By Divya Manian | December 15th, 2011 | smashingmagazine.com :: A few concerns keep bobbing up now and then for Web developers, one of which relates to how to lay out a given design. Developers have made numerous attempts to do so with existing solutions. Several articles have been written on finding the holy grail of CSS layouts, but to date, not a single solution works without major caveats. At the W3Conf, I gave a talk on how the CSS Working Group is attempting to [read more]
| By: James Appleyard | Posted: December 26, 2011 | PHP Tutorials phpmaster.com :: PHP has a vast selection of built-in string handling functions that allow you to easily manipulate strings in almost any possible way. However, learning all these functions, remembering what they do, and when they might come in handy can be a bit daunting, especially for new developers. There is no way I can cover every string function in one article, and besides, that is what the PHP manual is for! But [read more]
Posted by Maggie on 12/29/2011 filamentgroup.com :: In responsive web design, one of the toughest design problems to solve is how format complex tabular data for display on smaller screens. In this post, we’ll explore an experimental approach to rendering a complex table, using progressive enhancement and responsive design methods, that displays comfortably at a wide range of screen sizes, provides quick access to the data, and preserves the table structure so that data can still be compared across columns. We’ve been batting around the [read more]
By Craig Buckler | October 27, 2011 | sitepoint.com :: Scaling, skewing and rotating any element is possible with the CSS3 transform property. It’s supported in all modern browsers (with vendor prefixes) and degrades gracefully, e.g. #myelement { -webkit-transform: rotate(30deg); -moz-transform: rotate(30deg); -ms-transform: rotate(30deg); -o-transform: rotate(30deg); transform: rotate(30deg); } Great stuff. However, this rotates the whole element — it’s content, border and background image. What if you only want to rotate the background image? Or what if you want the background to remain fixed while [read more]
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