Posts Tagged ‘CSS’

Version 4.0 of the YAML modular CSS framework arrives

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Version 4.0 of the YAML modular CSS framework arrives

Following more than a year of development work, the YAML developers have announced the arrival of version 4.0 of their open source modular CSS framework. Not to be confused with the “YAML Ain’t Markup Language” data serialisation format, this YAML stands for “Yet Another Multicolumn Layout” and provides web developers with tools and templates for creating pages with multi-column or grid layouts without using HTML tables.

The major update includes several changes that its developers say result in a more flexible and customisable grid module, and the form toolkit has been improved by separating the functional styles and theme-stylesheets for visual design. The documentation has also been completely rewritten and new layout demos are included. The developers note that all of the core features are now namespaced with the prefix “ym-” in order to help avoid any conflicts with other CSS code.

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Storm start slow and finish fast at Top Ten tournament

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

Storm start slow and finish fast at Top Ten tournament

The Chilliwack secondary school senior girls basketball team overcame a ton of adversity to go 2-2 at last weekend’s Top Ten Centennial tournament in Coquitlam.

The Storm came in as the 16th seed, and fell 87-42 to the top-ranked Riverside Rapids in their opener. Christina Vandenbrink led CSS with 14 points with Janine Leijen adding nine.

The Storm fell to 0-2 with a 54-40 loss to the ninth-ranked Gleneagle Talons (Coquitlam). The Talons killed CSS with long range bombs, getting nine three-pointers from five different shooters.

Nicole Bartel led the Storm offence with 14 points, with Natalie Hoogeveen adding 13.

CSS got their first win against the host Centennial Centaurs, taking a 59-36 final behind 13 points from Kelsi McLean and 11 from Megan Wierks. All nine CSS players had at least one point.

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Effective and Powerful CSS Tools & Generators for Designers

Saturday, October 2nd, 2010

Effective and Powerful CSS Tools & Generators for Designers

CSS has come a long way from formatting the structured content. It was used to control layout of documents precisely and to apply different layouts to media types. Today CSS is used to give the look and feel of giving importance to the layout and design. It saves the time which makes loading much faster and is quite easy to maintain.

But not so easy to design a page with CSS because of the compatibility issues with different browsers and even the best designers may find it time consuming to develop the whole by themselves, due to which they have to rely on online tools sometimes because they are quite easy to download, work well with your browser and provide you with ample time for testing too. So we have development tools which help you to overcome these problems.
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Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong!

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong!

New from SitePoint: Change The Way You Use CSS Forever SitePoint recently announced the release of Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong! ($29.95 USD)-a cutting-edge CSS book that web designers can’t afford to miss.

Written by Rachel Andrew, author of the popular book The CSS Anthology, and Kevin Yank, author of Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site Using PHP & MySQL, this book will excite even the most experienced CSS designer.

Published in full color, this eye-opening expose teaches web designers how to use cutting edge techniques, whilst still catering for older browsers.

Kevin Yank, SitePoint’s Technical Director and co-author of the book, provided his viewpoint on this unusual title: “When I first came up with the idea for this book, I thought it was a little out there. But the more of it we wrote, the more I realised that this really is the future of CSS…and the future is closer than you think.”

SitePoint co-founder, Matt Mickiewicz, also comments: “It’s been a while since a book’s been released that teaches a fresh new approach to designing web pages with CSS. We’re quite excited and proud to be helping designers get ready for this new phase of CSS design.”
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SiteAssist Professional Enables Users to Build CSS Sites with Navigation in Minutes

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

SiteAssist Professional Enables Users to Build CSS Sites with Navigation in Minutes

WebAssist today announced SiteAssist Professional, the next evolution of their best-selling SiteAssist product. SiteAssist Professional provides incredible new functionalities to build entire CSS-based sites, complete with navigation and personal customization to pages, in just minutes.

Web professionals continue to embrace the power of CSS in their development, but are still encumbered by the time and process inherent with it. To solve the challenge of creating smooth-flowing sites, SiteAssist Professional walks web designers and developers through the building of a CSS site from beginning to end, allowing them to build CSS sites easily and without the hurdles.

SiteAssist Professional delivers web standards compliance and expertly designed and full-featured web pages, integrated with drop-down navigation for easy web site creation, publishing, and highly-flexible customization options. In addition to the 16 included expertly-crafted layouts, SiteAssist Professional users can use designs created in Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor, a WebAssist extension for Adobe Dreamweaver and Microsoft Expression Web, or from their own Dreamweaver templates.

For the first time, web developers can also create and customize their pages to include Spry or other JavaScript framework components within the template, while also taking advantage of support for standard Dreamweaver templates, CSS Sculptor layouts, and CSS Menu Writer navigation. All CSS templates within the SiteAssist Professional library are customizable, eliminating the “cookie-cutter” look and the need to start from scratch for professionals. Even beginners can enjoy a customized, professional look without the obstacles or learning curve.

“CSS is, undeniably, one of the most efficient and flexible ways to build sites today, but it isn’t without its limitations,” said Hieu Bui, President, WebAssist. “SiteAssist Professional seeks to help developers, both professional and beginner alike, harness the power of CSS easily and utilize their resources more effectively with customization of templates and easy navigation options.”

The SiteAssist wizard makes site creation point-and-click simple. In the wizard, SiteAssist users first select from a variety of industry-specific Web site structures including those for clubs or associations, consultants, education, medical professionals, non-profits and real estate. A full range of layouts, fonts, color and navigations are available in the second step of the wizard; users are free to mix-and-match to create their unique designs. Page layouts are assigned in the next step: a complete slate of page types, also known as information architecture wireframes, is included. Entire new branches of the site can be added with the click of a mouse. After the site is created, it can be modified for complete customization directly within Dreamweaver.

New Features in SiteAssist Professional include:

* Totally new engine – rebuilt from the ground up
* Web-standards compliant, CSS-based layouts
* CSS-based drop-down and fly-out navigation

* Compatible with Dreamweaver templates
* New templates included, 14 in all
* 16 different site types included

* Integrates with Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor
* Supports CSS Menu Writer
* Imports custom page types

Source : prweb.com