I really like the 960gs, but I want to make an adaptive site. So I’ve been on the hunt for a css framework that includes 2 things: a set of media queries, a set of grid classes. It’s been frustrating since many of the frameworks seems to have one but not the other. Read on for my process…
Working on a new personal site design. I decided against wordpress since it takes too long for me to go through and update all the templates to my wishes. One of the new things I’m trying is responsive design and CSS3. Try resizing the window… New homepage (work in progress)
Ok- so after going to a phonegap SF meetup tonight– I got super excited and needed to get something done tonight. I needed to get something small done since I only had about 3 hours. Goal: Generate & show QR code on iphone simulator Started by following this tutorial on embedding a map: Building your …
I just learned that you can add more than 1 background image to an element through CSS. It appeared in one of my student’s CSS exercises and I was floored! Could multiple background images be a solution to create the infamous rounded corners? Simple answer: YES. Continue readingRounded Corners in CSS tutorial
Update 2010, Oct 26 – New discoveries, much better font reference confidence Recently I needed to work with some Chinese and we had tons of trouble trying to figure out which fonts to use and how to specify them in CSS. After a lot of detective work and comparing long font lists we found some …
IE can’t deal with PNG’s. It makes them opaque- kinda defeats the purpose…Here’s a solution to fix png display in IE. It makes directX display pngs instead of IE.Code that works
Set your site’s base (all links will think of it as the site root) Say your page is located at: yukiko/pages/news/IGotAJob.html In your page’s <head> tag put the root page: <base href=”yukiko/index.php”> So instead of linking relative to the page, <img href=”yukiko/index.php” src=”/images/janitor.jpg” /> a link will be relative to the site root. <img …
A note to whomever (probably myself): When trying to specify Helvetica as a font-family in CSS, make sure that you use the full “Helvetica Plain” tag in quotes. Otherwise, safari, (I’m testing on v2.0.4) will default to Helvetica Fractions. It will look like: