Styling HTML Lists with CSS: Replacing Bullets with Background Images in Style Sheets | | | | Rating:  / 1
2010-09-08 | | | | | In this fifth part of a series, I discuss a couple of basic methods that permit you to replace the default bullets of an unordered HTML list with a custom background image. These simple-to-understand approaches should cause you no major problems when you implement them while building your own web pages. Discuss (1) |
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Styling HTML Lists with CSS: Changing the Appearance of Bulleted Items in Style Sheets | | | | Rating: / 1
2010-09-07 | | | | | In this fourth part of the series, I show how easy it is to assign different styles to the bullets of an HTML list with CSS. While the examples only demonstrate how to create square and circle bullets in a snap, it’s feasible to create a few additional styles by assigning other values to the corresponding “list-style” property. Discuss (1) |
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Styling HTML Lists with CSS: Manipulating Padding and Margins at the Same Time in Style Sheets | | | | Rating: / 1
2010-09-01 | | | | | In this third part of a series, I demonstrate how easy it is to manipulate simultaneously the padding and margins of an HTML list with CSS. In fact, the process is so simple that you shouldn’t have major trouble replicating it when designing your own web pages. Discuss (1) |
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Styling HTML Lists with CSS: Specifying Padding and Margins in Pixels in Style Sheets | | | | Rating: / 2
2010-08-31 | | | | | In this second part of a series, you will learn how to assign individual values to the “padding” and “margin” properties of an HTML list. The process is simple to understand; it's very similar to performing the same task with other web page elements. Discuss (1) |
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Styling HTML Lists with CSS: Resetting Padding and Margins in Style Sheets | | | | Rating: / 1
2010-08-30 | | | | | In this first part of the series on styling HTML lists with CSS, I explain how to reset their padding and margins. The entire styling process is very easy to follow. Discuss (1) |
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Application Deployment with Capistrano in Ruby-on-Rails | | | | Rating: / 1
2010-08-25 | | | | | In this conclusion to a five-part series on application deployment with Ruby on Rails, you'll learn how to create and use the Capistrano Deployment recipe. This article is excerpted from chapter 12 of the book Practical Rails Projects, written by Eldon Alameda (Apress; ISBN: 1590597818). |
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Deploying an Application to the Server in Ruby-on-Rails | | | | Rating: / 1
2010-08-24 | | | | | In this fourth part to a five-part series on deploying a Rails application, you'll learn how to deploy an application manually, create users and groups, and more. This article is excerpted from chapter 12 of the book Practical Rails Projects, written by Eldon Alameda (Apress; ISBN: 1590597818). |
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Absolute Positioning in CSS: a Dynamic Menu in Style Sheets | | | | Rating: / 1
2010-08-23 | | | | | In this conclusion to a three-part series on how to use absolute positioning in CSS, you'll learn how to build an easily customizable drop-down menu with this frequently under-appreciated feature. Discuss (1) |
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Google Ajax APIs: Building a Navigation Bar with the Easing jQuery Plug-in in JavaScript | | | | Rating: / 1
2010-08-18 | | | | | This is the final part of a six-part series that shows you how to use the various animation options of the Easing jQuery plug-in to make a navigation bar work properly. In this part, we'll modify the bar so that its JavaScript dependencies can be downloaded from the cloud. Discuss (1) |
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CSS Absolute Positioning: Creating a Quick Search Form in Style Sheets | | | | Rating:  / 2
2010-08-17 | | | | | In this second article of the series, I cover in depth a use case where relative and absolute positioning can yield satisfactory results: the implementation of a quick search form within the heading section of a web page. The driving logic of this approach is not difficult to grasp, so you shouldn’t have any major problems applying it when developing your own websites. Discuss (1) |
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Easing jQuery Plug-in: Using the easeOutBack Effect to Build a Navigation Bar in JavaScript | | | | Rating: / 1
2010-08-16 | | | | | In this penultimate installment of the series, I show how simple it is to animate the links bar we've been creating by using the easing options bundled with the Easing plug-in. In this article's example, the animation is implemented via the “easeOutBack” effect, but if you wish, it's quite possible to use a different easing option and create interesting variations in a snap. Discuss (1) |
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CSS: Building Tooltips with Absolute Positioning in Style Sheets | | | | Rating: / 1
2010-08-11 | | | | | CSS lets you position items both relatively and absolutely on a web page. The use of relative positioning makes sense when your layouts need to be flexible to accommodate various browsers and hardware. But how useful is absolute positioning? More than you might think. Discuss (3) |
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jQuery Easing Plug-in: Building a Navigation Bar using the easeOutElastic Effect in JavaScript | | | | Rating: / 1
2010-08-10 | | | | | In this fourth part of a six-part series, I show how to create a slightly different version of the previous navigation bar by using the “easeOutElastic” easing effect provided by the Easing plug-in. Achieving this is a straightforward process reduced to calling jQuery’s “animate()” method with the name of the effect to apply. Discuss (1) |
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Secure Application Deployment with Ruby on Rails in Ruby-on-Rails | | | | Rating: / 2
2010-08-09 | | | | | In this third part of a five-part series on deploying an ecommerce application with Ruby on Rails, you will learn how to configure access to the application so that it is properly secured, and more. This article is excerpted from chapter 12 of the book Practical Rails Projects, written by Eldon Alameda (Apress; ISBN: 1590597818). |
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Installing the Database for Application Deployment in Ruby-on-Rails | | | | Rating: / 0
2010-08-06 | | | | | In this second part of a multi-part article series, you'll learn how to install various parts of an application in preparation for deploying it online. This article is excerpted from chapter 12 of the book Practical Rails Projects, written by Eldon Alameda (Apress; ISBN: 1590597818). |
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