I’m sure you’ve heard the talk about CSS3. If you’re on Twitter and follow the industry heavy-weights, I know you have. The topic is seemingly everywhere. Gone are the days of using images for rounded corners! Not only that we can use any font we want on our pages! Right?!?
Not so fast, Usain Bolt.
Here are five things you should know before diving into the CSS3 deep end.
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I was going to write a tutorial on CSS Sprites. I felt that although web designers knew of CSS Sprites, they were still somewhat misunderstood. When I started preparing to write the post, I came across all these great tutorials. Rather than add one more, I thought I would gather them together in one place. My hope is that upon reading these tutorials you will have a complete grasp of CSS Sprites and what they can do for you. Enjoy.
1) Tutorial 9 – Building Fasters Websites with CSS Sprites
Somewhere around 1990, Tim Berners-Lee developed a hypertext language known as HTML to work in collaboration with the World Wide Web. Early web pages had a very basic text structure with very few (if any) images. Inevitably web developers wanted more control over how their pages were presented and HTML grew to accommodate that. Many tags and attributes were added to HTML to do everything from changing a font size to tabulating data to aligning content. Needless to say, HTML became complicated and hard to maintain. Something was needed to separate the markup (HTML) from the presentation of the web page. A style sheet was the answer.
CSS is an amazingly powerful web design tool. For web designers just starting out, intermediate-to-advanced CSS techniques can be hard to grasp. In this short and sweet tutorial I will teach you a great CSS trick that is easy to implement and easy to understand.
