If you ever designed and sliced a website mockup in Photoshop running on Mac OS X then you probably faced this: you have prepared the slices and you have exported them but the result looks a bit washed out, especially on Windows. This is not a misfuction or a bug as many tend to believe; this is how things are supposed to work.

If you google it, you will come across […]

Strange and weird, but true! I was totally surprised yesterday to read that the upcoming version of Internet Explorer has successfully passed the Acid2 Face test. As you understand, these good news allow web developers to reasonably hope that IE will soon become (hopefully, in a few months) a standards-compliant browser.

Don’t get me wrong, but it sounds like a good joke to me; Internet Explorer becomes a standards compliant […]

I am sure that I am not the only one, but I find the London 2012 logos very plain and poorly designed. It seems like the London 2012 Olympic Committee assigned the design of these logos to the very first person who asked for it… don’t get me wrong but I can not see any creativity or innovation in these logos. When taking into […]

I am back with another post in the styling with CSS series. Have you ever tried to style the number of an ordered list? While the replacement of the default bullets is too obvious (list-style-image does the trick), the method of styling list numbers is not. What follows is a demonstration of how this can be achieved by two methods: a) the quick-and-dirty and b) the modern way.

Let’s start with […]

I got too busy this week so I went ahead and gave my self a break, at least for tonight. I was searching for css galleries when I came across the following one: Microsoft CSS Gallery. Initially, I was under the impression that it was related to the infamous IE7 CSS Zen Garden but no … it […]

Styling a horizontal rule with CSS is a true nightmare, due to the behavioural issues among the available browsers. This is the main reason why the hr tag is marginalised. When was the last time you saw a hr in a website source code? Can you remember? The hr tag is informally deprecated, since web designers tend to use the div tag instead. Some common usages are <div class=”separator”> and […]