How many times have you used float:left to make a bunch of elements align horizontally? Usually this technique is used on lists (of both the ul and ol persuasion) and generally works just fine under a few preconditions. The first precondition is that you are comfortable using some form of a clear-fix hack. Either you [...]
Tags: css, inline-block, layout
Why start with a blank slate? After years of web development and hundreds of sites, starting from scratch on each project really turns into a buzz kill. Nobody wants to spend time rehashing the same issues from site to site. So many of us have turned to CSS Resets. As we all know, CSS Resets [...]
Tags: css
I was recently on a project that called for a translucent background color over a an image similar to this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/yeowatzup/ / CC BY 2.0 Of course, being the conscientious web developers we are, we want to be as semantic as possible with our markup. This means that text should be marked up as text [...]
