Ask the CSS Guy

About This Site

Welcome. After spending a few years learning and implementing CSS, friends started asking me questions on how to accomplish certain layouts using CSS. I thought maybe there was a market for a site like this, so I started it. (Yeah, it uses the default movable type template - a real design is in the works.)

I realize that a name like "Ask the CSS guy" is a bit pretentious, but saying "Ask a CSS Guy" doesn't quite sound as good, does it? So, yeah, I'm positioning myself as an expert, but anybody who is anybody knows I'm not the expert.

I started learning CSS in 2003 when a coworker at a new place I started working said, "This is how we do things." He mentioned a guy named "Zeldman" and other names like "Cederholm" and "Meyer", and though I had never heard of them before, I scrambled to find out who they are and digest as much of what they've written as possible. A name like theirs, or the others that run in their circle, would probably better qualify as the CSS guy. I would hope that any CSS assistance I may provide to you would be approved by those guys.

Thanks.

11-25-2006: Default Movable Type template is no more!

Comments (11)

PIMMY said:

nice site.

I have a question though. Can you hyperlink a background image set inside stylesheet? Or can we set hyperlink location inside style sheet?

Thanks

Rajiv said:

Hi there,

I am designing my own website www.vaishnavs.com, when i try to validate it , only www.vaishnavs.com/default.asp which is the home page gets validated 100% but rest of the pages like webdesign, 3d modeling, gets tons of error, please help,

I am totally new to this css/xhtml stuff

regards
Rajiv

Steve said:

Hi, great site!

I have been searching around the net for a long time for a way to have a persistent state for links.

For example, if I have a row of links (link1,link2,link3) with text-dec:none which only show/hide divs.

When I hover over a link it gets a bottom border, when I click on it, I want it to hold that border even after I click another item on the page (background,textbox, anything except for another link of course!). So it will always show the last link that was clicked.

Using "focus" loses its border when you click on anything else.

Hope you can help! TIA

Lori said:

The CSS Guy is awesome! He was very responsive and helped me with a JavaScript form validation problem I had been struggling with for days.

Thank you, CSS Guy, for relieving my headache and making it harder for spammers to use our online forms!

Lori

Marc said:

Do you accept CSS support calls for paypal cash?

CSS Guy said:

@Marc:

Not at the moment.

Bernie said:

This site is unbelievably great. CSS stuff I've never heard of -- and explained well.

Thanks for doing this site.

Bernie

Tyler @ Building Camelot said:

Just came across your site and I saw the post you made about a job posting in Memphis. Do you live in Memphis?

You have a great website. Most of what you write about is WAY over my head, but I have been able to pick up on a few things.

daflai said:

Bro, you have a great Site

regards from Costa Rica

Lee said:

You will have to excuse me because i am quite new to CSS. I am trying to create a personal website using style sheets - with a basic two column layout with a header and footer. I have created the elements of the front page and have the navigatin bar on the left (Home, About me, etc) but i am unsure how to code it so that when one of the links on th nav menu on the left is clicked - it will open the page in the central column (main content column) without removing the nav bar menu/header and footer.
Any help would be appreciated.

Lauren said:

I have found some of your articles pretty useful, thanks. Do you have any other websites?

 

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