Yaro Starak: Blog Mastermind Closes Doors
Blog Mastermind, the excellent blog teaching program of expert Yaro Starak, closes doors on December 10!
I’m a big fan of Yaro, together with thousands of others. That started when I read his free Ebook about successful blogging called “Blog Profits Blueprint”.
That ebook contained more valuable blogging information than many others that you had to pay [...]
The Most Powerful Tool To Achieve Success
The modern-day lexicon specifies success as “a certain measure or degree of accomplishment or achievement or as a favorable and desirable result”.
If you want to be successful, you should first make a decision on what you truly want to achieve that can provide such ‘desirable and favorable results’.
To accomplish success, you have to set realistic [...]
FUN with Cascading Style Sheets – CSS Tutorial 9
Now that you’ve learned all the basics of CSS, it’s time for a little bit of fun using that information.
Using CSS to add a shadow to your images.
This is a great technique for making your testimonials stand out.
You can use an extra div tag to do this.
<div align=”center”>
<div style=”width:115px;height:115px; filter:shadow(color:gray);”>
<img src=”http://www.yoursite.com/images/image1.jpg” width=”100″ height=”100″ style=”border:1px solid [...]
External Style Sheets – CSS Tutorial 8
While what we were working on above referred a lot to the style.css, we need to cover one more thing before we move on to some fun stuff.
The code for external style sheets and internal style sheets is the same. The only difference being that the internal style sheets are place in the <head> [...]
Internal Style Sheets Continued – CSS Tutorial 7
We can place as many css defines as we want. You’ve probably seen pages full of these if you’ve every had a look at a .css file before. You open it up, your jaw hits the desk and you quickly close the page not wanting to disturb the monster.
Next time you open one, [...]
More CSS Lay-Out Fun and Backgrounds – CSS Tutorial 5
CSS has immense possibilities, right? But we’re almost there. Let’s continue ….
vertical-align
<p style=”vertical-align:super”>
baseline
Places at the baseline. Common around pictures.
sub
Created subscript, which will place the character slightly lower than the surrounding characters as you would expect to see in H2O which is a common example of subscript.
super
Creates superscript which is common in pricing, $19.99, this could [...]
More CSS Decorations – CSS Tutorial 4
Let’s continue with our cascading style sheets properties and values.
word-spacing
<p style=”word-spacing:20px”>
<p style=”word-spacing:-0.4px”>
This sets the distance between words. I can hear you saying, “Nooooo”, haha, Yes, it is! Choose between normal, which is default or set a length. It is possible to use a negative number here to crunch the words together or overlap.
letter-spacing
<p style=”letter-spacing:10px”>
<p [...]
CSS Properties and Values – CSS Tutorial 3
We’ll be sticking with the <p> (paragraph) tag to keep this simplified for the time being but you can also use style tags with other font tags and not just the paragraph tag. Like your <H1> (heading) tags for instance. We’ll get back to this a little later though. Just wanted to [...]
