Category Archives: tutorials

A collection of tutorials explaining some of the more simple things in web design

Replacing text headers with images using CSS

The lack of fonts available to web designers is a constant source of frustration.  Don’t panic though, just over the horizon is CSS font embedding, until then here is a simple solution to help keep your pages looking good while still keeping those search engine’s happy.

CSS layout made easy

 
When creating a html or CSS document it is not only important to make sure the page meets as many of today’s web standards as possible, it is also important as a web page editor to be able to easily find your way around your documents.  Here is a quick guide to help make editing your css [...]

Absolute positioning with CSS

When learning CSS you will no doubt quickly master positioning your divs using floats, margin and padding. There is however another way!

!important compatibility

With the array of web browser brands and versions out there it makes a web designers job difficult in keeping their websites looking the same, there are many different tricks you can learn to help with this head scratching task but I will focus on one that has helped me many a time.