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Framing your images using CSS

So you have this awesome autographed picture of Carrot Top that you got after months of waiting from his fan website, and you’d like to put it up on your website to prove your fanhood. The problem is you don’t have Photoshop or Fireworks handy to put a nice frame around it, and you’d like [...]

Custom Textfield Background

The benefits to designing your own custom html text fields for use within your site can give you a completely personal look and feel that is totally your own. There are however, also some key disadvantages to this process. You can create any type of design, then use CSS to replace the actual text [...]

Basic Concepts using CSS

CSS is simple enough to control a few page elements. CSS is a very powerful tool. Stretch your imagination, with CSS you can create what you really want your page, layout, or site to look like is only limited to the amount of time you want to spend designing.

One Background Image, Many Applications

Guest post by Chris Coyier of CSS Tricks, a blog sharing tips, tricks, and tutorials on using cascading style sheets.
Almost every single CSS property supports the background property. This property alone gives CSS incredible aesthetic control over web layouts. But keep in mind that images are the biggest culprits in increasing page weight and slowing [...]

A Webpage with Alternate User-selectable Stylesheets

Guest post by Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks.com, a blog sharing tips, tricks, and tutorials on using cascading style sheets.
You may know that you can link to multiple style sheets from a single page. This can be very useful, especially on larger websites where you may have a universal style sheet declaring things like overall page [...]