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Moving into 2011
With only a few minutes left of the year 2010, I can look back at a dramatic year for both the site and for me personally. As usual, I will not write any long summary of the year that has passed. But at this time of the year I always sit down and think about…
Variant Duo used for phpbb forum
Today I got an interesting link that shows a heavily modified version of Variant Duo template used on a Chess site where it also handles some design parts in a phpBB forum. Take a look, it is an interesting example of how a CSS template can be modified into something that looks completely different from…
Validating your code using Unicorn
I am a big fan of the W3C web standards, for several reasons which I will write more about in future posts. All free website templates on andreasviklund.com are written using valid XHTML and CSS, and I recommend everyone to do their best to keep their code valid. One of the easiest ways to find…
How to add text shadows using CSS
One of many new possibilities that comes with CSS3 is the ability to add shadows on texts. It is an easy way of making a regular design a bit prettier, but it can also be useful to make some text elements easier to read. Browser support for text shadows is still not perfect as Internet…
Variant Multi, two alternate versions
The Variant Multi template got very positive feedback, but I got one e-mail about the fact that the narrow 600px layout wasn’t working very well on iOS devices – it appeared very narrow since the Safari Mobile viewport was not adjusted in the HTML. In order to provide a better option, I customized the template…