Sometimes backgrounds will be visible using firefox but not IE7 which makes you wonder…. why?
The reason is pretty simple. CSS needs to be perfect for IE to understand them.
A perfect example would be.
body{
background:#fff url(picture.jpg)no-repeat;
}
That piece of CSS will work on Firefox but not on IE7 (funny thing is that it MIGHT work on IE7 but [...]
During a makeover of a site I ran into a great site which puts up what that has been removed from strict xhtml and also a very good overview of all elements and attributes for different doctypes. You can search or browse all elements and see which attributes that are allowed which is of great [...]
I’m fiddling around with input styling and runned across this really nice article regarding styling input styles. Gives you a few nice tips and tricks to make your otherwise ugly input fields to nicelooking (and still userfriendly) input fields. Take a look at it
Here’s a nice list of five popular CSS frameworks and also what you need to get started using them. A Quote from the article:
Main features of good CSS Framework is to 1) rapidly speed up our development time, 2) should have a very small size, 3) have good documentation and tutorials and 4) [...]
Apperance is everything. That’s pretty much what goes around. Great SEO, cache and performance does often fall in the shadow of apperance, but that doens’t need to mean that pages that have great SEO, cache and performance have to look ugly. One trick to make a website look nice and trendy is to put your [...]