Last year Chris Coyier posted an article titled “May is Maintenance Month“. Chris’ idea was to rewrite older articles to keep the resource (his website) up to date. I didn’t join him in doing so last year — mostly because css-plus was still very new at that point. This year, however, I am supporting the fight against old/outdated articles. I’ll mention that the article was rewritten and also refer to the original date.
:first-child is a CSS selector that has been around since the CSS 2.1 spec. It is extremely useful and can be used effectively in various ways.
:last-child has finally made an appearance in CSS 3. One would think that selectors such as first and last child are pretty much the same and would be implemented at the same time. This is not the case and they have pretty big performance differences.
PlusAnchor is a jQuery plugin I’ve just created. At the moment it solves a simple and specific problem: Anchor links cause the browser scroll to the destination instead of merely jumping there.
The days of using javascript lightboxes are over!
Just kidding, javascript lightboxes remain a much more efficient and cross-browser friendly way of doing achieving the lightbox effect. This CSS3 lightbox tutorial is for demonstration purposes only. I’m doing this because it’s interesting to see how far you can push CSS and you end up learning quite a lot. I do at least.
Grids are very popular among web designers. While working on my current project I decided to use a grid for the background. Normal grids didn’t give my design the edge I was looking for. I wanted to add a diagonal grid. Normal grids usually get associated with technical, futuristic design, where as diagonal grids give a more funky, modern feel to a design.