Lost a day
This morning I upgraded MySQL on the server, unfortunately during the process some tables belonging to this site and a couple of others on the server became corrupt. After many attempts to repair the...
View ArticleWelcome to CSS Creator.
If your new to CSS We hope you find the community helpful. You can start by registering an account. Feel free to browse around, or use the search field to find what you are after. How best to ask for...
View ArticleHappy Birthday to us
I can't believe the forum is now 9 years old. That must be like 100 in web years. The site is actually a few months older then the forum and started as way to display a tool I called the CSS Creator...
View ArticleDebugging CSS problems
Validate Use a valid doctype and validate your markup and styles. This will help you find out if something as simple as a typo or an unclosed element is causing the problem. Test in other browsers...
View ArticleClearfix and Browser support
When I first wrote about what's known as the Clearfix technique in 2004, I knew it was going to be useful. It was to solve a problem that previously required us to add extra markup to the page. I had...
View ArticleHTML5 anchor name & target
An named anchor, so you could target section of the page, like jump to content, used to be <a name="content"></a> notice no href. You could access it in a link prefixing the name with a '#'...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Spammers
Hi there, Before you post please consider something. We, that is the people that make tech forums like this one viable and useful for the community, keep them alive and provide a little of our...
View ArticleAmazing milestone for a website
We have reached 10 years old, a fair age for any website. Actually the domain was registered in October 2002, the site started with the CSS Generator and I added the forum in March 2003. So we are...
View ArticleAn update on the CSS3 WD --- The display module
I imagine most of the web dev world hadn't realized that the display module of CSS3 was only in working draft status. There are some serious improvements and equally serious issues involved with this...
View ArticleMultiple scalable background images
Recently I had a design provided that required a scalable image either side of the content area when the screen was wider then a specif point. Since it has been a long time since my last blog post, I...
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