Microsoft’s Networked Approach To Accelerating Social Change Through Technology at Beth’s Blog. Beth talked about a conference which revealed a side of Microsoft I’ve never heard about before. I had an opportunity to attend Microsoft’s “Accelerator Summit,” a day of conversation with Microsoft employees, partners, academics, journalists, and bloggers about their corporate citizenship program. Their [...]
product A review by Web Teacher of The CSS Detective Guide: Tricks for solving tough CSS mysteries (rating: 4 stars) CSS Detective Guide by Denise R. Jacobs is from New Riders (2010). This book would be most helpful for beginners. The cover lists the level as beginning/intermediate, which makes sense, but I think beginners will [...]
The Stylemaster folks at WestCiv have some online CSS tools that are useful. Make gradients, transforms, shadows and stroke text with these tools. Small icons on each tool show you which browsers currently support these CSS3 techniques. The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing for 2010 is themed “Collaborating Across Boundaries.” It’s set in [...]
product A review by Web Teacher of Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook, Special Edition (rating: 5 stars) Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook, Special Edition by Dan Cedarholm is from Friends of ED (2009). This is an updated edition of Cedarholm’s 2004 book by the same name. When I reviewed [...]
The RGBa color specification in CSS3 is almost ready for prime time. Most browsers (except IE) support the spec. Show your wizard skills by learning to use it. I’ll show you how to create a partially transparent background behind a paragraph using RGBa. The result will look like this: You get control over the alpha [...]
InterACT with Web Standards: a Holistic Approach to Web Design is available today. This announcement is a BIG DEAL. This book puts everything you need to teach a class in web design or development with web standards into your hands. The book is easy to use in connection with InterACT’s 17 courses in 6 learning [...]
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The current CSS3 Transitions module says, “CSS Transitions allows property changes in CSS values to occur smoothly over a specified duration.” The following properties are used to create rules for transitions: transition-property—the CSS property to which the transition will apply transition-duration—the length of time the transition will take, given in seconds transition-timing-function—allows transitions to “ease-in” [...]
The first-letter and first-line CSS selectors are among the pseudo-selectors. Pseudo-selectors exist not as discrete elements, but as variable elements that exist only as a factor of context or browser state. First-letter is used to select only the first letter of an element. The syntax is: p:first-letter {font-size: 1.8em;} The CSS properties that can be [...]
A couple of preview-type articles on what we can expect to see happening with CSS 3 are fascinating, even if not practical for immediate use. CSS Template Layout Module and The CSS 3 Flexible Box Model. Introducing Dreamweaver CS 5 at the Adobe site gives you some highlights of the new Dreamweaver features in Creative [...]
Posts on styling fieldsets with CSS continue to be popular here on Web Teacher. There have been several. A list is in order. Learn more about fieldset CSS in these posts: Style a fieldset with rounded corners using CSS Styling a fieldset with CSS Three examples of fieldsets styled with CSS Style fieldsets like a [...]
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