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CSS Tricks

• Quickie CSS3 Tricks with Fallbacks November 6, 2009
  CSS3 can do some seriously neat stuff. Just check out some of the crazy 3D stuff you can do in WebKit. But as we all know, we need to be careful with what we choose to do with it. The most cutting edge techniques are fun to play with, but since since only a [...]
  Chris Coyier
• New Poll: How do you format your CSS? November 4, 2009
  The poll is in the sidebar, so jump down there to vote. You can see examples of the different ways to format CSS here. I think that covers most of the popular ways to format CSS, but if you have your own unique way, feel free to post some code or a link to [...]
  Chris Coyier
• Poll Results: When Do Jobs Get Done? November 3, 2009
  When this poll first kicked off, the “late” options were way ahead. Over time, things have evened off a bit, and the results are closer than I thought they might be. If you are in the on time or early crowd, congrats! That means you are really good at estimating project completion times. For the [...]
  Chris Coyier
• Holy Sprites November 2, 2009
  Lots of folks joined in on the fun with the Show Off Your Sprites! contest. I used the ol’ random number generator and came up with Lee Kowalkowski as the big winner, congrats Lee! Now let’s take a look at some of the submissions. Looking at sprites I find strangely fascinating. It’s like this strange [...]
  Chris Coyier
• Redesigned Personal Site October 30, 2009
  As I do from time to time, I redesigned my personal site (redesign notes). I wanted to make the site a better vessel for writing, so the shell of the site has a much nicer structure for doing that. It’s 100% WordPress of course. I did break one major rule: the design is a complete [...]
  Chris Coyier
• New Screencast: How Not To Design a Checkout October 29, 2009
  You’ll have to forgive me here folks, this isn’t a very constructive screencast. I was frustrated at the crappy checkout process for a software product I was trying, so I thought I’d screencast it as a lesson to us all on how not to design a checkout. It was confusing, frustrating, error-prone, and make me [...]
  Chris Coyier
• Images on a Subdomain (?) October 28, 2009
  I can’t remember where, but a while ago I read something about using subdomains to serve up a sites resources as a way to potentially speed up loading. The theory was that the protocol that browsers use to communicate with servers only allows some limited number of things to be download concurrently from a single [...]
  Chris Coyier
• Organic Tabs October 27, 2009
  Have you ever seen a tabbed content area in a sidebar that was a little “jerky”? The jerkiness can be caused by a bunch of things, like the content in the tabbed areas are of different heights, or maybe the way the switch happens the current one is hidden for a brief second before [...]
  Chris Coyier
• Show Off Your Sprites! October 26, 2009
  I just updated my old CSS Sprites article yesterday, and I thought it would be kind of fun to ask everyone to share sprites that they have created themselves. Let’s make a quick giveaway out of it too! I’ve finished my copy of Dan Cederholm’s Handcrafted CSS, which was very good. My copy is now [...]
  Chris Coyier
• CSS Sprites: What They Are, Why They’re Cool, and How To Use Them October 24, 2009
  This post was originally co-authored in late 2007 by me and Volkan Görgülü, I’m updating it now to improve it a bit and make it more current. You’ve heard of them, but… Do you really understand them? The name might be a little misleading, because sprites aren’t little images like you might be picturing, a sprite is [...]
  Chris Coyier