Archive for the ‘HTML and CSS’ Category

  1. What ‘is’ coding?

    This post is merely an explanation of a point I was trying to make on Twitter last night, but 140 characters just wasn’t enough.

  2. Working with LESS

    Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few months, you will have heard of LESS, a dynamic stylesheet language. Well, I’ve been using LESS for the past three months on an almost daily basis so I decided to share my experiences so far.

  3. Document identity

    About a year or so ago, around the time when everyone started using the HTML5 doctype, I noticed that many people were starting to give an id attribute to the html element.

  4. Why you should avoid using heights in CSS

    CSS is a very powerful tool and gives us a tremendous amount of control over how a website is displayed. Of course we all know about cross-browser issues etc. but this article is not about that. I want to talk a little bit about why you should avoid defining heights for containers in your stylesheets.

  5. Clearing floats in CSS

    When building websites using CSS we’ve learnt to overcome various layout problems, one of the most common being clearing floats. What I mean by this is when two elements within a container are floated the outer container collapses.

  6. My thoughts on using HTML5 today

    HTML5 is somewhat of a hot topic at the moment. The web is alight with designers and developers debating if, how and when we should be using it. Of course there is no right answer here but in my opinion there really is no reason why we can’t start using parts of this spec today.

  7. Divs and HTML5

    There seems to be a lot of confusion over if and how we can use the div tag in HTML5. This article on HTML5 Doctor should help clear things up a bit.

  8. The Rydz Design framework

    It’s not uncommon for web designers and developers to have their own framework these days. Both Erskine Design and Stuff and Nonsense have written about their Ultimate Package, whilst Dan Cederholm has written about his framework in his latest (and highly recommended) book, Handcrafted CSS. Now I’ve decided to share mine and explain it’s contents.

  9. Progressive enhancement on RydzDesign.co.uk

    Progressive enhancement is almost expected from any web designer worth his salt these days. To be honest I find this way of thinking a bit silly as it could lead to over the top designs with a million fancy CSS techniques that actually add nothing to the experience.

  10. Pure CSS speech bubbles

    No images or javascript, using only simple mark-up with a splash of border-radius, CSS gradients and generated content Nicolas achieves flexible speech bubbles that work across all major browsers, although things are obviously slightly icky in Internet Explorer, as one would expect.

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