CSS-Tricks Screencasts
213 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsCSS-Tricks Screencasts is focused on showing you tips, tricks, techniques about web design. Code samples can be extremely helpful, but sometimes it is even more helpful to watch someone as they code. In CSS-Tricks Screencasts will show you real live CSS and HTML code being written and tested right on the screen. Topics will vary but will always center around design and usability.
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#13: Converting a Photoshop Mockup: Part Two, Episode Two
December 02, 2008 15:03 - 25 minutes - 67.3 MB VideoIn Episode Two of this series, we continue on with the structure of the site. In Photoshop, we create the three different states of the menu, then slice them up and use the CSS sprites technique to create the rollover …
#12: Converting a Photoshop Mockup: Part Two, Episode One
December 01, 2008 14:56 - 22 minutes - 57.6 MB VideoThere has been LOTS of great feedback on the first series of Converting a Photoshop Mockup into HTML/CSS. So let’s do it again! Every website is different will require different conversion technqiues so there will be plenty to learn this …
#11: Working Modularly with PHP
November 26, 2008 15:49 - 14 minutes - 27.3 MB VideoMany sites do not use any fancy Content Management System (CMS) to generate their pages, they are just just good ol’ static HTML content. A site for your grandmothers pie baking business probably only has a few pages, perhaps a …
#10: Fixed Width, Fluid Width & Elastic Width
November 25, 2008 15:46 - 16 minutes - 40.4 MB VideoThere are three different types of layouts for websites: Fixed Width, Fluid Width, and Elastic Width. In this screencast we look at all these three varieties of sites out on the web as well as some hybrid sites and other …
#9: Starry Night: 3D Background with the Parallax Effect
November 25, 2008 03:08 - 14 minutes - 22.8 MB VideoUsing three layers of alpha transparent PNG files, we can can create a pseudo 3-dimensional looking background for a web page. This screencast covers how to do that from start to finish. Since Internet Explorer 6 and under do not …
#8: CSS Formatting
November 23, 2008 18:39 - 14 minutes - 16.4 MB VideoBeing organized and using good formatting in your CSS files can save you lots of time and frustration during your development process and especially during troubleshooting. The multi-line format makes it easy to browse attributes but makes your file vertically …
#7: Three State Menu
November 22, 2008 18:36 - 27 minutes - 30.6 MB VideoUsing a variation of the CSS Sprites technique, we can create a “three state” menu using only one image per menu item. This reduces the number of requests on your server as well as eliminates any “pauses” while moving to …
#6: Tools of the Trade
November 21, 2008 15:40 - 15 minutes - 13.7 MB VideoBefore I get too far along in these screencasts, I thought I would introduce you a little to my working environment and explain the tools that I use. First off, I work on a Mac, so these tools are Mac …
#5: Columns of Equal Height: Super Simple Two Column Layout
November 20, 2008 15:37 - 12 minutes - 16.7 MB VideoForcing multiple columns to be of equal height is one of those tricky things in web design. In this screencast I’ll show you a little trick around it. Instead of making the actual elements themselves equal height, we’ll use a …
#4: Forcing Scrollbars: Eliminating “Horizontal Jumps”
November 19, 2008 14:48 - 7 minutes - 11 MB VideoIn this screencast I talk about how to force vertical scrollbars onto websites. Without doing this, pages with centered content can appear to “jump” to the left or right when going from a page that needs to vertically scroll to …
#3: Converting a Photoshop Mockup (part 3 of 3)
November 12, 2008 20:35 - 31 minutes - 73.5 MB VideoI finish up the design in part three of this series on coverting an Adobe Photoshop website mockup into an actual HTML/CSS website. This one focuses on the main content area. I create the the columns including the “quick links” …
#2: Converting a Photoshop Mockup (part 2 of 3)
November 11, 2008 20:29 - 17 minutes - 29.8 MB VideoIn part two of this series on converting a Photoshop mockup to an HTML/CSS Website I continue on with the header/menu section of the site. I change the way in which the site is centered when I decide to wrap …
#1: Converting a Photoshop Mockup (part 1 of 3)
November 10, 2008 22:41 - 10 minutes - 29.8 MB VideoIn this first-ever video podcast, I start the conversion process of an Adobe Photoshop mockup of a website, into a real live CSS based website. This is pretty rough here folks, I’m sure these will get more focused with time. …