Archive for the ‘CSS’ Category

An Elastic Thumbnail Menu November 21st, 2009
by Zeeshan

In an ongoing attempt to offer alternative methods to spruce up menus, I’ve pieced together an elastic thumbnail menu. What does it do exactly? Magnifies menu items when they are hovered over. Menu items expand upwards. View the demo to see it in action.

Using CSS Borders for Emphasis November 20th, 2009
by Zeeshan

Borders have a lot more impact than most people realize. They can make a design look miles better with only minutes of work. The little characteristics like weight, style, and color have big effects on either drawing elements out or making them fit into the background. Making a Box “Pop” Take a look at these [...]

Sexy Drop Down Menu w/ jQuery & CSS August 20th, 2009
by Zeeshan

Step1. HTML First create an unordered list for your base top navigation.Then simply nest another unordered list for your sub navigation.

CSS For Bar Graphs April 30th, 2009
by Munazza

Recently we’ve had to tackle some interesting visualizations which we coded in XHTML and CSS. The method we used, while fairly simple, was a big help to the engineer and created a very flexible and inexpensive solution. We thought we would share our solution and code in case anyone else ran against similar situations. Basic [...]

Better Zebra Tables March 15th, 2009
by Munazza

In large tables it’s often hard to focus on one row, making it hard to extract data from the table. There are various scripts (client–side as well as server–side) floating around the net that provide the ability to style odd/even table–rows to aid readability of tabular data. If you’re not interested in how this works [...]

5 Web design tips you should know about January 15th, 2009
by Munazza

Let’s face it, we’ve all seen Web sites that make us dizzy there’s so much going on. Or sites that may offer exactly what we’re looking for, but may require a private eye to find it. One of the biggest problems people have when designing Web sites is keeping it simple. They think Empire State [...]