Son of Suckerfish and Flash

So, you’ve implemented the Son of Suckerfish dropdown menu on your cool new site design. And it just so happens that you have an awesome little piece of Flash on the site – something to add to the look in a small way without looking like a cheesy animated GIF. It’s in a nice spot, right below your new dropdown menu. But, hold the phone! You’ve now discovered that the dropdowns fall behind...

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Sticky Footer

So, I’ve been trying for a while to figure out the whole “Holy Grail” (as it’s been called) of layouts: the 3 column layout with header and “sticky footer” that works cross-browser. A List Apart has one, but it relies on having a huge bottom padding, and then reversing that with a huge negative margin. Me, I’m chick who likes to use negative margins as sparingly as possible – meaning only when...

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Disjointed rollovers

So I’m back from my little hiatus (I’m sure you missed me! hahaha), and had a new challenge posed to me. Image swaps are cool for rollover effects, but what about disjointed rollovers? Can they be accomplished with no javascript? I’m here to tell you “hell, yeah!” And I will also show you

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Flickering Stuff in IE

So, a common problem with IE is the nasty, ever evil, Flash of Unstyled Content. Usually seen when trying to implement a CSS-based menu (usually dropdowns), IE will display the ordered list for a brief moment while it tries to load the rest of the page, then the styling for the list will appear and all will be well. Everything functions properly, but it’s just damn annoying to see. IE will also have a similar problem...

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