CSS Sprites: Image Slicing's Kiss of Death

Say goodbye to old-school slicing and dicing when creating image maps, buttons, and navigation menus. Instead, say hello to a deceptively simple yet powerful sprite-based CSS solution.

Shea, Dave. List Apart, A (2004). Design>Web Design>CSS

CSS Sprites2: It's JavaScript Time

In 2004, Dave Shea took the CSS rollover where it had never gone before. Now he takes it further still—with a little help from jQuery. Say hello to hover animations that respond to a user’s behavior in ways standards-based sites never could before.

Shea, Dave. List Apart, A (2008). Articles>Web Design>CSS>DHTML

The Web Beyond the Desktop

For the viewer, time shifting has been a dramatic improvement over the traditional experience of watching TV. The web is about to experience as dramatic a shift in place for the user of a website, which will inevitably affect the way we design and develop web sites and applications in the future.

Shea, Dave. Digital Web Magazine (2008). Articles>Web Design>Wireless Web

Stop Hacking, or be Stopped

CSS has experienced a colourful and unusual history. From historic slow adoption to the current slow rate of development, ugly hacks have meant filling in the gaps is par for the course. But now that Internet Explorer 7 is looming, we're getting ready to deal with the first really major upgrade to a browser's rendering engine since we've started using CSS-based layouts in earnest.

Shea, Dave. Vitamin (2006). Articles>Web Design>CSS