CSS
The Many Faces of the Hyperlink
The World Wide Web is built on links. It thrives because links are everywhere. There are links to the various pages on individual sites. There are links from one site to another. There are links in e-mails to websites. There are links in PDFs and documents to Web pages. Chances are, you used a link to get to this article. Yet, when it comes to setting up a website, styling and consideration of links is often overlooked. Or worse, specific choices for links are made that end up hurting the usability and interaction of your website. … Continue reading CSS Shorthand: an Introduction
One of the things I see most often in beginners’ CSS is an utter lack of shorthand for style declarations. The cause may be that their existence is never mentioned in basic CSS tutorials, or that they’re never discussed in-depth enough for new developers to feel comfortable using them. Or, in some cases, simple ones are used without understanding exactly what is going on. I honestly don’t know why, but hopefully I can clear up some of their mystique so that these handy bits of code can be useful to all and sundry. … Continue reading
