Controlling Safari & Chrome’s Resizable Textarea with Simple CSS

This article shows you how to get a "handle" on Webkit's resizable textarea by managing its resize area without disabling the feature, as some have proposed. By now, most web surfers are aware that as of Safari 3, the Webkit engine [...]

3 Ways to Get Rid of Spaces in List Item Navigation in IE6

If you've ever tried to create an all-css navigation for your website, then you've seen it: dreaded spaces when viewed in Internet Explorer 6 on Windows. This article will outline 3 different ways that you can get rid of these spaces in vertical list item navigation. And in [...]

You Snooze, You Lose – Reasons & Ways to Avoid Design Apathy

This is my reasoning on why procrastinating on idea development is bad, and my take on how to get motivated & avoid design apathy. As a designer, I know what it's like to have an awesome design hit me at 2:00 a.m. and think "I'll do that in the morning", [...]

Simulate Frames with Pure CSS

Here's a CSS tip that may be new to you, depending on your time in the game. Originally presented at Barcamp Dallas We've all used frames at some point in our deep, dark web design pasts. Then, when we got hip to [...]