5 Great CSS Techniques To Improve Your Website

Post pobrano z: 5 Great CSS Techniques To Improve Your Website

CSS or Cascading Style Sheets is normally used to separate the style and layout of your HTML files from the actual content. However, few are aware of the added value that CSS can give to your website. Aside from the obvious ones like style standardization, CSS can be utilized to provide other useful stuff not possible with table-based layouts.

Among these benefits are things like:

Much information about these techniques can be found on the web. Below are some example implementations.

Server bandwidth reduction

CSS Optimization can translate to huge savings in server bandwidth, resulting in lower operational costs.

This article compares some of the best CSS optimizers available on the web by using heavy traffic websites like Digg and Slashdot as an example.

Media type formatting

By utilizing the CSS media attribute, you can easily control display for different media types. This is best used when formatting websites for mobile display and creating printer-friendly pages.

Here is a good tutorial that covers CSS development for mobile browsers. For techniques related to print styling, refer to this tutorial, another tutorial, and this article by Eric Meyer.

Menu overlapping

The CSS z-index property specifies the order an element is stacked, similar to how layers are arranged in Adobe Photoshop. It is also relatively easy to understand, and can be quite powerful when used correctly. It can also come in handy when creating overlapping menus. Here is a very good tutorial on how this can be done.

Styling of form elements

In a previous article we linked to Jeff Howden’s CSS-Only, tableless forms article which gives an example of what can be accomplished with CSS form styling.

Then, there’s also The Form Assembly, a CSS Zen Garden clone for showcasing form designs.

E-mail address obfuscation

When displaying an e-mail address on a website you obviously want to obfuscate it to avoid it getting harvested by spammers. There are many ways to accomplish this, and one such method can easily be implemented in CSS. Silvan Mühlemann tested nine methods and published a test page for spambots to harvest. 1.5 years later the results are out and surprisingly, only the CSS methods resulted in absolutely zero spam.

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1000th Post Giveaway – Winners Announced

Post pobrano z: 1000th Post Giveaway – Winners Announced

Last week, the 1000th post of WRD was announcing a huge giveaway of products/services that web designers & developers would love.

One week later, today, the winners are selected and they are announced at the bottom of the post.

1000th Post Giveaway Winners

But before that, lets remember the products/services which made this huge giveaway (32 products) possible (listed alphabetically):

activeCollab LogoactiveCollab is an amazing project management & collaboration tool that you can set up on your own server or local network.

Work with your team, clients and contractors in an easy to use environment, while keeping full control over your data.

Giving Away: 1 Small Biz ($249) & 1 Corporate ($449) license.

 

CAZE Logo

CAZE is a provider of high quality & creative iPhone CAZEs which has a beautiful collection from leather to metalic ones.

Considering there are lot of iPhone users between WRD readers, these CAZEs are the right stuff to add a twist to your mobile phones.

Giving Away: 4 CAZES – (1 De Luxe/Metallic, 1 Love Pair/Metallic – $24.90 , 1 D Stripe/Leather – $29.90, 1 Silver Tone/Metallic – $29.90)

 

CometChat LogoCometChat is a Facebook-like chat script which allows your users to chat with their friends/online users and in-exchange keep them on your site.

It is built with PHP/MySQL & besides the standalone one, it has vBulletin & JomSocial versions.

Giving Away: 1 license ($49 – the winner can choose any edition).

 

Flowplayer Logo

Flowplayer is the ultimate video player for websites which can be highly customized to fit any need.

It can stream video from different sources & using the JavaScript API, all aspects of it can be controlled.

Giving Away: 1 commercial license ($95).

 

MachForm Logo

MachForm is an impressive application for creating beautiful forms & collecting the results.

It comes with all the PHP source code, has spam protection & an easy-to-use administrator interface where everything is handled via Ajax + drag’n drops.

Giving Away: 3 single site licenses ($39/each).

 

MailChimp Logo

MailChimp is a great service for designing/sending email newsletters to your customers, managing your subscriber lists, and tracking campaign performance.

The service is integrated with most of the popular softwares/services and makes it possible to integrate your own with its API.

Giving Away: $500 of e-mail credits.

 

Monoslideshow Logo

Monoslideshow is a Flash® slideshow to view your images and videos in a web page. It can be placed on every website, in whatever size you want and filled with whatever content you like.

It’s designed for maximum flexibility, whether you want to have a professional looking portfolio, or a simple image rotator on your website. 

Giving Away: 3 licenses €25/each.

 

Navicat For MySQL Logo

Navicat offers feature-rich & user-friendly database administration tools for MySQL, PostgreSQL & Oracle.

It can connect to databases even if they are "local only" by HTTP tunneling, enables scheduling of db related tasks & offers a powerful import/export feature. The tool runs on Windows, Linux & Mac.

Giving Away: 3 Standard licenses $129/each (winner can choose from any of the Windows, Linux & Mac versions).

 

Pingdom Logo

Pingdom is a very functional web-based service that tracks your website’s uptime and performance.

It has multiple check types like HTTP(S), TCP port, Ping, DNS, UDP, SMTP, POP3 & IMAP. Also, different intervals can be selected & alerts can be received via e-mail or SMS.

Giving Away: 5 yearly Basic accounts ($119.4/each) & 1 yearly Business account ($479.4/year).

 

PointBanner Logo

PointBanner is a banner design service that creates the chic banners you need for your brands & products.

Besides every standard banner size, they support custom sizes too and offer various packages for making you ready to a campaign.

Giving Away: Five $25 coupons.

 

SSLmatic Logo

SSLmatic offers the certificates of the most popular SSL brands for much cheaper prices with a non-complicated process.

They provide the SSL certificates of RapidSSL, Geotrust, Verisign & besides the standard ones wildcard certificates can be purchased too.

Giving Away: 3 RapidSSL certificates ($19.99/each – original price: $79/each).

 

And, The Winners:

  • Sech D (comment #73328) – activeCollab Small Biz
  • JP Bourbon (comment #74261) – activeCollab Corporate
  • mondo (comment #73030) – CAZE De Luxe/Metallic
  • Pritish Nandi (comment #73743) – CAZE Love Pair/Metalli
  • Ahmad Alfy (comment #72729) – CAZE D Stripe/Leather
  • Matt (comment #72664) – CAZE Silver Tone/Metallic
  • magesh (comment #74248) – CometChat
  • joerg (comment #72854) – Flowplayer Commercial License
  • Tuan (comment #73151) – MachForm Single Site License
  • Ivan (comment #73401) – MachForm Single Site License
  • Federica Colas (comment #73154) – MachForm Single Site License
  • Simon (comment #73223) -MailChimp $500 of e-mail credits.
  • Yoosuf (comment #73077) – Monoslideshow
  • ZSK (comment #74092) – Monoslideshow
  • TaTaC (comment #73209) – Monoslideshow
  • AJ Sedlak (comment #72752) – Navicat Standard License
  • Ted Carew (comment #74309) – Navicat Standard License
  • Issam (comment #72974) – Navicat Standard License
  • Richard S (comment #72743) – Pingdom Yearly Basic Account
  • Mircea Gindulescu (comment #72624) – Pingdom Yearly Basic Account
  • Danie (comment #72835) – Pingdom Yearly Basic Account
  • Hani AbuGhazaleh (comment #72912) – Pingdom Yearly Basic Account
  • Dave Marks (comment #72682) – Pingdom Yearly Basic Account
  • Getox (comment #73540) – Pingdom Yearly Business Account
  • JC (comment #72818) – PointBanner $25 Coupon
  • Joseph Levin (comment #72846) – PointBanner $25 Coupon
  • sauzer (comment #72868) – PointBanner $25 Coupon
  • Hassan (comment #72795) – PointBanner $25 Coupon
  • Endijs Lisovskis (comment #72654) – PointBanner $25 Coupon
  • Steve Hansen (comment #73032) – SSLmatic RapidSSL SSL Certificate
  • Iniwoo (comment #74269) – SSLmatic RapidSSL SSL Certificate
  • James Ison-Stierer (comment #72633) – SSLmatic RapidSSL SSL Certificate

Congratulations to all the winners & thanks very much to everyone for joining the giveaway.

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FIAT: Palindromes

Post pobrano z: FIAT: Palindromes

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“Going forward or backward, it’s all the same. Fiat Linea with parking sensor.”

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil
Creative Director: Ruy Lindenberg
Art Director: Luiz Ramon
Copywriters: Alexandre Scaff, Michel Zveibil
Published: March 2009

Attractive Multiple Select Inputs With jQuery UI

Post pobrano z: Attractive Multiple Select Inputs With jQuery UI

jQuery UI Multiselect is a widget that converts html multiple select inputs into slicker interfaces.

It makes searching within the options possible which is very functional for large lists & selected items can be re-ordered by drag’n drops.

jQuery UI Multi Select

It can display the number of selected items & for an easier selection, there are select all/deselect all links provided.

The widget is unobtrusive & and be styled with ThemeRoller.

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