Category Archives: CSS

The “Web” disease of falling behind

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Mike

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 … Continue reading →

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Date Display Technique using CSS Sprites

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Mike

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, … Continue reading →

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Launch of Sun Life Financial “ParticipACTION” micro site

Posted on July 6, 2009 by Mike

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 … Continue reading →

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Suckerfish implementation of CSS dropdown menu

Posted on July 3, 2009 by Mike

Late last week, a client contacted us with a request to add a dropdown menu to their Web site. Being a fairly content-heavy site, this made a lot of sense. So often, when coming up with designs and wireframes for … Continue reading →

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CSS length units you’ve never used

Posted on June 17, 2009 by Mike

I’ve been doing CSS layouts for quite some time now and it is safe to say that I’ve never used most of the length units that are available with the CSS 2.1 specification. If you’re like me, you’ve used pixels … Continue reading →

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