Posts about “css”

Box Punching

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

Pattern Matching

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 …

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

CSS Resource

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

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 there in the sidebar should allow you to change the entire look of this site. Which do you like? Which do you hate? Do you even care? Well. So. Okay then. Just trying to make you happy. That’s what I do here. I’m all about being user-friendly.

Web Design

The webbedENVIRONMENTS site, from the author of DHTML and CSS for the World Wide Web: 2nd ed has been in my link list for years. There are some terrific essays here, including a good frames / no frames argument.

Themes

Notes on the design of this site

Fun with Design

I’ll be doing all sorts of crazy testing stuff here in the next few hours. Like this post for example. Woo! Anything can happen on a wild afternoon in Los Angeles.

So… I’ve changed so much of this site in the last few hours it’s not even funny. The css was revised and updated. There are actually now five distinct style sheets. Choose which one you like best! (The choices are in the sidebar.) I also modified a hunka buncha the javascript, took all of it from the individual pages and crammed it into one juicy .js file. I’ve stolen from bratta.com and scottandrew.com. Visit them for goodies.

Sharks!

The CSShark Frequently Asked Questions page is a useful resource for designers.

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.