Tag Archives: CSS

The Google +1 Sprite Animation

Posted on June 9, 2011

How the +1 Button Works The +1 Button uses an advanced sprite technique to simulate an animated gif. The animation occurs when hovering over search results with +1 enabled, and the shine moves across the button. (The image to the … Continue reading →

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5 Easy Ways to Disable the Gravity Forms CSS Stylesheet

Posted on September 21, 2010

We can do this the easy way or the hard way. What’ll it be? The WordPress form plugin Gravity Forms (if you don’t use it, you should — it’s great) comes with a stylesheet found at [plugin-directory]/plugins/gravityforms/css/forms.css. SEODenver.com’s is found … Continue reading →

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How to prevent your Google background image from fading in slowly.

Posted on June 7, 2010

Google + slow loading = not worth having background images. In trying to keep their homepage as minimal as possible, in December Google switched to fading in the home page links only on an event: moving your mouse or tabbing … Continue reading →

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How to Prevent Loading WP-DownloadManager’s CSS File

Posted on November 13, 2009

If you want to disable the WordPress plugin WP-DownloadManager‘s download-css.css file from being loaded, add the following code to your functions.php file: remove_action(‘wp_print_styles’, ‘downloads_stylesheets’); Alternatively, if you would just like to use your own stylesheet, you can add a file … Continue reading →

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SteveSpangler.com Web Design Launched

Posted on November 4, 2008

Visit Katz Web Design-developed SteveSpangler.com As announced in August, Steve Spangler chose Katz Web Design to develop their blog. Their previous blog was aging and didn’t provide the functionality they needed. I was provided with a design by Blake Sumrall … Continue reading →

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Introducing: the SEO Stylesheet for Safari, Firefox, Opera, and IE

Posted on September 30, 2008

Firefox gets all the cool toys As I’ve written before, Firefox SEO — not Safari — gets all the glory. One of the great things about Firefox is the Add-ons (plugins) that extend its functionality. For web developers and SEOs, it’s … Continue reading →

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Simple Vertical Align Plugin for jQuery

Posted on September 8, 2008

Sometimes you may want to vertically align a block item, but the CSS-only vertical aligning methods don’t make you feel clean.  Personally, I hate having to style items as a table/table cell to get them to vertically align in Internet Explorer. … Continue reading →

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Google’s Sprite Image is a Thing of Beauty

Posted on June 3, 2008

Google Sprite changes over time: If you want to know more about CSS sprites and how to put them together, feast your eyes on Google’s: Then: Now: Here’s the history of Google’s PNG sprite image http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo.png http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo2.png http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo3.png http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo4.png http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo5.png … Continue reading →

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Disable Styles and Javascript in Safari with Keyboard Shortcuts – How To

Posted on June 2, 2008

Now Safari’s just as cool as Firefox If you’re a web developer on the Mac, you may be sick of everyone talking about Firefox Addons that do everything but wipe your ass. True, Firefox is a great browser that is … Continue reading →

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