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Understanding a browser’s default CSS

Mike Badgley — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:51:29 +0000

On the heels of my recent post on the potential pitfalls of using CSS resets, this post continues in that same vein. The question of why we even need to use a CSS reset is a good place to start. (…)

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How to achieve vertical text with CSS

Mike Badgley — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:09:31 +0000

Jeffrey Way, of Nettuts+ had an interesting problem this morning that he posed to the Twitter community which was finding the easiest way to create vertical text with CSS. A number of suggestions were put forth – some using JavaScript (…)

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A closer look at the max-width property

Mike Badgley — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:15:14 +0000

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 (…)

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Inline-Block whitespace workaround

Mike Badgley — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:13:01 +0000

In response to an article written yesterday (April 26th, 2010) about the inline-block display property on Impressive Webs, there was some debate on unwanted whitespace that appears to the right of elements that are styled with this property. If you (…)

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Using a unitless line-height to enhance your typography

Mike Badgley — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:52:45 +0000

I came across a fairly old article on Web typography (by Eric Meyer) this morning that I found pretty interesting and thought I would share some of my feelings on the subject matter. Up to this point I’ve been doing (…)

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The problem with Web sites not being friendly to my printer

Mike Badgley — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:20:48 +0000

On an almost daily basis, there are web articles I come across that contain great tips or something I didn’t know that I’d like to read more on. Given the fact that I usually don’t have the time at that (…)

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Solving the font issue for Web designers

Mike Badgley — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:38:07 +0000

If you’re like me, then you are probably sick of being forced to use background images for headers that use a non-generic font. How much time is wasted in slicing these images, let alone all the extra rules that need (…)

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The “Web” disease of falling behind

Mike Badgley — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:16:34 +0000

The thought occurred to me this morning, as I did my daily routine of reading through my long list of RSS feeds, that I was in danger of falling behind and becoming out of touch with the current trends and (…)

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Date Display Technique using CSS Sprites

Mike Badgley — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:50:23 +0000

This is a follow-up to an article published today by Chris Coyier of CSS Tricks. If you haven’t read the article already, I encourage you to do so first before implementing my proposed tweaks in the following post. To recap, (…)

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Launch of Sun Life Financial “ParticipACTION” micro site

Mike Badgley — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:21:02 +0000

Last week we prepared a series of three HTML templates for a small micro site that Sun Life Financial is doing for ParticipACTION. Sun Life wants you to get moving. This summer the ParticipACTION Sun Life – Inspire the nation (…)

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