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Online CSS Layouts designer

I'm always on the lookout for great tools that aid in the design of my page layouts. Today I came across a site that lets you design your layout online! Its called YAML (Yet Another Multicolumn Layout).

The site describes it as: YAML is an (X)HTML/CSS framework for creating modern and flexible floated layouts. The structure is extremely versatile in its programming and absolutely accessible for end users.

  • Based on web standards
  • Accessible
  • Flexible
  • Easy to use
  • Fully documented

YAML

This system allows for the rapid development of designs with one to three columns, with fixed or variable widths. With subtemplates (flexible grids), the column system can be endlessly nested and expanded. The YAML basis layout can be extended with special containers which help set the layout width or can create a border around the layout. YAML is more than just a simple multicolumn layout. It is an entire layout framework, highly flexible, and tested under real-world conditions with Cross-Browsers Compatibility.

The YAML Builder comes as a beta version v1.0 is now available that allows the visual development of YAML based CSS layouts directly within your web browser.



Jan 08
22

Finally! A New Design for cfblog

Out with the old and in with the new. I finally decided to update my blogs look and feel. So jumping on the band wagon of web 2.0 icons, I started to re-design the site.

And here it is! It's taken me about 30 hours of work and lots of late nights, but I'm quite happy with it. The hardest thing I find when designing is coming up with an idea. So I spent quite awhile browsing sites to get some inspiration.

I use BlogCFC by Ray Camden (can't wait for version 6 ray), and needed to modify a few bits of code so that the design worked. I also tweaked various files sp that the site now passes the W3C validator for xhtml 1.0 strict.

Within the next few days I'll post a tutorial on how I created some of the graphics and also provide the .psd (photoshop files) for them.

I've still got a little bit of work to do on this and that, but the main bulk has been achieved.

Let me know what you think.

 
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Jan 07
25

Adding a Tick using CSS

Instead of using a graphic image (jpg or gif) it is possible to display a nice tick.

Use the following CSS and special character code:

The Css
<style>
.tick {font-family: Code2000, TITUS Cyberbit Basic, Doulos SIL, Chrysanthi Unicode, Bitstream Cyberbit, Bitstream CyberBase, Thryomanes, Gentium, GentiumAlt, Visual Geez Unicode, Lucida Grande, Arial Unicode MS, Microsoft Sans Serif, Lucida Sans Unicode;}
</style>
The html
<div class='tick'>&amp;#10004;</div>
 
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Jan 07
15

IE7 css hack

We had all hoped the the new version of Internet Explorer would end all our css woes and to a large extent it has.

Unfortunately, the (* html) known as the star hack that was necessary for earlier versions of Internet Explorer is now ignored by IE7.

This caused a few minor problems on my business site and so off I went and googled a fix for the problem. Easier said than done... all I wanted was something similar to the star hack since my site doesn't use too much css.

Well I found one and here it is

*:first-child+html {}

Yep, its that weird - you type it in exactly as it is above.

 
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