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09:19 pm GMT - Mon, November 28, 2011
CSS Tricks Play Music on Your Site with the Grooveshark Streaming API
Grooveshark is a web app for listening to music. You can search for any play just about any song there is. With an account you favorite stuff, build playlists, do social stuff, you know the drill. Per...
11:53 pm GMT - Sat, November 26, 2011
CSS Tricks New Navigation New Primary Sponsor
I just pushed out a new main navigation on the site. The reasons were twofold.One, I needed to add a few new sections to the site. Go check em out! I added a gallery section where I can post screensho...
11:56 pm GMT - Tue, November 22, 2011
CSS Tricks Simple Styles for Horizontal Rules
That is, the <hr> element. With the help of a few contributors, I put together this page of very simple styles for them. You could get a lot fancier with an element like a <div> that c...
10:49 pm GMT - Mon, November 21, 2011
CSS Tricks Reader Question about Hosting
A reader (who wishes to remain anonymous) wrote in asking me about web hosting. They had a bunch of requirements:Wishes to resell hosting to clients and charge them monthly (currently charges $50/yea...
12:27 am GMT - Sun, November 20, 2011
CSS Tricks Interview
Kevin Dees interviewed me. We talked about all kinds of front-endy stuff, this site, and other fun stuff. (video)Direct Link to Article — PermalinkInterview is a post from CSS-Tricks...
08:59 am GMT - Sat, November 19, 2011
CSS Tricks Using Fonts for Icons
...is a good idea, I'm telling you.I've created this page to attempt to convince you. It shows examples and lists six reasons why it's a good idea and three common arguments against them (some of whic...
04:06 am GMT - Fri, November 18, 2011
CSS Tricks Sharing
I just added "The Big Three" sharing buttons to articles on this site: Twitter, Google Plus, and Facebook. I've shared my thoughts on sharing buttons like this in the past. I essentially decided that ...
08:59 pm GMT - Thu, November 17, 2011
CSS Tricks Bubble Point Tooltips with CSS3 & jQuery
I needed some tooltips for a thing. In looking around for a little inspiration, I didn't have to go further than my dock:The inspiration: contextual menus from OS X dockThis is where I ended up:View D...
03:13 am GMT - Wed, November 16, 2011
CSS Tricks Vendor Prefixes, yadda yadda yadda, strong opinions
Henri Sivonen:I think vendor prefixes are hurting the Web. They are hurting Web authors. They are hurting users of browsers. They are hurting competition in the Web browser space.I'm tempted to raise ...
08:27 pm GMT - Tue, November 15, 2011
CSS Tricks Blue Beanie of Thankfulness
November 30th, 2011 is Blue Beanie Day. It's a (quite literal) hat tip to Jeffrey Zeldman, his book Designing with Web Standards, and a show of support for web standards.I regret to say that I've neve...
09:06 pm GMT - Mon, November 14, 2011
CSS Tricks Five Questions with Tab Atkins
Tab Atkins (Twitter) is a member of the CSS working group and contributor to several other working groups in the W3C. He works for Google on the Google Chrome Team. Browsers and specs are the bones an...
03:19 am GMT - Thu, November 10, 2011
CSS Tricks YesNo Ipsum!
I've heard a number of people make statements lately like: "If you're using Lorem Ipsum text, just stop it." Or similar. That argument, expanded, goes something like this. Design exists to serve conte...
04:48 am GMT - Wed, November 9, 2011
CSS Tricks The Future, Glassy?
Bret Victor:Now, take out your favorite Magical And Revolutionary Technology Device. Use it for a bit.What did you feel? Did it feel glassy? Did it have no connection whatsoever with the task you were...
12:36 am GMT - Tue, November 8, 2011
CSS Tricks CSS3 Secrets
I bet there is a couple things in this slide deck from Lea Verou that you didn't know about CSS3.Direct Link to Article — PermalinkCSS3 Secrets is a post from CSS-Tricks...
08:22 am GMT - Fri, November 4, 2011
CSS Tricks LiveReload
Mac users, this is really worth checking out. As you work on local projects, you have your HTML and CSS open in your text editor of choice, and the web page open in a browser. With LiveReload, as soon...
02:17 am GMT - Fri, November 4, 2011
CSS Tricks jQuery 1.7 Released
You'll probably start seeing .on() and .off() on tutorial sites so just a heads up, that's new syntax for event binding in jQuery (although all the old methods still work too).Direct Link to Article &...
08:26 pm GMT - Thu, November 3, 2011
CSS Tricks Columns and the Greatest Common Divisor
I was recently putting together some CSS for columns. There was a few pre-determined widths that the columns needed to accommodate. For whatever reason (maybe because every grid framework in the world...
07:13 pm GMT - Tue, November 1, 2011
CSS Tricks Five Questions with Lea Verou
Lea is a front end web developer from Greece. You have likely heard of her, as ever since she started blogging in English (read more about that below), she's had quite a boom in popularity. Or perhaps...
06:33 pm GMT - Mon, October 31, 2011
CSS Tricks A Call for ::nth-everything
We already have ::first-letter and ::first-line which are useful. Why not expand those out into a full set of selectors that follow the same pattern of the ::nth-child family? I attempt to make the ca...