double Margin & Padding In IE6 When Using CSS Float
My thoughts on Internet Explorer have been well documented; for those that don't already know, I think IE hinders the internet's progress and represents another embarrassment for Microsoft. That said, a majority of users still browse with Internet Explorer 6 so...
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Horizontally Center Your Website Structure Using CSS
Every web programmer knows that you can't code a commercial website for a specific browsers or user experience level, much less a screen resolution. Since you can't count on a user having the latest and greatest, you need to use the lowest common denominator of...
