Posts tagged “css”

• My mobile first ‘framework’

  Posted by Leon on September 5, 2011. 2 comments.

  My mobile first ‘framework’. It’s a bunch of files that might give you a head start in building mobile first documents.

• Why justify?

  Posted by Leon on August 26, 2011. 5 comments.

  Firefox 6 and Safari 5 now hyphenate. In theory this means that you can now justify blocks of text so they’ll look like the neat, square paragraphs in most (all?) printed novels, sans the rivers that text-align: justify normally generates. Leaving aside the fact that justification still doesn’t work that well on the web, I’m scratching [...]

• Adding borders to elements using box-shadow

  Posted by Leon on June 30, 2011. 9 comments.

  Occasionally, you may want to place a border around something without using the border property. Why? Well, if you’re using % to size an element adding a px or em sized border may bork your layout. The box model will simply add the border width to the overall element width and shift other elements accordingly. [...]

• Modifying Scherzo? Use a child theme

  Posted by Leon on February 13, 2011. 7 comments.

  Child themes provide an easy and safe way to modify existing WordPress themes. In this post I’ll show you how to create your own child theme so you can safely change things such as your blog’s font face. It’ll take no more than three minutes.

• Why it’s still worth using ems instead of pixels

  Posted by Leon on December 27, 2010. 3 comments.

  Using absolute units saves a lot of time and mind–bending maths when we first write our stylesheets, but relative units make future changes and maintenance less of a headache.