Posts Tagged ‘CSS’

How To Create A Wordpress Theme From Scratch

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

This tutorial will look at taking a HTML/CSS template and turning it into a functioning WordPress theme. There is so much you can do when creating your own theme we couldn’t nearly cover it all. So, we’re going to look at how themes are structured, creation of the core files and splitting up that index.html file.

Link: NETTUTS

CSS Typography: Contrast Techniques, Tutorials & Best Practices

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

The main advantage of elegant CSS typography lies in its ability to be both attractive and improves the user experience. When chosen wisely and used carefully, it can be very effective to support the overall design. There are many outstanding examples of how we can do this, and below you will find some of the best ideas and tips when it comes to using Fonts and typography in your CSS based sites.

Link: Noupe

8 CSS Techniques For Charting Data

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

There are many ways you can present numerical, chartable data by styling elements using CSS. Using CSS to style your data prevents you from relying on static images and increases your content’s accessibility.

Here you’ll read about 8 excellent techniques for styling elements into beautiful, accessible charts and graphs.

Link: Six Revisions

Are You Making These 10 CSS Mistakes?

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

Working with CSS can seem like a constant battle. Browsers are always changing they way they read the code (*cough* Internet Explorer *cough*), and it seems that there are lots of tiny little CSS “gotchas”. While it’s an incredibly powerful language, it can easily be used incorrectly, which will doom your development to a lifetime of imperfections.

Link: NetTuts