Category Archives: CSS

Introducing Design is Philosophy

After finishing a series of projects long overdue I finally had a couple of days to sit down and redesign my much neglected blog. Over the summer I’ve jotted down ideas and sketches for this blog but I’ve never really … Continue reading

Fancy Interactive Pure CSS List Boxes with Hover Effect

There was an urgent need to expand the product gallery for the Nature’s Carpet website I built last fall. More specifically they were asking for the ability to easily update and ad new carpets with info and pictures. The info … Continue reading

Center a Page Horizontally Using CSS – An Expansion

This is an expansion to Anna Ullrich’s tutorial Center a page (horizontally) by using CSS which can be found on her blog. I’m picking up where she left off, so if you are confused about where we are when we … Continue reading

Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor for Expression Web – Start things right

I always say that unless you start things right, you’re going to run into problems somewhere down the line. Nowhere is that more true than in building websites, especially if you venture into the realm of standards based scripting. Fortunately … Continue reading

WordPress as CMS – The Project

I’ve been talking about this for a while now and it’s time I got a little more specific. It is my contention that with some small tweaks, WordPress can be used as an excellent Content Management System (CMS) and used … Continue reading

Designing a WordPress Blog Theme Using Expression Web

I’ve been working with Expression Web for about 6 months now and I’ve found that above all other things, what sets this program apart from the competition is it’s handling of CSS. More specifically how easy it is to not … Continue reading

Selected Pages – an answer for Beal

In December Beal asked a question in response to my piece on the Natures Carpet site: How did you make the current page appear selected? I used the include function (leftover from Frontpage) because I didn’t want to make a … Continue reading