8 CSS Techniques for Charting Data There are many ways you can present numerical, chartable data by styling elements using CSS. Using CSS to style your data prevents you from relying on static images and increases your content’s accessibility. Below, you’ll read about 8 excellent techniques for styling elements into beautiful, accessible charts and graphs. 1. CSS for Bar Graphs View Demo This tutorial showcases three ways of graphing data. 2. View Demo #1 – View Demo #2 – View Demo #3 Author Wilson Miner discusses the concept of accessible, standards-compliant techniques for data visualization mentioning the benefits, limitations, and alternatives in brief. 3. Eric Meyer shows us another technique for graphing vertical bar graphs using unordered lists similar to the "CSS for Bar Graphs" technique from Apples To Oranges. 4. In this technique, you use pre-made background images to shade in the appropriate data. 5. View Demo This example uses a definition list for mark-up. 6. 7. 8. Related Posts
Mavericks vs Yosemite: Stock App Icons Jun Mavericks vs Yosemite: Stock App Icons 116 Email 116 Email With OS X 10.10 Yosemite, Apple improved upon Mavericks big time. [via] Recent PostsFL Studio Comes To MacDecember 3rd, 2014Watch The MythBusters Explain The Science Behind Gorilla Glass 4November 25th, 2014iPhone 6 Camera vs. © FunkySpaceMonkey.com. 70+ Awesome Fullscreen Wordpress Theme Collection Using a dedicated fullscreen WordPress theme will undoubtedly catch the attention of your visitors in a new, powerful and exciting way! Like WordPress themes for portfolio websites they are great for showcasing your work as a photographer, creative artist, designer or photojournalist. The use of the entire browser area adds a great dimension to your blog drawing all the attention on showcasing your images or videos in an intense and vivid full size manner. Widget, sidebar and banner areas have been minimized or entirely removed making it a very minimal, clean and attractive way of promoting your business and strengthen your online presence. Common to most of these themes is the use of a fullscreen slideshow that showcases either images, videos or both maximizing the user experience. Responsive web design is so hot right now and theme developers can’t ignore the fact that there are more than 1 billion smartphones in use today and this don’t even include the number of tablets in use.
Lessons Learned Concerning the Clearfix CSS Hack I use the CSS clearfix hack on nearly all of my sites. The clearfix hack — also known as the “Easy Clearing Hack” — is used to clear floated divisions (divs) without using structural markup. It is very effective in resolving layout issues and browser inconsistencies without the need to mix structure with presentation. Over the course of the past few years, I have taken note of several useful bits of information regarding the Easy Clear Method. In this article, I summarize these lessons learned and present a (slightly) enhanced version of the clearfix hack.. Use a space instead of a dot to prevent breaking layouts Here is the defacto implementation of the clearfix hack, as presented in one of the original articles covering the method: Notice the line containing the content: " Add a zero font-size property to make it all smooth This may be overkill when using a blank space instead of an actual dot (as described above), but I honestly don’t care. Beware of misinformation regarding this method
Stylie. A graphical CSS animation tool. Stylie is a fun tool for easily creating complex web animations. Quickly design your animation graphically, grab the generated code and go! Watch this screencast for a tutorial. The Stylie Workflow When you open the app, you will see a little ball moving from left to right. Keyframe editing You can add, remove and edit keyframes. "rX," "rY" and "rZ" refer to the three rotation axes, and "s" refers to the scale value. You can tweak individual keyframe properties by pressing the "up" and "down" arrow keys when focusing on a property's text input. Group selection You can select multiple keyframe crosshairs for simultaneous editing by holding the Shift key on your keyboard and clicking the crosshairs. Motion control In addition to the standard easing curves, you can define your own custom curves in the "Motion" tab. Playback control There is a scrubber in the bottom left of the screen. Exporting your animation CSS animations Rekapi animations Saving your animation Keyframe editing with Mantra Author
10 Things You Didn't Know You Agreed to via Terms of Service The terms of service, also known as the document you're supposed to read before signing up for a site or platform, is a treasure trove of legal guidelines, rules and permissions that few people really care about. But there are a few things you're agreeing to, hidden within the jargon, that might change the way you use the web. Some permissions, like keeping personal information, protecting copyrights and preventing impersonation, are well-known and relatively innocuous. That said, there's a chance you're violating a term of service without even realizing it. Here are 10 things you didn't realize you agreed to in the social network terms of service you didn't read, but we did. Facebook 1. Have you ever wanted to see that awesome sunset picture you took or a funny video of your cats in a Facebook ad? You still own all of your content, but Facebook is allowed to use it and give other people the right to use it, too. 2. This one is pretty straightforward. 3. Twitter 4. 5. Instagram 6.
Web Design Trends To Look Out For In 2015 It’s September! Which means fall is here, the pumpkin spice lattes are flowing, and the end of 2014 is in sight. We can now begin to look at the web design trends of 2014 (so far) and make some predictions as to what will have staying power in 2015. At least that’s what I plan to attempt in today’s post. And of course, since Elegant Themes exists at the intersection of web design and WordPress, I’ll be talking throughout about how these trends have and will impact the WordPress Community–from existing WordPress themes and plugins to the new opportunities these trends will provide. Let’s get into it! 1. Ok, so maybe you don’t have to go home. 2. Ghost buttons are a prominent design feature in Divi–the flagship theme here at Elegant Themes–and it’s easy to see why. 3. Traditionally web type-kits that allowed for beautiful fonts and typefaces to be used on websites have been expensive. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Microinteractions are a good trend to talk about after material design. 9. 10. 1. 2. 3.
CSS3 Selectors Test, CSS3 .info Home / About Us After starting the test-suite it will automatically run a large number of small tests which will determine if your browser is compatible with a large number of CSS selectors. If it is not compatible with a particular selector it is marked as such. Because it is technically not possible to simulate certain user interactions the test is limited to CSS selectors that are not dependent on user interactions. Update June 30th, 2010: The tests for the :visited and :link selectors have been removed from the test-suite.
How Did We Get Here? You are here: Home Dive Into HTML5 Diving In Recently, I stumbled across a quote from a Mozilla developer about the tension inherent in creating standards: Implementations and specifications have to do a delicate dance together. Keep this quote in the back of your mind, and let me explain how HTML5 came to be. MIME types This book is about HTML5, not previous versions of HTML, and not any version of XHTML. Every time your web browser requests a page, the web server sends “headers” before it sends the actual page markup. Content-Type: text/html “text/html” is called the “content type” or “MIME type” of the page. Of course, reality is more complicated than that. Tuck that under your hat. A long digression into how standards are made Why do we have an <img> element? One of the great things about standards that are developed “out in the open” is that you can go back in time and answer these kinds of questions. (There are a number of typographical errors in the following quotes. Tony continued:
Databases vs. spreadsheets from the Course Up and Running with MySQL Development When you think of a database, the first thing that may come to your mind is your address book. Perhaps your address book is digital and looks something like this. Storing your address book in a spreadsheet is very convenient, but it is important to know that a database is not a spreadsheet. First, the similarities. Both databases and spreadsheets store data in rows and columns. Both can calculate new data based on existing data. It is a digital worksheet that can easily make nice graphs and charts. You can manipulate the data in a spreadsheet by visually moving or sorting the data. For example, let's say we have our address book stored as a spreadsheet. Because the display information is separate from the data in a database, making a sorting mistake like this, does not actually change the underlying data like it does in a spreadsheet. In a spreadsheet, everything you do results in data. What happens if we make a mistake in one of the cells.
Uninstalling MySQL on Mac OS X from the Course Installing Apache, MySQL, and PHP If you are running MAMP, ZAMP or another one of the simple AMP bundles, it's easy to uninstall my SQL. You just shut down the servers and drag the bundle to the Trash. But if you've installed the individual component from MySQL.com, the steps are a little bit more complex. And I'll click Stop MySQL Server. I haven't set up a password, so I'll leave that out. To remove it, you'll need to use a text editor. That's your user password, not the MySQL password. I'll press the Up Arrow to bring that command back. It has a series of commands that all start with sudo for super user do, then rm for remove, and then the name of a folder, file or set of files. On your system, that file might exist depending on what configurations you've applied to the server. mine, I haven't created it and so I'm told that it wasn't there.