Archive for the ‘Web development’ Category

Styling HTML Lists with CSS: Replacing Bullets with Background Images

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

In this fifth part of a series I discuss a couple of basic methods that permit you to replace the default bullets of an unordered HTML list with a custom background image. These simple-to-understand approaches should cause you no major problems when you implement them while building your own web pages….

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Styling HTML Lists with CSS: Changing the Appearance of Bulleted Items

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

In this fourth part of the series I show how easy it is to assign different styles to the bullets of an HTML list with CSS. While the examples only demonstrate how to create square and circle bullets in a snap it s feasible to create a few additional styles by assigning other values to the corresponding list-style property….

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Styling HTML Lists with CSS: Manipulating Padding and Margins at the Same Time

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

In this third part of a series I demonstrate how easy it is to manipulate simultaneously the padding and margins of an HTML list with CSS. In fact the process is so simple that you shouldn t have major trouble replicating it when designing your own web pages….

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Styling HTML Lists with CSS: Specifying Padding and Margins in Pixels

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

In this second part of a series you will learn how to assign individual values to the padding and margin properties of an HTML list. The process is simple to understand it s very similar to performing the same task with other web page elements….

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Styling HTML Lists with CSS: Resetting Padding and Margins

Monday, August 30th, 2010

In this first part of the series on styling HTML lists with CSS I explain how to reset their padding and margins. The entire styling process is very easy to follow….

Application Deployment with Capistrano

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

In this conclusion to a five-part series on application deployment with Ruby on Rails you ll learn how to create and use the Capistrano Deployment recipe. This article is excerpted from chapter 12 of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ….

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Deploying an Application to the Server

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

In this fourth part to a five-part series on deploying a Rails application you ll learn how to deploy an application manually create users and groups and more. This article is excerpted from chapter 12 of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ….

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Absolute Positioning in CSS: a Dynamic Menu

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

In this conclusion to a three-part series on how to use absolute positioning in CSS you ll learn how to build an easily customizable drop-down menu with this frequently under-appreciated feature….

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Google Ajax APIs: Building a Navigation Bar with the Easing jQuery Plug-in

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

This is the final part of a six-part series that shows you how to use the various animation options of the Easing jQuery plug-in to make a navigation bar work properly. In this part we ll modify the bar so that its JavaScript dependencies can be downloaded from the cloud….

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CSS Absolute Positioning: Creating a Quick Search Form

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

In this second article of the series I cover in depth a use case where relative and absolute positioning can yield satisfactory results the implementation of a quick search form within the heading section of a web page. The driving logic of this approach is not difficult to grasp so you shouldn t have any major problems applying it when developing your own websites….

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