A nice way to implement you navigation is to organize it into tabs. Way back when, before I started using CSS, I used to make tabs the hard way…image by image. If you still do this now, then I’ll show you how CSS can save you a lot of time and effort.
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There sometimes comes a time when we realize that a plain color background just isn’t enough. Then we find or make this insane looking background that we just have to put on our page. Problem is, it doesn’t tile, repeat, well throughout the page. So to fix this, we need to use another background image that does look good when it is tiled.
I’ll show you a quick and easy, maybe too easy, way to creating this effect.
Today I’ll show you how to stylize those blockquotes that are sometimes necessary in web sites.
Using the quotes that are part of the standard fonts can be boring. The way I’ll teach you uses images of any font’s quotation marks.
I’ll be using these two quotation images:
It’s nothing really difficult, but there’s a little problem with IE if you want to do this a certain way.
Like I mentioned in another post, having a div with a position:fixed doesn’t work in lower versions of IE; but IE7 beta 2 apparently works, but you have to declare the document as strict:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”>
In this tutorial, I’ll show you a way to get around this and implement a fake “position:fixed.”
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