6 Methods For Vertical Centering With CSS Centering elements vertically with css is something that often gives designers trouble. There are however a variety of methods for vertical centering and each is fairly easy to use. Today I want to present 6 of those methods. You can view demos of each of the methods below by clicking here. Let’s start by first talking about something that doesn’t work as many expect. Vertical-Align Horizontal centering with css is rather easy. With text-align: center in mind, most people look first to vertical-align in order to center things vertically. However valign only worked on table cells. The values for vertical-align have meaning with respect to a parent inline element. With a line of text the values are relative to the line-height.With a table cell the values are relative to the table-height-algorithm, which usually means the height of the row. All is not lost though, as we have other methods for centering block level elements and we can still use vertical-align where appropriate. html css Summary
Initializr - HTML5 Boilerplates La boîte à outils ultime pour le responsive design Si vous ne savez pas par où commencer votre webdesign responsive, ni quels outils vont vous faciliter la vie, cette liste d’outils concoctée à l’aide du dernier article de Smashing Hub devrait vous égayer. Faisons un petit tour des outils pratiques ou simplement indispensables… Le responsive design est relativement récent et les choses bougent très vite. Avec sa popularité toujours grandissante, de nombreux outils ont vu le jour pour faciliter le travail des concepteurs et intégrateurs de sites. L’article original recense de nombreux outils gratuits qu’on peut trouver sur le web et vous trouverez ci-dessous ma sélection parmi tous ceux présentés dans celui-ci, plus quelques ajouts. Avant de commencer : N’ouvrez pas dans la hâte Photoshop ou votre éditeur de code favori, prenez le temps de réfléchir au site et à son comportement suivant les résolutions et cas de figure. 1. 2. 3. Gagnez du temps avec une structure souple et responsive 1. 2. 3. 4. Des outils pour des images responsives 1. 2.
Should I Host My Website on WordPress.com? Explore the latest interesting content shared by bloggers on WordPress.com. Posts selected for awesome content and photography Over on the WordPress LinkedIn group, there’s an active discussion about WordPress hosting. The question came up – why not just use WordPress.com? The Short Answer WordPress.com is not a general-purpose WordPress hosting solution. Here’s a technical comparison of WordPress.com vs. self-hosted WordPress (wordpress.org, as some call it). A More Detailed Explanation There are many reasons why you might want to host your blog or simple site on WordPress.com. Here are some of the benefits of WordPress.com: Follow along with your favorite blogs in one place, and look for new things to read that might interest you. If your business site is basically a brochure, contact form, and blog, then wordpress.com can work for you. Lots of people and small organizations will create a website using some other tool, and add a WordPress blog, which you can host on WordPress.com.
29 Free CSS Frameworks and Tools for Web Developers A CSS framework is a pre-prepared library that is meant to allow for easier, more standards-compliant styling of web pages using the Cascading Style Sheets language. Some developers are tired of writing the same CSS code so thinking of this some CSS frameworks are written to get the job done in a short way.Well,some developers always prefer to write the codes as unique but the below CSS frameworks may help you. 1.YAML Yet Another Multicolumn Layout Yet Another Multicolumn Layout” (YAML) is an (X)HTML/CSS framework for creating modern and flexible floated layouts. 2.YUI 2: Grids CSS The foundational YUI Grids CSS offers four preset page widths, six preset templates, and the ability to stack and nest subdivided regions of two, three, or four columns. 3.960 Grid System The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. 4.BlueTrip Css Framework Features Example Sites Using BlueTrip 5.Emastic 6.Elasticss
Less: CSS Pre-Processor Rundown of Handling Flexible Media When you take the responsive web design route, part of the deal is fluid grids. That is, container elements set in percentage widths. Just one example: an <article> that holds a blog post might be 320px wide on a small screen device and 690px wide on some large screen. Text can be resized and will flow nicely to fill a container. That's not too hard. Flexible Images If you're comfortable with IE 7 and up support. If you are caring about IE 7 support (I hope not, but I understand there are scenarios in which you must), use this to make sure the images survive the scale-down: See here for more on that. If you need to care about IE 6 (again...) this Ethan Marcotte article has a JavaScript solution. A shift in thinking There was a time in which resizing images was quite the taboo. However the bandwidth thing is still a (big) issue. Flexible Video Flexible video is a little more complex than images. However, I'm starting to think it's a pretty bad idea to use HTML5 <video> directly.
Somebody told you to use WordPress for your website, but do you know why? | Big Employee You wanted to start a website. You asked your more tech savvy friend for help, or just searched on Google and found some articles that all talk about using WordPress as a starting point for creating your website. But… Do you know why they tell you to use WordPress? Or even if this was your choice and you would like to know if you have made the right choice to build your website on WordPress read on. According to WordPress: The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Well, that’s the plain English translated version of what you should know. So that was the more geeky version of why you should use WordPress. When not to use WordPress? In Software Engineering there is a paradigm called “Buy vs. There are hundreds of other frameworks out there, and each one fulfills a different purpose. Experimenting is still the best way
Stylish Blockquotes And Pull Quotes In Web Design: Tips & Examples There are plenty of examples in web typography where block quotes fit perfectly into your layout. When you need to express dialogue or repeat a quotation from another source this is the perfect HTML style. But strangely there aren’t as many professional examples online where you can look into for inspiration. I want to dedicate today’s post to look at how you can create stylish blockquotes and pull quotes. As a web designer, you have to consider webpage content as a crucial factor in selling your domain. Creating a stylish look to your blog posts and pages will keep readers hooked for longer. It’s not required to understand very much about HTML5 or CSS3, but having some background knowledge in web design will make this process a lot easier. Recommended Reading: Designing Killer Web UI Layouts With Freebies – Ultimate Guide Diving Into Semantics Before we look into CSS styles we should first go over the differences between blockquotes and pull quotes. Blockquotes Pull quotes Inline Quotations
Sass: CSS Pre-Processsor Before you can use Sass, you need to set it up on your project. If you want to just browse here, go ahead, but we recommend you go install Sass first. Go here if you want to learn how to get everything set up. PreprocessingPreprocessing permalink CSS on its own can be fun, but stylesheets are getting larger, more complex, and harder to maintain. Once you start tinkering with Sass, it will take your preprocessed Sass file and save it as a normal CSS file that you can use in your website. The most direct way to make this happen is in your terminal. You can also watch individual files or directories with the --watch flag. sass --watch input.scss output.css You can watch and output to directories by using folder paths as your input and output, and separating them with a colon. sass --watch app/sass:public/stylesheets Sass would watch all files in the app/sass folder for changes, and compile CSS to the public/stylesheets folder. 💡 Fun fact: Sass has two syntaxes! VariablesVariables permalink