Tag Archive for 'css'

"Padding-" and "Margin-" – What’s the Difference?

Many intermediate and begginer CSS designers get confused when it comes to padding and margin values. What’s the difference? They both just shift stuff, so why the different names? Don’t they do the same thing?

Although the behavior of margin- and padding- is very similary, there is one important difference: margin- is on the outside of [...]

Dynamic (PHP-Driven) CSS Style-Sheets & Web Design

Can you imagine running a website with hundreds of pages off pure, static, html? Without a single bit of server-side code? No PHP, Perl, Ruby, or even SHTML? What about a site with hundreds of thousands of pages? or millions? Of course not. So why do you put up with static CSS files then?!

Not only [...]

CSS & Vista's New Fonts

As we reported and reviewed in our article “A Comprehensive Look at Microsoft’s New Fonts”, Vista has some spectacular new fonts – but we have a few issues with them now that we’ve tried them and implemented them with mixed success here on The NeoSmart Files and on the Forums, and here’s the problem.
They just [...]

JavaScript Alternatives

If you read my article on AJAX & JS yesterday, you know I hate JS with a burning fury. But I am not so crass as to just say “Don’t use JS.” and leave it at that. Believe it or not, there are many enough alternatives to JavaScript; at any rate, there are enough to [...]