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  • CSS Background Images

    Posted on February 15th, 2010, 9:00 am by Graeme Attkins

    Does your website have a funky background image? Great! Now, how does the text appear to visitors who haven’t loaded that image? This post examines a back-up colour for your backgrounds.

    1 comment Accessibility, CSS, Usability, Website Design, Website Layouts
     Accessibility, CSS, Usability, Website Design, Website Layouts 000 Jpg, Background Color, Background Colour, Background Colours, Background Image, Background Images, Background Jpg, Background Url, Cascade, Css, Dark Background, Default Background, Images Background, Images Jpg, Tab Size, True Color

  • Rotating Text on Web Pages

    Posted on February 13th, 2010, 9:00 am by Graeme Attkins

    Example of table with rotated textEver wished you could rotate your text 90 degrees to make your tables more user-friendly? This little PHP script will do just that for you!

    1 comment PHP, Website Layouts
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  • Add Icons to your Links

    Posted on October 5th, 2008, 5:50 pm by Graeme Attkins

    On most of the websites I’ve been building recently, I’ve been using the following snippets of code to make user-friendly icons appear immediately after icons — automatically.
    It’s all done with CSS — though it may be something you’ve not seen before — and it’s an excellent timesaver once you’ve got it set-up.
    EDIT:
    You can see this [...]

    4 comments CSS
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  • Listamatic

    Posted on August 29th, 2008, 1:03 pm by Graeme Attkins

    Another site I visit regularly, this site simply lists examples of how you can change your bullet point lists into advanced lists, navigation buttons and tabs.
    Simply find the list you like most, or the one that most closely matches your requirements, then copy and paste the XHTML and CSS into your own documents. Tweak [...]

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     CSS Links Bullet Point, Css, Listamatic, Navigation Buttons, Tabs, XHTML

  • Stu Nicholls — CSS Play

    Posted on August 29th, 2008, 12:10 pm by Graeme Attkins

    I’m a regular visitor to this website which concentrates on finding CSS-based solutions to all manner of web interfaces.
    Concentrating on functionality and accessibilty, this website has some sweet techniques for achieving things with CSS you just won’t believe are possible!
    Check it out today at http://www.cssplay.co.uk/

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     CSS Links Based Solutions, Css, CSS Play, Functionality, Nicholls, Stu, Web Interfaces

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