Did you know that you can create transparent images and divs very easy just by using CSS?
Here is how to do it:
<img src=”yourImage.jpg” width=”150″ height=”150″ alt=”image”
style=”opacity:0.4;filter:alpha(opacity=40)” />
In this example I used a image but you can also do it with divs and text.
Firefox uses “opacity” and IE uses “filter”. This is not a css standard [...]

I had some questions on how the elastic layout used in the “Summer Romance” template works.
Elastic layouts are cool because they scale perfectly when your visitor want to adjust the font size in his or her browser, even the images scale. It’s not “the perfect solution” but it’s fun to try new things. We are [...]

The difference between margin and padding in css can be a bit confusing.
Margin is the space outside an element, while padding is the space inside an element. To illustrate this I have posted this image, which should explain it quite well.

You cannot use negative values with padding, but with margins you can.

A member asked me for a css flyout menu for Delicious Fruit and I pointed her to Stu Nicholls’s great CSSplay site. The menu she wanted to use was this one
If you are new to css it may be quite hard to adapt this to the template so I made it a bit easier. If [...]

Today I made 4 different css templates:

2 Column fixed layout
3 column fixed layout
3 column fluid layout
4 column fluid layout

I thought this would be great for beginners learning css or for those of you who just want some simple “skeletons” to work with. All four templates should be very easy to edit and could even become [...]

If you want to create cool and accessible websites, CSS (Cascading style sheets) is the way to go. All modern websites should use CSS based layouts instead of those messy table layouts. Learning the basics of CSS is quite simple. The CSS syntax is made up of three parts: a selector, a property and [...]