GD Library

25 Jul

This will test if ImageCopyResampled is installed on the server.

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Vertical Text with CSS

2 Nov

This creates a quite interesting effect of vertical text, in this example used with a link.

Unfortunately this is IE only, so use with caution. If your audience consists of IE only (or if you don’t give a damn about other browsers, I know you guys are out there) then go ahead.

Hopefully, alot of improvements to vertical text standards wise will come with CSS3.

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Thin Horizontal Rule <hr> with CSS

13 May

The Horizontal Rule tag <hr> has been around for a long time, and still used to visually separate elements on web pages. Here is how you can change this line to be a pencil thin 1px line. (more…)

Stretch an image with HTML

12 Jan

If you want to stretch an image depending on how wide it’s container is, you can do so with a relative width in your width attribute. It’s pretty easy to do, does not look so nice, but often asked about. (more…)

XHTML, Extensible Hypertext Markup Language

19 May

Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML), or
simply XTML, is a markup language that has the same
expressive possibilities as HTML, but conforms to
the XML standard which is more strict. This also
allows it to be extended more easily without
breaking existing implementations. XHTML 1.0 became
a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Recommendation on
January 26, 2000. (more…)