Loud Dog Links

December 19, 2009

• What You Need To Know About Behavioral CSS (Smashing Magazine)
  Interesting article on new interactive behaviors in CSS3.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: css, webdesign

November 17, 2009

• 20 Email Design Best Practices and Resources for Beginners
  A great resource for creating HTML formatted emails.
  by: Matt DeClaire | tags: css, design, development, email

September 25, 2009

• Ultimate IE6 Cheatsheet: How To Fix 25+ Internet Explorer 6 Bugs
  These skills will sadly be relevant for some time to come.
  by: Matt DeClaire | tags: css, ie6, javascript, programming, webdev

April 24, 2009

• How to Use the Sticky Footer HTML & CSS Code
  A potential strategy for the toolbox. I'm going to try it out before giving it a yeah/nay.
  by: Matt DeClaire | tags: css

April 21, 2009

• Fluid Images (Unstoppable Robot Ninja)
  Sweet technique for creating images that adjust to page width.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: css, webdesign, webdevelopment

April 16, 2009

• 10 Cool Things We'll Be Able To Do Once IE6 Is Dead
  I can't wait.
  by: Matt DeClaire | tags: css

March 31, 2009

• Styleneat - CSS Organizer
  Tool to automatically format your stylesheets. I don't like the way it formats - it doesn't follow our coding standards - but it's interesting nonetheless.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: css, development

March 4, 2009

• CSS Border Slants
  This has been around for a while, and it is a hack, but it shows ingenuity and can be incredibly useful.
  by: Matt DeClaire | tags: css, design

February 5, 2009

• Recreating the button (stopdesign)
  Great article from Douglas Bowman on creating Gmail's new buttons with CSS only and no images. It's been a while since I noticed anything from Bowman - good to see him posting again.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: css, webdesign

January 9, 2009

• Push Your Web Design Into The Future With CSS3 | CSS | Smashing Magazine
  A nice little article describing some of the sophisticated techniques/capabilities of CSS3 already being used on bleeding edge websites.
  by: Martin Ferrini | tags: code, css, css3, design, development, inspiration, style, Web, webdesign, webdev

January 8, 2009

• CSS Fun: Flag Deprecated HTML Tags
  I thought this was a fun article.
  by: Matt DeClaire | tags: css

December 18, 2008

• Dropdown low down
  An excellent roud-up of all the dropdown menu options out there.
  by: Matt DeClaire | tags: css, design, javascript

December 10, 2008

• CSS Test
  I had a conversation with Josh about this very concept the other day. I'll be watching the project.
  by: Matt DeClaire | tags: css, development, test

November 4, 2008

• Conditional classnames (paulhammond.org)
  Oh, this is clever. Instead of using different stylesheets, use conditionals to load different classes in the HTML. It may not be a very maintainable solution, but it's certainly clever.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: css, webdevelopment

November 1, 2008

• Elegant Web Typography (Jeft Croft)
  Interesting presentation on web typography; contains some good rules of thumb.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: css, design, webDesign

September 29, 2008

• CSS Systems for writing maintainable CSS
  by: Matt DeClaire | tags: css

September 17, 2008

• Highlight form contexts using CSS only
  Interesting example uses input[type=text]:focus to highlight the element.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: css

August 26, 2008

• CSS Sprites2 - It's JavaScript Time
  Useful JavaScript article. Good point about using Google's hosted copy of JQuery.
  by: Matt DeClaire | tags: css, design, development, javascript, jquery, tutorial

July 7, 2008

• Code Style: CSS font sampler and survey of the most common fonts for CSS font-family properties
  A great resource for designers and developers alike!
  by: Martin Ferrini | tags: CSS, design, fonts, typography, Web, webdesign

May 15, 2008

• Google Doctype - Google Code
  A reference library by and for web developers. Groovy!
  by: Martin Ferrini | tags: code, css, design, dev, development, Web, webdesign, xhtml