Sliding Doors of CSS

Image-driven, visually compelling user interfaces. Text-based, semantic markup. Now you can have both! Douglas Bowman’s sliding doors method of CSS design offers sophisticated graphics that squash and stretch while delivering meaningful XHTML text. Have your cake and eat it, too!

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Sliding Doors of CSS, Part II

In Sliding Doors of CSS Part I, Douglas Bowman introduced a new technique for creating visually stunning interface elements with simple, text-based, semantic markup. In Part II, he pushes the technique even further with rollovers, a fix for IE/Win’s CSS bugs, and lots more.

Bowman, Douglas. List Apart, A (2003). Design>Web Design>CSS>Semantic

Раздвижные двери CSS

Среди редко обсуждаемых преимуществ CSS—возможность наложения фоновых изображений с целью получения различных эффектов. В соответствии со стандартом CSS2 для каждого фонового изображения требуется отдельный HTML элемент. В большинстве случаев, типичный код, описывающий общепринятые компоненты интерфейса, предоставляет в наше распоряжение несколько HTML элементов.

Bowman, Douglas. ID-AS.com (2003). (Russian) Design>Web Design>CSS

The Beauty and Business of CSS

Building designs with CSS is no longer a fringe activity practiced by standards geeks and early-adopters. Creative pioneers and highly skilled designers are bringing CSS to the mainstream. The explosion in popularity is ushering in a new wave of possibilities for web design. CSS provides greater design control, allows more flexibility, and enables sites to become attractive, accessible, and faster-loading, all at the same time.

Bowman, Douglas. Stop Design (2004). Presentations>Web Design>Standards>CSS

Pushing Your Limits (and Other Secrets of Designing with CSS)

What do you do when you feel like you’ve hit a brick wall? When it seems your creativity is limited by how much CSS you know how to beat into submission? How do you resist the temptation to give it all up and go back to tables? Why does it feel like the pros are constantly inventing new techniques each week, when you’re still struggling to keep up with the stuff you read about last year? Understanding how and where CSS fits into the design process is key to knowing how to push your own limits. Reviewing the principles of existing techniques — and learning why or how they came about — can extend your capabilities and help you gain confidence in solving future problems on your own.

Bowman, Douglas. Stop Design (2004). Presentations>Web Design>Standards>CSS