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Free GIMP Button Brushes

Free GIMP Button Brushes

No, these are nothing like the buttons used to fasten shirts and unfasten women's blouses these are the type used to create wonderfully stylish clickable areas on web pages. In total, there are 21 free Gimp button brushes waiting to be downloaded. They are easy enough to use but I have provided full instructions and tips below for those who need them. Those instructions along with their usage and redistribution notes are also in the the Readme file packaged with the download. The buttons are in greyscale so can be colored any way you like; they are without text to make it easier for you to … [Read more...]

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CSS Controlled Navbar Tab Highlights

From Top to Bottom: Unstyled, Illusionary Gloss, and True Gloss Menu Buttons "Ooh, look at that website with nice sleek and shiny page tabs. I bet it turns all the geeks heads. Why can't I be like that guy?" Recognize those thoughts? Of course you do. We all have feelings of inadequacy at times. Luckily for us regular guys, website sexiness can be learned. With a few easily digested and remembered tips you too will style websites that will make other webmasters sick with envy. Back in October last year I showed you how to use CSS to highlight HTML elements when specific id and class … [Read more...]

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CSS Controlled Page Button Highlighting

Have you ever wanted to make the buttons on your webpages remain highlighted when they are clicked and active? I mean, wouldn't it be great to use CSS to not only make your buttons and tabs change colour when hovered over but to give them a different appearance once they have been clicked? The trick to changing the appearance of a clicked button or link and fixing that appearance for the time its page is active is to set a CSS style for the simultaneous occurrence of separate conditions. Don't worry, it's easy done than said. Imagine we have two webpages and a menu that links to both … [Read more...]

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Stop < pre > Text Overruns

Here's the problem: when you write your own HTML or you use a content management system like Wordpress (using the HTML editor) and you want to showcase HTML code or any other code within a post then you have to do two things: use Character Entities to represent the less than (<), greater than (>), forward-slash (/), back-slash (\) and ampersand (&) characters so that the represented characters are displayed rather than used to designate code tags; and use the <pre> and <code> tags to instruct web browsers to display characters within their opening and closing tags in … [Read more...]

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