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• The CSS Anthology from Sitepoint

  25 August 2009 by Clive Walker

  The third edition of The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Trick and Hacks by Rachel Andrew is now available from Sitepoint.

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• Using advanced CSS selectors

  18 August 2009 by Clive Walker

  There's a good article called Taming Advanced CSS Selectors by Inayaili de León on the Smashing Magazine website.

• CSS Tip: Placing text on top of an image

  12 August 2009 by Clive Walker

  The other day, I needed to add a strap line or caption on top of an image. Yes, I can do this in an image editor like Photoshop or Fireworks but I wanted to compare an alternative method using CSS. The CSS method also has the advantage that the text will be read by search engines. Anyway, here's how I chose to to do it.

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• Please start from the beginning....

  04 August 2009 by Clive Walker

  Ryan Taylor has been producing a series of video interviews with famous web folks for a few months. The series is called Please Start from the Beginning.

• Rotate text with CSS

  30 July 2009 by Clive Walker

  Jonathan Snook published an interesting blog post recently where he described text rotation with CSS.

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• It's time to stop supporting Internet Explorer 6, surely?

  27 July 2009 by Clive Walker

  Just now, I fired up an old Windows 98 PC to look at a recent website amendment in Internet Explorer 6. That means using a PC that is approximately eight years old to view my website in a browser of a similar age. How ridiculous is that?

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• Web fonts make progress

  21 July 2009 by Clive Walker

  There has been quite a lot of progress on the subject of web fonts in recent months. Rather than sticking to a core set of web-safe fonts, web designers might soon be able to use a much wider range, by choosing one of several new methods. Here's a short summary of recent developments.

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• Multi-column layout with CSS3 (and some JavaScript)

  13 July 2009 by Clive Walker

  There’s a common newspaper and print layout method where the text of an article is arranged over several columns. This makes the article easer to read and looks quite nice visually. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do this with CSS? Well, in fact this is perfectly possible using the multi-column layout module that is part of the CSS3 specification. Whilst browser support for this is patchy, the module is now approaching candidate recommendation status, and the method can still be implemented using proprietary but well-supported CSS rule prefixes like moz and webkit in your style sheets. For browsers that do not support the multi-column layout module in any form, there’s a useful JavaScript solution.

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• Handcrafted CSS - a new book from that Bulletproof Web Design guy

  03 July 2009 by Clive Walker

  Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design by Dan Cederholm and Ethan Marcotte is a new book [and DVD] due in August.

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• Aligning your CSS properties .... and using a few different ones

  24 June 2009 by Clive Walker

  Well, that was a slight surprise. I looked at the visitors statistics for this blog yesterday and discovered that more than 70% of you are not using Internet Explorer.

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