June 5, 2013 | Chris Rock

Flexbox CSS Cross-browser Issues

In my Flexbox CSS Tutorial post, I talked about all the great and interesting features that flexbox offers. Unfortunately, the implementation of these features is currently a mess. The reason comes from the fact that the specifications have changed and matured over time, and different browsers have implements that changing spec at different times. We [...]

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Flexbox CSS Tutorial

If you've been in web development for a while, you've known the struggles of getting a document layout to work just right. The problem is, HTML and CSS were developed with documents in mind, but creative web developers wanted to do more than just style documents, they wanted their websites to look and feel more [...]

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December 28, 2012 | Chris Rock

AJAX-ifying WordPress – Creating a one-page experience with WordPress

The Challenge Recently a client of ours, Collection Brokerage, came to us who wanted the easy-to-use WordPress system to manage a stylish, one-page website design. In order to get WordPress to do this, we needed to overcome a couple of challenges for web development: Header and footer stay fixed, main content and sidebar content are [...]

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July 11, 2012 | Chris Rock

Shelf Effect Using CSS Table-layout

Recently the designers here at Eli Kirk gave me a new challenge, which is exciting because I always like challenges that can improve my web development skills. The challenge was to create a menu in which the menu items looked like they were on the edge of a shelf, with an image sitting above it [...]

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