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CSS map in practice
Saturday, September 08, 2007 @ 12:10A few months ago I wrote an article about how to use CSS to create a nice looking map. The process was (I think) well explained in that article, and now I want to show you the real example – or how to use CSS and unordered list to create live, nice looking CSS map (that hopefully rocks :)
I personally love XHTML and CSS combination even when we should achieve the same effect with Flash. This is partly because I never explored Flash so much. The client of ours – Oxy Polyclinic wanted for us to create a map of diving locations for their Ship “Borna”. We could create a map by using Flash, but we used simple XHTML and CSS instead. Why?
Image gallery that doesn’t fall apart
Saturday, March 31, 2007 @ 20:09There are several techniques for laying out the image gallery (using list-items, simple IMG tags or using links when you create a “clickable” gallery). If you use any of available techniques, you should get the same or almost same effects. And everything works nice as long as you stick with the thumbnails of the same size. But from my experience when working with different people with different computer skill, you can expect almost anything. First of all, they won’t upload the photos of the same size, so everything you worked on falls apart – floats, sizes, aligns.
If you use some kind of CMS or your own news script, you can the solution explained in this article. I will show you how to create an image gallery that doesn’t falls apart when different sizes of images are loaded and with no images being distorted.
How to create a nice map using CSS and unordered list
Friday, February 02, 2007 @ 19:34For one of my personal projects, I needed to create a nice-looking map and position the elements in it. In the past, I would use Photoshop, and sketch the elements on layers that I can move, but today I will use (definitely) CSS. We will create an unordered list to achieve that. Nothing complex, just pure simplicity (and it will look nice too :)
There are so many things we can accomplish using CSS positioning. For example, we could provide the background image of a map, and put the elements (in our example – cities) in it. The cities will be absolutely positioned on our map to the places there actually belong. I used a map of my region Istra for this example, and a few cities.
Creating news site heading like in Daylife.com Covers
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 @ 15:48A few days ago I stumbled upon an interesting news site called Daylife. Its front page (Covers) is something like an internet/TV hybrid, with its flash intro page that displays most recent news. To say the least, I am a fan of Flash, as of JavaScript and other technologies, but I think that the same (or almost the same) “vow” effect could be done with XHTML/CSS combination as well.
This front page is loading very slowly, and I think it would be better that they considered some XHTML/CSS/AJAX stuff, that would be faster.
In this article I will show you how to create this kind of front page using only XHTML/CSS. As I am not the JavaScript/AJAX expert (yet:), if anyone else would like to expand this article furthermore (to create that expanding effect), please do so.
Advanced forms
Sunday, December 03, 2006 @ 0:04In you read the article about creating simple contact forms than you know what the most web designers will ever need. For those of you who need some advanced forms, this is the article for you. In this article I will not cover many things, because if you know the basics you could combine the knowledge for creating more powerful forms. When you’re done reading this article you will be able to create advanced forms such as registration form. I wanted to show you how to create nice looking form including text inputs, textarea and checkboxes. I will also show you how to group checkboxes and create description text for the text inputs.
Create your own drop down menu with nested submenus using CSS and a little JavaScript
Wednesday, October 11, 2006 @ 22:57Drop down menus are among the coolest things on the web. Beside that they are also very good for creating navigations that contain many elements. The main problems of creating drop down menus lies in the Internet Explorer’s inappropriate way of displaying :hover pseudo class (not recognized anywhere except in A tag), and the problem in calculating the z-index when an element is positioned absolutely inside a relatively positioned element.
Creating menus: Horizontal navigation > Explained
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 @ 19:17Few days ago I was writing about creating vertical navigation using unordered lists and CSS. Now it is time to show you how to create horizontal navigation with the same things. The beauty of CSS is that we don’t need to change anything in the XHTML code of our previous navigation. Although there are no limitations in creating horizontal navigation, in this article I will show you how to create clean and simple horizontal navigation, but without sub-navigation. I will cover sub-navigation in some other article on this topic.
Creating menus: Vertical Navigation > Explained
Thursday, September 21, 2006 @ 18:04In this article I will explain how to create simple vertical navigation menu with one sub-menu. I suppose there are many explanations of how to create vertical (and horizontal) navigation menus all over the web, but when I was just a beginner I learned to write both XHTML and CSS, but never really understood why I wrote this or that (in CSS file). I will try to help you.
Creating simple contact forms
Monday, September 18, 2006 @ 23:23Tables are designed to show tabular data. But they are also good for building contact forms, because of their easy positioning without having to write much CSS. In this article I will show you how to create simple contact form with less code and less CSS and no tables. Is that possible? You’ll find out.
