Clear Your Floats Even Easier

One of the more popular posts on this site is my explanation of the easyclear method of clearing floats. I had been using it for a while when I wrote the post, and it's a great solution. However, Dave Woods commented on that post with a new method: setting overflow:auto …

Tools That Help Me Work

I have a lot of articles "in the pipes," but I've been finding it hard to get into the rhythm of writing again, so I thought I'd start with an easy post to get the juices flowing. This sort of post is obviously something plenty of people have done before, but I usually …

I'm Back (I Promise)

It's been a very busy summer. Between buying a house, moving into said house, getting married, vacationing, and somehow managing to work, I haven't had any time for the website. But I'm finally caught up with (most) everything, so I thought it was time to get back to …

Naked Is As Naked Does

Today, April 9th, is Naked Day. It's an annual event in which sites remove all of their style information, to reveal the naked page structure underneath. This is my first year participating, but I think it's a great idea.

Naked Day promotes the importance of valid, …

CSS Off Is Back!

I'm very excited to announce that CSS Off is back from a brief hiatus. Clevelander Brad Dielman has come on board to lend his expertise to the project, and Clevelander (and Brad) Brad Colbow is our guest designer. I've seen the comp already, and it's going to be …

Auto-Cropping Rounded Corners

I know, I know. What this world really needs is a new rounded corners solution. With CSS3 support right around the corner (ha, right), why bother, right?

Well, this solution offers something new to the world of rounded corners. What it does is this: it crops the …

Convert Pixels To Ems - A Bookmarklet

Recently, I was writing a Javascript app that involved some animated, expanding boxes. While doing this, I realized I needed a way to dynamically convert pixels to computed ems. The function wasn't too complicated, and so I decided to make a bookmarklet out of it that …

Twitter This

So most everyone I know in the community is a Twitter user, but I've managed to avoid it up to this point. However, seeing as I have absolutely nothing to do today, I joined Twitter. I'm hoping it will give me a chance to say things that are too inconsequential for a …

Clear Your Floats - The Right Way

UPDATE

Read http://dtott.com/thoughts/2009/01/06/clear-your-floats-even-easier/ for an even easier way of dealing with floating elements.

Then come back and read this.

Aside from browser bugs, float clearing can be one of the most frustrating aspects of CSS development. …

Format Your CSS

For years, I've always formatted my CSS in what I like to think of as the "traditional" manner. Each selector on one line, and each property indented one tab underneath:

#content{

	width:49em;

	padding: 0 1.5em;

	margin: 0 auto;

	clear: both;

}

#content …

It's been a while.

Well, well. It looks like someone has been neglecting their blog.

It happens, I guess. The problem I ran in to as time wore on without a post was that the longer I went, the more epic the post had to be that finally got me started again. A lot of things have …

Cleveland Has A New CSS Off Winner!

Congrats to Brad Dielman for pulling in the win in this month's CSS Off. Attention to detail, clean code, and a sly use of hReview helped Brad in the newest victory for Cleveland. Nice work, Brad!

As you may or may not know, I was one of the judges for this month's …

New Section: Linked

You may or may not have noticed, but there is a new section here. It consists of sites that I have saved to my Ma.gnolia account. Every day, I find things on the web that I want to share with people, but I haven't wanted to clutter up my blog to do so. The solution …

CSS Off Judging

So here's some good news. The guys over at CSS Off recruited five judges to help out, including yours truly.

I'm really excited for the chance to help out with this project. We have a good group of people who are all active in CSS Off as well as the blogging …

CSS Tip #1: Use A Reset

So I've been thinking for a while about what I'd like to blog about, now that I'm at least comfortable (if not perfectly happy) with the presentation of dtott.com. What I decided on is starting an ongoing series of in-depth CSS tips. This will (obviously) be the first …

Next CSS Off Is September 15

The CSS Off guys announced today that the next contest will begin on September 15. Wooo!

Google Reader Has Been Fixed

I'm not sure if anyone noticed, but Google Reader now has a search bar. Those of you who use it should be jumping up and down for joy. Those of you who chose another reader because for some unknown reason Google didn't include a search with their RSS aggregator can …

Thinking In Ems

Well, I made it almost a month since the last design change. However, this redesign is a little more extensive.

The Little Stuff

First, I went to an all-Helvetica font scheme. My typography was all over the place on the last view versions, and I feel much more …

Transparent Favicon Update

Turns out that there's an even easier way to create transparent favicons (assuming you have photoshop):

Transparent Favicons

So I discovered the other day that it is possible to make transparent favicons. Favicons are a good idea. Transparent favicons are just awesome.

Here's a screenshot of my site in a Firefox tab with my original favicon:

As you can see, it looks fine in the location …