CSS Blueprint Framework

A big THANKS to Donnie for providing the following information: [Blueprint CSS] Blueprint is a CSS framework designed to cut down development time and ensure cross-browser compatibility when working with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). It also serves as a foundation for many tools designed to make CSS development easier and more accessible to beginners. Blueprint is released under a modified version of the MIT License, making it free...

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CSS

CSS is FABULOUS! It’s a quick and easy way to make your pages look cool and consistent. I STRONGLY recommend that before you start working on your webpage, go to [Free CSS Templates] and download a template that you like. Make a copy of the index.html original so you can reference it later if necessary. Then start messing with the HTML and CSS. You can view these simple pages in a browser without ever having to put them up on...

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Search Bar Tutorial

Scott has had some trouble with a search bar in his dad’s website, but Brant says that Google has a great one that works very well. You can check it out at [Pit Row Sports]. It looks great and plays well with his CSS. I got it working on my HTML site, but it doesn’t work on my PHP page. Tutorial Go to the the Google [Google Custom Search] page. Make sure you choose the FREE standard edition. This one will have ads. (See...

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CSS3

It seems that CSS3 is all the rage and you can do some cool stuff like rounded corners. Some examples: Good example on doing a drop-down menu with rounded corners Here’s a Rolling Coke Can done completely in CSS Here’s an interesting Polaroid Gallery done using CSS A Mac OS X – type dock can be made using CSS. See it Here. This is a really cool Lightbox Gallery Here’s an Elastic Thumbnail Gallery Here’s...

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Search Bars

Scott has had some trouble with a search bar in his dad’s website, but Brant says that Google has a great one that works very well. You can check it out at [Pit Row Sports]. It looks great and plays well with his CSS. I got it working on my HTML site, but it doesn’t work on my PHP page. See the [cref search-bar-tutorial] page for instructions for implementing this.

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Blogging

We briefly discussed blogging softwares. I and a few others use [Wordpress] – an open-source Blogging software. WordPress also has CSS support. This is also implemented through Godaddy and has a great admin UI. You can see it in action on [My Author Site]. This Blogging Page What I had: As I have been doing more and more research and developing my skills, there has been a need to record the things I’ve learned and be able...

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