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Be Careful Editing Your Blogs CSS
CSS Most blogs use a single stylesheet to control the design of their entire site. That is where all the magic happens. If you have ever gotten adventurous and wanted to modify your theme, you have no doubt poked around in your blogs stylesheet. Obviously, this is a very important file, so you should be careful with your editing. Make a backup first Even if you really know what you are doing, it’s always a good plan to have a backup copy of a ...
Continue readingSpacing Out Blocks of Text in WordPress
CSS The WordPress Text Editor: TinyMCE In the administration area of WordPress, the text editor that you actually type into when writing posts is actually a javascript platform called TinyMCE. By most accounts it’s a pretty nice WYSIWYG editor that really gets the job done, but it’s not without some complaints. A common complaint amongst WordPress bloggers is the inability to space out blocks of text. You can put as many returns between ...
Continue readingLearning CSS
CSS I was over at a friends place the other day helping her with some web work and I wasn’t at all surprised to find out that they don’t teach designers how to code html or CSS in schools. So I put together some info for her to go over to get some basics on CSS that I’m going to share with you. As you may or may not know CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets and is a language that describes the presentation elements of a ...
Continue readingStop with the Tables.
CSS I’ve been working on a project for a jeweller, bringing their online catalog into the 21st century with some help from oscommerance, unfortunately the application still suffers from a 20th century relic. Tables. Tables are for data, not layouts, it should be as simple as that. But I still come across far to many site put together with tables, and not just sites from 5 years ago but sites being constructed today using tables for layout and ...
Continue reading5 Essential CSS Tools for Bloggers
CSS The rise of personal publishing (a.k.a. blogging) in recent years is due, in large part to popular platforms like MovableType (my first love), WordPress, ExpressionEngine, Drupal, etc. and their elimination of the need for a web publisher to have any technical skills. All that is required to start a blog is an account at a hosted service like WordPress.com or TypePad.com. In fact, these are wonderful ways to enter the blogging fray. But Blogging ...
Continue readingHow to use Margins to get the shape of your blog theme
CSS I posted an explanation of how Margins and Padding works in CSS earlier tonight. I thought it would be good to expand on Margins to show how they can shape your blog theme. What better example than the Funky Red theme i designed for Blogging Tips to show you how margins can work. Blogging Tips Funky Red Margins I set the main frame at a size of 1000 pixels. I use to always set my websites at a size of 770 pixels to accomodate 800×600 ...
Continue readingMargins & Padding
CSS If your coming form an HTML background you’ll have an idea of how margins and padding work in CSS. Margins define the distance between a property and everything around it. Padding defines the distance between a property and the content within it. Margins You can define margins by pixel length or percentage. You have the option to define all margins as the same length, the oppposing margins as the same length or individually define top, ...
Continue readingThe difference between an id and a class in CSS
CSS Newbies to CSS might be a little confused as to the differences between classes and ids. I thought it would be good to write a post about this and help clarify these differences. Both ids and classes allow you to structure and display your site and information the way you want. However there are two very small differences between classes and ids. An id identifier can only be used once in a page/document whereas a class can be used as many times ...
Continue readingInternal or External Stylesheets
CSS Cascading style sheets can be used internally or externally – ie. you can can add your style code to your page directly or place it in a seperate style code and link to it. Its a very basic concept but since not everyone is familiar with CSS and since nearly all blogs use it, i thought it would be worthwhile posting about it. Internal Stylesheet Here is the basic code for an HTML page. <html> <head> ...
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