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Maxims
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Aphorisms
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Review of The Lexicographer's Dilemma
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Topic :Books

gpullman@gsu.edu
Published: 02-14 2006
Title: tables with alternating colors
Topic: CSS

http://24ways.org/advent/splintered-striper

Published: 12-03 2005
Title: Icons
Topic: CSS

http://www.intersmash.com/300images/

Published: 10-04 2005
Title: Menu hover
Topic: CSS

A nice example of a nav bar with hover from Sitepoint.com and The CSS Anthology

#navigation {
 width: 200px;
 font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
#navigation ul {
 list-style: none;
 margin: 0;
 padding: 0;
}
#navigation li {
 border-bottom: 1px solid #ED9F9F;
}
#navigation li a:link, #navigation li a:visited  {
 display: block;
 padding: 5px 5px 5px 0.5em;
 border-left: 12px solid #711515;
 border-right: 1px solid #711515;
 background-color: #B51032;
 color: #FFFFFF;
 text-decoration: none;
}
#navigation li a:hover {
 background-color: #711515;
 color: #FFFFFF;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="navigation">
  <ul>
    <li><a href="#">Recipes</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Contact Us</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Articles</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Buy Online</a></li>
  </ul>
</div>



Published: 10-04 2005
Title: Fieldset
Topic: CSS

Found this interesting technique in Rachel Andrew's The CSS Antology published by Sitepoint. It produces

Personal Information

form p label {
  float: left;
  width: 30%;
  font: bold 0.9em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
fieldset {
  border: 1px dotted #61B5CF;
  margin-top: 16px;
  padding: 10px;
}
legend {
  font: bold 0.8em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  color: #00008B;
  background-color: #FFFFFF;
}

<body>
<form method="post" action="fieldset.html">
  <fieldset>
    <legend>Personal Information</legend>
    <p>
      <label for="fullname">Name:</label>
      <input type="text" name="fullname" id="fullname" class="txt" />
    </p>
    <p>
      <label for="email">Email Address:</label>
      <input type="text" name="email" id="email" class="txt" />
    </p>
    <p>
      <label for="password1">Password:</label>
      <input type="password" name="password1" id="password1" class="txt" />
    </p>
    <p>
      <label for="password2">Confirm Password:</label>
      <input type="password" name="password2" id="password2" class="txt" />
    </p>
  </fieldset> 



Published: 10-03 2005
Title: Navigation -- light-up current page
Topic: CSS

There's an article at Sitepoint that among other things explains how to make a navigation system that indicates which page a person is viewing using plain html and css. The gist of it is, lable each body tag with an id etc. and then define an id and a class for each page a user will navigate to:

Next, you create a new CSS rule:

body#home .home, #about .about, #about .about, #contact .contact
{
background:blue;
}

 



Published: 08-09 2005
Title: Menu scripts
Topic: CSS

A great collection of CSS based menu scripts (link).

Published: 07-21 2005
Title: Links Styling
Topic: CSS

a.nav:link {color: #336699;}
a.nav:visited {color: #666699;}
a.nav:hover {color: #000000; border: 1px solid green; background-color: #ccc;}
a.nav:active {color: #336699;}

/*resource box style */
a.res {font-weight: bold;}
a.res:link {color: red;}
a.res:visited {color: red;}
a.res:hover {color: orange;}
a.res:active {color: red;}

HTML:


<A class=nav href="link.html">Nav 1
<A class=nav href="link.html">Nav 2
<A class=nav href="link.html">Nav 3
<A class=nav href="link.html">Nav 4


<A class=res href="link.html">Res 1
<A class=res href="link.html">Res 2
<A class=res href="link.html">Res 3
< class=res href="link.html">Res 4


Published: 11-16 2004
Title: CSS menu generator
Topic: CSS

This is a JS and CSS tool that makes it easy to create a dropdown menu like the kind found in all software programs and on many websites. As far as I can tell, the code it makes is cross browser compatible. And its Free!. (link)

Published: 08-22 2004
Title: Smart Quotes in ASCII
Topic: CSS

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„
†
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•
…
‰
€
™
 –
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‘
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‚
“
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„
†
‡
•
…
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en dash
em dash
left single quotation mark
right single quotation mark
single low-9 quotation mark
left double quotation mark
right double quotation mark
double low-9 quotation mark
dagger
double dagger
bullet
horizontal ellipsis
per thousand sign
euro sign
trade mark sign
a more complete list

Published: 07-13 2004
Title: Cool table styles
Topic: CSS

Great examples of stylized tables.

http://www.bowdoin.edu/templates/tables.html



Published: 07-05 2004
Title: Photo site
Topic: CSS

While image ladden websites are slow loading and rarely worth the effort, a few well chosen and properly placed photographs create a mood better than any other technique. The problem is finding decent images without paying for them. There's a site called the stock.xchng that offers free images that have been uploaded by users. You have to give your contact info.



Published: 06-20 2004
Title: Color Theory
Topic: CSS

Actually, a better title would be some good sites for color theory. There's a $40.00 program called color wheel pro that helps you select and blend colors. It looks pretty good, but the site that supports and promotes it is very good.

There's also a terrific hexidecimal color sellector at pixy.cz

 



Published: 06-14 2004
Title: CssCreator
Topic: CSS

A very handy wysiwyg tool for creating style sheets for free:

http://www.csscreator.com

 



Published: 03-19 2004
Title: css menu
Topic: CSS

There's a nice explanation of how to use css and the li command to make a menu that is context sensitive at PVII. (link)

Published: 01-27 2004
Title: navigation with highlights
Topic: CSS

Tutorial about how to create a context sinsitive css navigation tool.

http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/personal/experiments/cssnav/index.html



Published: 01-13 2004
Title: CSS magazine
Topic: CSS

Digital Web Magazine

Published: 10-15 2003
Title: Float tag tutorial
Topic: CSS

The folks at maxdesign have another great css tutorial. This one is on using the float tag to isolate various items on a page, images, drop caps, etc. (link)

Published: 10-11 2003
Title: vertical orientation
Topic: CSS

MS IE 5.5 and later has a css property called layout-flow: vertical-ideographic; designed to make it possible to set up text to read top to bottom and right to left, for langauges that are read that way. I realized that it could be used to embelish english text. (link) 

Published: 09-30 2003
Title: Layout_o_matic
Topic: CSS

To go with list-o-matic (link)



Published: 09-28 2003
Title: Another color picker
Topic: CSS

This one runs off the net and shows contrasts. (link)

Published: 09-26 2003
Title: color picker online
Topic: CSS

Thanks to michael haynes for this link to a color scheme selection tool. (link)

Published: 09-21 2003
Title: Menu making software
Topic: CSS

List-O-Matic is a site that offers css code for rolloever menus based on Eric Meyer's style book as well as others.

Published: 09-17 2003
Title: Lists with style
Topic: CSS

A while ago i blogged a site listomatic that has a nice tut on stylizing lists. I've just found its companion site "Listorial" which offers more about sylizing ordered and unordered lists.  (link)

Published: 09-07 2003
Title: Color chart with names and codes
Topic: CSS

(link) Because high contrast between background and text is critical for readability, once you choose a color you should know its opposite. There's a piece of javascript that will do that for you. (link)

 



Published: 09-06 2003
Title: List-a-matic
Topic: CSS

A site offering lists revamped using various CSS. (link)

Published: 08-22 2003
Title: Tables and the framing command
Topic: CSS

This is strictly html, not css, but anyway. There's an html command called frames that is associated wth tables. It lets you create half tables: 

With frame="below":

First Row
Second Row
See w3schools



Published: 08-22 2003
Title: Newspaper layout
Topic: CSS

An example of a three column layout that demonstrates css properties float and clear (link).

Published: 08-01 2003
Title: CSS Examples
Topic: CSS

From HTML The Complete Reference Guide, 3rd edition, a nice collection of examples.

Published: 07-19 2003
Title: Mandarin design - - CSS advice
Topic: CSS

Here's a link to very good blog site on CSS: text effects, boxes, color chart, etc.



Published: 07-14 2003
Title: A wiki on css
Topic: CSS

link

Published: 06-08 2003
Title: CSS FAQ
Topic: CSS

The HTML Writer's Guild FAQ on Cascading Style Sheets. (link)

Published: 05-25 2003
Title: CSS Blog
Topic: CSS

Simon Wilson's Weblog covers php, python, css, and xml. (link)

Published: 05-12 2003
Title: Zen Garden
Topic: CSS

A site about the out limits of CSS design. (link)

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