Author Archives: Mike

A closer look at the max-width property

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Mike

I came across an interesting issue today with the max-width property. It’s a property that I’ve only used in a few occasions in the past – mainly due to the constraints of legacy browsers that do not support it. That … Continue reading →

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CSS3 Lessons: Multiple Background Images

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Mike

The CSS3 background property has been completed enhanced from it’s CSS 2.1 predecessor, with some really interesting new features that I plan on investigating in future articles. For the purposes of this article, I’ll be looking at the multiple image ability of the background-image property. Continue reading →

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Is your video content getting indexed?

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Mike

Read an interesting article the other day called Video SEO: A technical guide (by Joost de Valk) which goes into a in-depth explanation of video SEO. It is something that I had not really thought about previously – had really … Continue reading →

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A manageable method for creating CSS image sprites

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Mike

The technique for creating and using CSS image sprites has been around for quite some time now. However, they don’t seem to be used near enough, despite the performance bonuses they can deliver. Perhaps it is due to the fact … Continue reading →

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Demo: Dynamic Cross-browser Horizontally Fluid Menu

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Mike

The following is a solution that I came up with create a fluid horizontal navigation structure that met the following requirements: The navigation needed to be completely dynamic and not dependent on an update to a CSS file if items … Continue reading →

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