If you are using LESS, or any other CSS extender such as SASS or SCSS, you’ve no doubt realized the power of Mixins. For those unfamiliar, Mixins allow you to embed properties of one class inside another class or ID. When extended with variables, Mixins can be a powerful tool for improving speed and consistency [...]
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Stylized buttons with only CSS/HTML
These are a sampling of 5 HTML/CSS only buttons. They should work nicely in modern browsers, and maintain functionality in older browsers – but I only tested in latest Chrome and FireFox. I’d like to put out a pack of 20-30 different icons in a single style at some point, but for now these give [...]
Announcing PSD to Tumblr!
Over the last 12 to 18 months requests for PSD to Tumblr Theme conversion have greatly increased, from a handful in 2009 to several inquiries per week in October of this year. We started accepting PSD to Tumblr orders in March of this year, and are now turning them out regularly. We’ve now reached enough [...]
Free Fonts for @font-face
@font-face is here. More accurately, it’s been here for years in various browsers with varying degrees of support. Internet Explorer 6 was the first major standards-based browser to support @font-face way back in 2001. So what was the hold up? Browser support, licensing, and format disagreements all contributed. Thankfully as of last year that’s all [...]
Working with the Flexible Box Layout Module (CSS3)
One of the most common reasons I see tables used for layout (in otherwise properly developed sites) is the need for a flexible box sizing method. Table cells can stretch in either direction to accommodate the size of the content around them, and even align their content vertically. This, sadly, has long been unavailable to [...]