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Changing the default text selection colour

Have you ever come across a website with a custom background colour used to style the content when you highlight the text? Well, you can add this little trick to your collection of "know-how" with the simplist piece of css.

Read more // 1 comments 9 May 2011 // Posted by Lee Grant

Make your own pure css3 buttons

Css3 makes it quick and simple to apply various new styles to your css stylesheet to achieve great effects. Css3 isn't fully supported by all browsers so most designer tend to use the new css rules if they can degrade nicely in browsers such as Internet explorer. For this tutorial we'll be using the new rules, css gradient, css text-shadow & css rounded corners.

Read more // 3 comments 26 February 2011 // Posted by Lee Grant

Replace your web images with @font-face

@font-face is an extremely useful css rule which allows you to use non-standard fonts on your website to replace the use of title images and graphics. There are a lot of benefits using @font-face over images and graphics, like reducing page loading times & saving bandwidth.

Read more // 2 comments 25 February 2011 // Posted by Lee Grant

Lee Grant

Web designer & developer
Essex, UK

My name's Lee, I'm 23 years young and a full time web designer/developer living and working in the Essex (England) area.

As you might have guessed I have an interest in the web and how it works. On my blog you'll find things like my latest work, design & coding tips and hints as well as tutorials and freebies. To keep up to date with my work you can follow me on some social design websites below or subscribe to my rss feed.

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