Ladies and gentlemen… presenting the 8th Wonder of the Virtual World—the max/min-height and max/min-width properties—making possible the manipulation of IE widths and heights into desirable proportions. The CSS expression attribute allows the execution of Javascript commands within the Internet Explorer.
This one is hot stuff simply because standards-based browsers, max/min-height and max/min-width properties are easy to do with the application of Cascading Style Sheets.

<div style=”max-width: 333px;”>
[the contents of this division will be at most 333px in width on compliant browsers]
</p>

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Stylizer

Stylizer, which was previously known as StyleSpread, is viewed by some web designers as one powerful CSS editor with interactive and radically non-stereotypical approach to CSS editing.
This CSS editor takes pride in its six new features: Live Preview, Powerful Color Tweaking, Editing and Diagnosing, Automatic Validation, real-Time Size Adjustment Capability and Superior User Interface.

Figure 1. Stylizer’s Live Preview
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CSS or Cascading Style Sheet is kind of a high-sounding term especially to laymen. And it sure is. But simply put, CSS is a sort of HTML Tag Modification System that gives you a way to control and manage standard HTML tags.

Here is an example: let’s say you want to put italicized words on your page and make the words slightly smaller as compared to the majority of texts found on the same page. In old school HTML, that can be done similar to the example below:

<font size=”-2″><i>My favorite place.</i></font>

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For web designers around the world, getting noticed by web designing groups could take them a notch higher in terms of self-esteem and passion to exceed limits. In relation to this, Heavy Backpack (www.heavy-backpack.com/ ) has recently released its list of Top 8 Web Designs.
According to Heavy Backpack, these 8 top web designs highlight the following positive characteristics that should be present in every business web design, namely: professional without being stuffy; communicates clearly; open and approachable and has distinct identity.

The Top 8

Number 1 in the list is Quo Consulting http://www.quo.com.au.

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For highly trained and seasoned CSS web-designers, bearing in mind and putting in action certain principles of web design is never a waste of time. For designing in the first place is pleasing yourself and users so that they will ask for more.

There are three keystones when it comes to web designing, namely: simplicity, directness, and purposefulness.

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Different color modes are available. So, want to learn about these in CSS. Here’s the link:

http://kilianvalkhof.com/2007/design/understanding-css-colour-modes/

Find out everything about color modes in CSS.

Hey…are you using CSS for designing your website? Let me tell you few tips and tricks, which you can use them.

1) Fancy table borders: It is very easy to create table borders that are fancy using CSS. Take a look at the below table:

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Want to know about the recent launch of Jaxer, visit http://ajaxian.com/archives/audible-ajax-episode-24-aptana-jaxer-talk.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO), a keyword for anyone who owns a website. Many find it difficult to make their websites SEO friendly. How to tackle this problem? Simple…design your website using CSS to make it SEO friendly. Let me detail you on the benefits or the advantages of using CSS for SEO purposes.

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