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Have you ever wanted to make a resizable box with rounded (or any shape) corners, custom borders, and a transparent shadow? Did you also want to do that without cluttering your markup with a bunch of non-semantic div elements? Now you can.
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Create mini tabs using standard and compatible CSS and HTML
With the helpful concepts explained on Eric Meyer’s article, a while ago I turned to inline one of the nicest horizontal menus in its simplicity: the famous Mini Tabs by Dan Cederholm. I thought I’d share here the results.
Inline Mini Tabs

What is a Landing Page?
A landing page is the page visitors arrive at after clicking on your promotional creative.
Your landing page has to convince the visitor to stay and (depending on your goal):
* Fill out a form (but people hate filling out forms)
* Provide personal details (but […]

CSS styling of unordered lists to create tabbed menu navigation with high quality and refined graphics.
Sliding Doors of CSS: A List Apart

Having tried, trusted and standardised approach to Web development would go a long way to helping avoid the mistakes we all see over and over again. We need a Web methodology. However, finding a methodology that seems suited to Web development is not easy; making it work in the real world is even harder.
As the […]

Most tutorials on the styling of CSS lists for menus use unordered lists, which, for people starting out with CSS, can be a little difficult to grasp as the use of unordered lists requires extra styling to remove the bullets.
In this tutorial I demonstrate how to style a Definition List, which is equally suitable for […]

Web Design Practices is a site devoted to helping designers understand what design practices are currently in use on the Web—and aims to gather research about the usability of commonly-employed design practices.
The data presented on this site are intended to inform design decisions, not dictate them. Common practice does not necessarily equate with best practice—and […]

A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design. Select any style sheet from the list to load it into this page.
css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design

Vitaly Friedman kindly suggested to StraTechnologist his enormous resource for Web developers and I happily report his work here for you:
“Web-Dev-Bookmarks” is a list of essential web-sites, tutorials, references and examples (related to CSS Navigation Menus, CSS- & HTML-Techniques, Layouts, Accessibility, Usability, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) etc.) which make the life of web developers […]

I think that probably the debate on Fixed against liquid will never find a definitive word. But now perhaps there’s another option: the Progressive Layout. In this article, that is a small extract from the Italian version, we’ll see how to easily turn with Javascript a CSS-based layout (fixed or fluid doesn’t matter) into a […]