Monday, September 29, 2014

CSS Style Guidelines for Websites

As we wrap up our recent poll on ordering CSS properties, it brings up the larger issue of CSS style guides. Ordering properties is just one choice you have to make that makes up a complete styling strategy. Naming is a part of it. Sectioning is a part of it. Commenting, indentation, overall file structure... it all makes up a complete CSS style guide.
Let's round up some existing ones.

Create Graffiti Text Effect using Photoshop

Creating Graffiti text using Photoshop is more popular nowdays. I found this one which is simple to create great graffiti using Photoshop!

Video

Our starting image is going to be a simple brick wall, which you can find anywhere, but if you're looking for high quality images, Shutterstock has you covered.

Graffiti Text Effect in Photoshop

Jquery plugin for Source code syntax highlighting in HTML

Introduction

This plugin allows syntax highlighting of source code snippets in an html page. It is very important especially when we want to show our code example. There are a lot of free and useful syntax highlighting scripts around, but they are big, slow and have unnecessary functionality.
I found this little script to highlight HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript syntax. It's very simple and works quickly.