10 CSS Rules Every Web Designer Should Know. Through experience as web designers we memorise all kinds of code syntax, hacks and snippets. With CSS in particular there is a number of rules and declarations that can really help transform your website designs and open up new possibilities when compared to older techniques. This post rounds up 10 declarations and tips that every web designer should have available in their CSS arsenal. @media screen and (max-width: 960px) { } The @media rule not only allows you to specify styling for your web page when printed.
These days media queries are more associated with the creation of responsive or adaptive website designs. A cool and extremely useful CSS3 property that has now gained thorough browser support is background-size. One CSS3 property that has really helped transform the web over recent years is @font-face. The clever margin: 0 auto; declaration is one of the first snippets you learn when getting to grips with CSS. Collecting all the cheat sheets. Festisite. CSS Panic Guide. This is not a complete resource, this is a fast resource.
These are the sites that I refer to first, and that I tell people to read. When you want more, just about all of them have their own links to good sites. Basics NYPL Style Guide. Start here to get your head on straight about XHTML and CSS.Better Living Through XHTML. Source Communicate CSS-Discuss. Regular Reads A List Apart. Browsers Our browsers suck.
Layout Boxes This has perhaps the steepest learning curve for people converting to CSS. Mike explains how it should work.Eric, Rob, and I offer methods suited to our lovely browsers. Validate Text Size Setting text size smaller than default can cause nasty things to happen in IE PC's resizing method. Accessibility Access is not about adding wheelchair ramps to existing pages. Why are you just writing for the screen? There seems to be little developer-targeted info on the using the other media types yet. All - Suitable for all devices. 404: Page Not Found. Periodically, pages go missing, assets get misplaced -- you should not be concerned.
This is a startup, this kind of thing happens. At Nosh, we are fortunate to have a relationship with several teams of ex-special forces operatives who help us track down these missing pages. When a page on this website goes rogue -- and a code 404 arises -- we dispatch one of our teams to bring it back. Ideally they are able to salvage the missing page, but sometimes, if the page is truly lost, they have to take it out (resulting in the subsequent code 500 when the page gets taken down). Regarding the page you are currently looking for, one of our teams actually did find it, but it did not want to be found and a firefight ensued.
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