DOCTYPE Explained

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Finally! The latest issue of A List Apart includes a lesson on Fixing Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE. This is terrific and I’m going to fix my pages as soon as I can. ALA saves the day (again!).

Movable Type Modifications

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Two Tricks from the MT Support Forum: How to Randomly Generate Entries How to Create a Printer-Friendly Template Of course if you are using CSS to its fullest, you can create printer-friendly pages by simply changing stylesheets. There is a tutorial at Evolt that explains how.

High-Pass Filter

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Write better web pages, free design from content, and resolve CSS browser-compatibility issues with Tantek’s High Pass Filter!

Menu Rollovers in CSS

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Brian Costner has compiled the best guide to designing menus using CSS Rollovers that exists to date. Check there for everything you need to know about creating a cross-browser-compliant css rollover menu.

Mixing Classes

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Hey! I didn’t know you could mix and match classes in css!

Source Viewer

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I found the mack-daddy of all bookmarklets at webgraphics this evening. This just absolutely rocks: Try it and see!

Shunting NN4

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Teambilly shows you how to send Netscape 4.x users to an alternate page. This is terrific. He even has a nice little message that explains to them what dorks they are.

Box Punching

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How does one punch out the corner of an element and put something in the space created?

Pattern Matching

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Excellent! I’ve finally found a simple explanation of selector pattern matching – all the > + and * you sometimes see in css – at BrainJar.com. So many things make so much more sense now …

Follow Me Here …

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Eliot at Follow Me Here … gave me kudos for helping him reformat his Blogger templates and css so that they would validate. I’m not really *that* altruistic. He was using a table-based design and because of the many images in his sidebar it took forever for me to load his page on my slow… Read more »

CSS Resource

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A ton of terrific type on Cascading Style Sheets at the Web Developer’s Virtual Library: Style Sheets allow you to control the rendering, e.g. fonts, colors, leading, margins, typefaces, and other aspects of style, of a Web document without compromising its structure. CSS is a simple style sheet mechanism that allows authors and readers to… Read more »

Themes

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Are these fonts too small? Anyone? I’ve been fooling with the themes here at the dg.net web-technology outpost. It’s all wacky css and javascript fun! If you have cookies disabled (You paranoid silly person!) you might not be getting the whole shebang when you view my site(s). Oh well. Clicking on the “themes” links over… Read more »