Thoughts, rants and commentary from a husband, father of five and professional web geek

Making navigation menus using CSS

Posted on June 25th, 2008 in CSS, Geek Stuff, Mark Up, Web Development | No Comments »

A recent Sitepoint article by Rachel Andrews, Director of edgeofmyseat.com, outlined some pretty Nifty Navigation Tricks Using CSS. Anyone that wants to learn to make some pretty cool tabbed, button or vertical bar navigation lists should give this article a read through. It is a pretty well written article and has a great deal of code that can be easily copied and pasted for your development pleasure.

For four pages it reads very fast. It is easy to follow and the examples are practical. I wish there were some working samples of the code, but still, it is a good teaching tool for those that have yet to dive into CSS based navigation lists (and you should get into it, as CSS is designed for such things).

For those that want a huge assortment of samples, code and really cool lessons, check out Stu Nicholls’ CSS Play. This site is an amazing reference for learning the art of cross-browser compatible CSS. There are menus, layouts and much more available to learn from and even use, in many cases without even a link back to him, though it is always a good idea to give credit where credit is due.

So if you are in need of a little CSS learning fix, hit these references up. You will enjoy them and, in the case of Stu Nicholls, may even make them part of your normal daily web development toolset.

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New blog theme - Dark Sky

Posted on June 16th, 2008 in Geek Stuff, This Blog, Web Development | No Comments »

As much as I loved my Chocolate Ocean theme that I developed a few months ago…

Chocolate Ocean theme by Robert Gonzalez

… I thought it was time for a change. So I changed.

My theme that is.
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