Dave, Jonathan Longnecker, Nate Croft and I talk shop. Topics include website building apps, where to start designing, when not to design for modern browsers, and more...

Author: Kubrick

Category: CSS

Tags: article, CSS, Design, direct-link

What do you think folks? Is a new language going to come along in the next ten years that deals with layout / style / design and unseat CSS...

Author: Kubrick

Category: CSS

Tags: article, CSS, css tricks, Design, poll

Star ratings are one of those classic UX patterns that everyone has tinkered with at one time or another. I had an idea get the UX part of it done with very little code and no JavaScript...

Author: Kubrick

Category: CSS

Tags: actual-usage, calculator, CSS, ratings

Paul Irish suggests the universal selector (*) to apply border-box box-sizing to every element. I've been wanting to try this forever because this box model is, in my opinion, just better. ...

Author: Kubrick

Category: CSS

Tags: CSS, paul-irish

...is now a stable release. It's notable because it's the first release with it's own built in developer tools ( video overview ). ...

Author: Kubrick

Category: CSS

Tags: CSS, desktop, download, islands, mozilla-firefox

In this latest poll , I asked people to test their own internet connection speed then vote in the poll based on their result. The speed choices ranged from (what I would consider) blazingly fast, to mediocre, to nearly...

Author: Kubrick

Category: CSS

Tags: CSS, nearly-unusably

I've long been convinced icon fonts are awesome , but Drew Wilson's new service (and article I'm linking to). Think they use unsemnatic markup? ...

Author: Kubrick

Category: CSS

Tags: article, CSS, css tricks, pictos-server

Bookmarklet by Benjamin Keen which automates an idea by Lennart Schoors where the current page is loaded into a bunch of differently sized iframes, so when working on a large monitor, you can see what a design looks like...

Author: Kubrick

Category: CSS

Tags: ben-keen, CSS, free-scripts

You already know that inline styles are "bad practice." Inline styles aren't reusable like CSS in separate files is, and thus, inefficient bloat. Unless of course, when it isn't...

Author: Kubrick

Category: CSS

Tags: article, CSS, heres-a-dabblet, progress

A reader writes in: Would it be possible to draw an entire typeface in CSS to be sent in emails? Our company needs to send out emails to about 20k people to introduce a new brand that we are...

Author: Kubrick

Category: CSS

Tags: article, CSS, time