Web Design CSS Bookmarking List Summer 2008

Snook says that if your are trying to keep track of headers in your css, try to declare specifications all in one line. I might try to do this in the future when I get better at designing; describing an h3's colors, font size and background in one single line.

This article will help you convert your website designed in photoshop to a real css layout. For many people like myself who can't draw for their lives, I like to use photoshop and similar programs to plot out how I want things to look first. It is usually hard to translate my ideas onto paper, and even harder to translate the paper to a webpage. For those of you with troubles like these, rest them aside.

Cool tricks mostly for paragraph set ups. Ever wanted to have a floating paragraph in your website? Use this page to learn how! "Spicing up lenses"

I think this is a pretty good website background site. It has some nice wallpapers. If you click on the thumbnail wallpaper, you are taken to a screen with that wallpaper as the wallpaper of the site. There are different colored texts all over the page. How do you get the background on your computer? All you do is right click and save the image to your computer!

This is a quick guide useful to refer to when you forget what words to use for what command. I often find myself forgetting what certain alignments do and which words mean what when clicked. This is a cheat sheet for those who are forgetful, or when stressful times lead to forgetting the basics.

This is a little bit of information on why we should even consider using CSS. At times wrtiting the CSS was very frustrating. If the CSS Zen Garden wasn't proof enough why we should use the "tool", this article will give you more insight to the benefits of CSS>

This site has a list of free CSS templates. I think I'll be using one to construct my revised professional site

Free! Well, this takes part of the thinking out the design progess. This site offers free css templates that you can preview and then download if you'd like. Something to try next time you are in a crunch.

Here's a great site to style the images you have inserted on your html document by floating them in specific areas of the page.

I don't know about you, but clear and float confuse me. This site is helpful in distinguishing when to use these functions. It also explains why these properties are needed.

Here is a little something extra to add to your page. Using the css code provided, you can format the cursor on your page. Cool!

This is a great site for free downloadable fonts. I am using this for my professional site.

HTML Dog has probably been the most useful tool in this whole ordeal for me. Here, in the intermediate tutorial, Patrick Griffiths explains the difference from the ID and the div tags. ID tag's identify a particular rule, whereas divs describe classes. Though not vital information, this can probably help alleviate some frustration, and for that, it's worth checkint out.

By now, most of us can reasonably use many basic functions of html and css. This function, allowing the designer to adjust the margin size, may be helpful. I will be using it on my site..

As we learned in class the other day, a page must be able to handle smaller and larger text sizes appropriately. Some of our pages, mine included, looked like they were too small when the text was increased. This article, shows you how to change text size on your own. You may or may not need it, but it certainly helps to use it if you're not sure if your page will look right with larger text.

This list-o-matic website, used ironically enough, to create lists on your webpages, is exceptionally useful, if you haven't used it yet. It is found on the accessify.com site, and you can copy/paste the url at the top of this window. I may be using it for my page.

This site provides insight into tags that increase accessibility for web viewing, printing, etc.

Provides a quick reference for tags, what they do, and how to use them...

How to download and test fonts

All about fonts and CSS. If you have any friends how are graphic artists, then you know that fonts are a big deal to them. They somehow many to become addicted to fonts...

I bookmarked this for three reasons: 1.) It is filled with CSS tips. 2.) It's the first CSS tip sites I've found that has a great CSS design (credibility) 3.) It's actually funny. Enjoy