A nice lightweight CSS package that makes all of your HTML form elements look cleaner and more consistent across all major browsers. Break the cycle of inconsistent form defaults, style forms with impunity!

A Familiar Tale

We’ve all been there. You are nearly done with a beautiful site design, only to arrive at the task we all dread – form styling. Depending on operating system and browser, default form elements can look okay or horribly disfigured.

Styling form elements is evil, so we live with browser oddities. It does not have to be this way. It can be much better …

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Grid (page layout)

Excerpt from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A typographic grid composed of a series of intersecting vertical and horizontal axes.
Typography arranged “flush left” (“ragged right”) along grid.

A typographic grid is a two-dimensional structure made up of a series of intersecting vertical and horizontal axes used to structure content. The grid serves as an armature on which a designer can organize text and images in a rational, easy to absorb manner.

The less common printing term “reference grid,” is an unrelated system with roots in the early days of printing.

Grid use in modern web design

While grid systems have seen significant use in print media, interest from web developers has only recently seen a resurgence. Website design frameworks producing HTML and CSS had existed for a while before newer frameworks popularised the use of grid-based layouts. Weiterlesen →

Here it is: the beautiful online color scheme designer from Petr Stanicek

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