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Last update: 5-feb-05

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CSS

CSS and the Body The HTML <BODY> tag is pretty boring on its own, but CSS makes it very powerful. Our interactive demo shows what happens when you tweak some of the parameters.

Fun with Style Sheets, Part 1. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) can give you a whole new palette of effects for your page. This page is about boxes.

Fun with Style Sheets, Part 2 - Stylish Rollovers You don't need Javascript or rollover images to do rollover effects, if you use CSS. Here's how.

Layouts using CSS, part 1 CSS can free you from using spacer graphics and tables to lay out a page.

Using HTML list tags, Part 2 Applying a simple set of CSS styles transforms the example from Part 1.

HTML

Controlling Text, part 1 The basics of aligning and manipulating text using the HTML <p> (paragraph), BLOCKQUOTE and DIV tags.

Using HTML list tags, Part 1 Don't list things the hard way -- the list tags are very useful, and have several benefits.

Photoshop

Those Little Icon-y Things and how to make them. They're called favicons, and you can have them, too.