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Lorelle VanFossen is one of the top bloggers in the world, and host of the Lorelle on WordPress, providing WordPress and blogging tips for bloggers of all levels. A popular keynote speaker and trainer, she is also editor, producer, contributor, and official disruptive thinker for Bitwire Media which includes WordCast, Making My Life Network, Stories of Our Journeys, Life on the Road, WordCast Conversations, and the very popular WordCast Podcast. She is also author of one of the first books on blogging, "Blogging Tips: What Bloggers Won't Tell You About Blogging" and the recently released ebook, Social Media for Crafters: Covering the Basics of the Social Web. Taking Your Camera on the Road, founded by Lorelle, is one of the oldest personal websites in continuous existence in the world.

CSS Tips and Tricks – Jazzing Up the Content

We’ve show how to jazz up a web page’s content within a container or box. Now it is time to look at some tips and tricks for jazzing up the content. CSS Text Effects There are a variety of text characteristics you can also add to jazz up your text. First of all, you can […]

CSS Tips and Tricks

While we avoid a lot of whizbang tricks, we have used a few here and there. Most recently, we discovered some useful tricks when designing a “fancy” version of our web page layout. A major part of these we turned into our CSS Experiments. As nature photographers and instructors, Brent likes to teach the following […]

Computer Fun and Games

So many people seem so panicked and fearful of their computer, from worrying about viruses and the horrors coming in through their email to the fear they might touch something and make it crash and blow up – I thought I’d take a moment to share with you the fun things you can do with […]

Winning Web Page and Website Awards

For your information, we’ve provided a list of sites which offer awards for web pages and Websites based upon different criteria: design, layout, structure, content, accessibility, and overall quality. If you are interested in winning awards for your web page design and development, make sure your site is award-winning first and then you may submit […]

CSS Unleashed – Experiments with CSS Designs

99 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW YOU COULD DO WITH CSS * *And How To Do Them Well! We decided to offer up some of our own experiments for you to learn more about CSS and for us to have a little fun, too. The following designs were completely created without tables, using only Cascading Style […]

Banning Computer Games in Greece

Just when you thought the world couldn’t get more strange, with people who let wackos run their government and dictate what they can do, wear, think, and believe, we find something else to make us believe that the world is even more screwed up than we thought. Growing up in Seattle, our joke to compete […]

CSS Unleashed – Variations on a Theme

We’ve been looking at a variety of CSS experimental examples, and now I’d like to take you through a design journey. These ideas come from magazines and advertising material, but they also come from a simple idea that is then played with to create different effects. Play with these effects and you have variations on […]

CSS Unleashed – Experiments with Quotations, Pull-quotes and Blockquotes

CSS containers and boxes can be used to create a wide range of blockquotes, pull-quotes and quotes in general, highlighting a bit of content to attract attention. These can also be used as boxes to highlight tips, advice, or sidebar information with the help of a few bullets in a list. We want to push […]

CSS Unleashed – Experiments Playing With CSS Blocks

CSS Experiments CSS Unleashed – Experiments with CSS Designs CSS Book Recommendations CSS Experiments Playing With CSS Blocks CSS Experiments with CSS Logo Designs CSS Experiments with Background Images and Backgrounds CSS Experiments with Lists, Menus, Tables of Content, and More CSS Experiments – Web Fonts and Embedded Fonts CSS Unleashed – Experiments with Quotations, […]

CSS Unleashed – Experiments with CSS Logo Designs

CSS Experiments CSS Unleashed – Experiments with CSS Designs CSS Book Recommendations CSS Experiments Playing With CSS Blocks CSS Experiments with CSS Logo Designs CSS Experiments with Background Images and Backgrounds CSS Experiments with Lists, Menus, Tables of Content, and More CSS Experiments – Web Fonts and Embedded Fonts CSS Unleashed – Experiments with Quotations, […]

CSS Unleashed – Experiments Showcasing Your Photography

As nature and travel photographers, we are always looking for interesting ways to showcase and display our photographs and images, whether on their own in a photo gallery display online or within our articles. These are some examples of the CSS experiments with CSS design that we’ve been working on to showcase and display our […]

CSS Unleashed – Experiments with Background Images and Backgrounds

The background element in CSS offers a wide range of possibilities including embedded background images, content over backgrounds, and backgrounds as art. As you play with your CSS experiments with backgrounds and background images, it’s important to understand how they work, where they work, and how to control their appearance. Let’s start with a few […]

CSS Unleashed – Experiments with Lists, Menus, Tables of Content, and More

There are many ways of arranging content. Articles often feature tip boxes, pull-quotes, blockquotes, lists, tables of contents, and menu items helping people get the information they need within and without of the scope of the article. These can also include step-by-step instructions pulled from the article to help take people through the process. We […]

CSS Tips and Tricks – CSS Links and Rollovers

There are a lot of things you can do with links, including creating link menus with different types of “hovers” or rollover effects. We take you step-by-step through a variety of link techniques and CSS experiments to expand the possibilities by changing background and hover styles. Then we explore even more advanced techniques of using […]

CSS Unleashed – Experiments Putting It All Together

NOTE: This article was originally written in 2003 and includes links to articles going back to the early days of HTML and CSS web development. While we’ve done our best to keep some of the information updated, these documents also serve as historical references on the history of web design and web development. Please check […]