Rounded Corners Using CSS

One of the more popular things to do with CSS is to have elements with rounded corners. Some designers have even called this the holy grail of CSS. It is also one of those design elements that give your site a sophisticated and professional look. Most designers will tell you to achieve this look it is hard work, well don’t fear we can achieve the same look with a few lines of CSS.

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Rollovers using only CSS

In the past we have posted on how to create rollovers using CSS. To do this, we used a sprite to create the rollover effect. You can also create a rollover effect by using just CSS.

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Back to Basics: A Beginners guide to starting a CSS Document

Here’s a tip for you. Never let the browser to decide what your site will look like. What we’ll go over today is a quick and easy way of defining styles for common html tags that should dramatically cut down on the amount of guess work a browser will have to do to interpret your website. As you all know some of our more popular browsers **cough** IE **cough** tend not to display things as well as we want on their own.

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