Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve been working for the last month or two on some super cool mobile templates for a client. As I’ve mentioned in other posts, we’ve pulled out all of the awesome for this. If Tridion were a person, it would … Continue reading
Tag: CSS
Tridion Pro Tip: Add a Multimedia Type for CSS Preprocessor extensions
Reading Time: 2 minutesSo, you’re hooked on the idea of using a CSS preprocessor, and you’re thinking of even managing your files in Tridion. Not a bad idea, right? But uploading those binaries into a multimedia schema isn’t as easy as it looks. … Continue reading
Architecting the CSS in a Tridion Implementation (How to keep the hippies from winning)
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn a previous post that I wrote, I talked about living the web developer’s fantasy of being told, “be as cutting edge as you want”, and how Joe Shirley (a fellow Tahzooligan) and I decided to use all the nice … Continue reading
CSS: The Breakdown || The Selector and Grammar (Part 1)
Reading Time: 11 minutesCSS is so cool and easy! Since it’s not a programming language, anyone can do it! You just need to know the properties and how to write a selector, and the job is done! If you agreed with any of … Continue reading
Contenteditable, CSS, Scoped, and advanced in-browser editing
Reading Time: 4 minutesI’ve said before and I’ll say again that contenteditable is one of the coolest attributes you can apply to an element. This lil’ gem originates from Microsoft, of all places, and has been there since IE5.5. Well, the other browsers … Continue reading
Clever CSS Tricks: Debugging HTML and CSS with Generated Content and Pseudo Elements
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJust this morning I had a small conundrum where I was trying to debug some HTML and CSS that I had written. Specifically, I was trying to figure out where some of my wrappers were, and how some alt and … Continue reading
CSS for a CMS: Adapting to what the content author puts on the page
Reading Time: 5 minutesWorking in Content Management System (CMS) implementations has its challenges. While some of those challenges are in the application itself, many can be with the content authors. Content authors expect a certain amount of flexibility in how they can add … Continue reading
CSS3: Structural Pseudo-Class Patterns
Reading Time: 4 minutesCSS3 offers a ton of brand new ways that you can select elements in ways we’ve never thought of before. Today I want to focus on exclusively the structural pseudo-classes, which are ways of selecting elements based on the document … Continue reading
Clever CSS3 Tricks: Using the em in text-shadow and box-shadow
Reading Time: 3 minutesAny of my web development buddies have learned that I’m a huge fan of the em. Huge fan. We’d be Facebook friends, we’d go on vacation together, yadda yadda yadda. When you look at my online resume you’ll be hard-up … Continue reading
CSS Sorcery: Performing Magic with the Attribute Selector
Reading Time: 4 minutesLast week I was tackling a CSS problem when I suddenly stumbled into the magical world of the attribute selector. It’s not that I didn’t know about it, it’s that I didn’t know how powerful it was. And I wasn’t … Continue reading