Category Archives: CSS

CSS Frameworks

By Alastair | January 29, 2008

YAML, Blueprint, Tripoli, YahooUI – not the latest competition to Rails, Django, CakePHP, or Wicket but a set of CSS frameworks to jumpstart page layout.
I had been using YahooUI (and sometimes the DreamBeaver templates) but YAML’s Builder and Blueprint’s Generator look like good ways to get started.
Or you can always pay someone else to do [...]

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Load an external style sheet into Flex

By Alastair | January 28, 2008

I’m surprised I haven’t tried this before but you can’t load an external style sheet into Flex. The Adobe documentation mentions loading external CSS files, but they always mean loading a style sheet before you compile your SWF which isn’t what I’d call a true external style sheet.
Thankfully Ruben has written a class that will [...]

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It’s the new style

By Alastair | January 24, 2008

The blog gets a refresh. This is a preview of the new vixiom.com which has been under redesign for about a year now
The blog has almost become my main site, I get all my new leads through it (or word of mouth). In my not too distant youth I used to think you [...]

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The Best CSS Editor Just Got Better

By Alastair | November 6, 2006

I’ve been using CSSEdit for the last couple of months and it’s sharply increased my productivity when working with style sheets. Today MacRabbit released version 2.0 (of course) and it is jaw-droppingly good, TextMate good.
There are five major new features but my favorite so far is ‘Overridding’ which as the name suggests give you the [...]

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