Category Archives: CSS

Book Review: Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design

Some context: People keep asking me what books they should read to learn about web design and everything else under the sun. Therefore I’ve decided I’m going to start reading books about web design and everything else under the sun … Continue reading

By Land, Sea or Air – A travel blog based on the MyKipple project

We’ve been talking about taking a road trip through the USA for a long time, so when my TV job ended in October we decided now was the time. And in true blogger fashion, a road trip required a dedicated … Continue reading

Why a CSS Reset should be at the core of your stylesheet

The CSS Reset is a little known and often overlooked tool in web design that makes cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility a lot easier. It also ensures that you start with a clean sheet when building CSS-based web sites, whether they … Continue reading

Typograph – new WordPress Theme

I’ve closed the comments for this thread to consolidate all comments for the different versions of the Typograph theme in one place. Please leave all your comments at the Typograph page which can be found by clicking here. I’ve been … Continue reading

Pure CSS Drop-Down Menu tutorial – a slight omission

I just got a comment from a reader of my recent Expression Newsletter article The No-Code Way to a Pure CSS Horizontal Drop-Down Menu with Expression Web. He was having trouble getting the grey boxes to “fill out” properly which … Continue reading

Highlight current page in WordPress menus

I have published an updated tutorial on this topic entitled Highlight Current Page or Category in WordPress 3.0 Menus. Click here to read the new article. WordPress has a lot of built in functionality that you can tap for advanced … Continue reading

Read my article in the Microsoft Expression November Newsletter

A month or so ago Microsoft contacted me and asked if I would write an article on Expression Web for their Expression Newsletter. How could I say no to such an opportunity? After some back and forth about the topic … Continue reading

Create a Twitter Box in Your Sidebar – Part II

My Sidebar Twitter box tutorial seems to have struck a chord with WordPress users and it has generated some interesting questions. One of them, from TheNext2ShineBlog posed an interesting problem I decided to look into in more detail: the only … Continue reading

CSS Gallery Features

After three days in it’s new incarnation, Design is Philosophy is being featured in a myriad of CSS and web galleries. this in turn caused an insane spike in readership that makes my stats page look pretty weird. I haven’t … Continue reading

Create a Twitter box in your sidebar

UPDATE July 2011 Twitter has made some changes to their Twitter Badge functionality including removing the auto generated legacy code used in this tutorial. Fortunately they have not deactivated the actual function meaning you can copy the code in the … Continue reading