Dustin Diaz is getting naked again! Well at least his blog is. CSS Naked Day is back for a third year. Head on over and sign up then strip away your CSS on April 9th.
Hey Dustin - any chance we’ll see GMail going naked this year?
A (sort of) Quick Introduction to making your own Adium Message Style is a tutorial I am going to put on my todo list! Adium is my favorite IM client for OSX and I just found out that you can customize and create your own themes using nothing but HTML and CSS (and a sprinkle of XML). Pretty cleaver of the smart people at Adium to embrace web standards and use them as a tool for extending their platform!
Kevin Hale from Particletree reminds us about Rediscovering the Button Element. I have to admit that I rarely use the button element, but after reading his article I think I’ll start to use it more. One perceived advantage is that it allows you to create buttons that render exactly the same across all platforms.
Rogie King show us his CSS skills with his awesome CSS Star Rating System. The implementation is extremely simple and uses nothing but a couple of images and some CSS selectors!
Joe Hewitt has just released a Public Beta of Firebug 1.0. Firebug is a kick-ass tool that every web developer/designer must have in his or her toolbox. If you have used Firebug in the past you will absolutely love some of the new features like JavaScript profiling, live HTML and CSS editing, and CSS metrics visualiztion. My favorite new feature is the one that lets you open Firebug in a separate window (perfect for those of us with more than one monitor).
Mike Arace shows us how to create a CSS Crossfader Demo using CSS, the Scriptaculous JavaScript effects library and a bit of semantic markup!
Nathan Smith has a solution for a Firefox quirk that displays dotted lines around links. In Removing Dotted Links he shows us how to apply some simple CSS to remove this behaviour while at the same time retaining the accessibility feature of the dotted outlines when appropriate.
Mike from FiftyFourEleven offers a nice tip on how to effectively use the CSS :hover pseudo class and points to the techique being used in the wild by Ping-o-matic.
There is a nice tutorial at the Erratic Wisdom blog that will show you how to take your PSD website mockup and coding it into a standards based layout.
Garrett Dimon has authored a great article for Digital Web Magazine regarding issues and techniques for Architecting CSS. Some topics covered include:
