Posted by SimcoMedia Design on Jul 6, 2009 in CSS, Tutorials | 0 comments
While I was snooping around the web the other day looking for some ideas on how to contain a large amount of text into a lightbox effect I decided on using a javascript method of calling the content of a hidden div (display: none). The problem was that the content was opening the lightbox overlay at about 1500 pixels tall which made it very odd to scroll manually and view it. I needed a way to make the contents of the div it was displaying ‘scrollable’.
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Posted by SimcoMedia Design on Jun 1, 2009 in CSS, Tutorials | 0 comments
Here’s a couple of ways to create that cool looking extra large first letter of a paragraph using two different methods but both using CSS. You can do these either in line CSS or external CSS as an attached stylesheet.
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Posted by SimcoMedia Design on May 16, 2009 in CSS | 0 comments
Ever wonder how they do all those cool tricks with the hyperlinks embedded into pages? Are you tired of the typical default color scheme and style of your hyperlinks? Here’s some ideas and CSS tips to add more impact into your design!
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Posted by SimcoMedia Design on Apr 15, 2009 in CSS | 0 comments
This could easily be titled ‘How I Was Afraid Of CSS Layouts But Learned To Love Them’. For years, like most designers, I used tables for creating client websites. The reluctance to embrace CSS tableless layouts was based upon the typical time constraints of having to learn yet another new web coding practice. I have, however, used plenty of CSS for formatting and styling. Just not for the page layouts.
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Posted by SimcoMedia Design on Feb 15, 2009 in CSS | 0 comments
Having learned the hard way, IE doesn’t like the easy way of doing things. Therefore, here’s a quick fix when you want to create a centered design where it will work in both IE and FF as well as other browsers.
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