Beyond the Walls

Vertically aligning items is a tricky thing to do in CSS. While it should be as simple as setting vertical-align: middle;, that method doesn’t work for block level elements (read: paragraphs). While there are techniques to get that to work, this article is a good introduction to what you CAN do with the vertical align property.

http://css-tricks.com/what-is-vertical-align/

CSS has a property called vertical align. It can be a bit confusing when you first learn about it, so I thought we could go through it’s use a little bit.

For those of you interested in creating backgrounds that are more than just a simple color or gradient, this post by Smashing Magazine offers several examples for inspiration. In my previous post about design galleries, I explained why it’s helpful to look at other’s work for inspiration. Building upon that theme, take a look at how other web designers used different background styles for their site.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/03/31/backgrounds-in-web-design-examples-and-best-practices-2/

The background holds the theme of the website, and there are a vast amount of possibilities when designing a website background. This article goes over the best practices and popular trends of backgrounds in the current stage of innovative Web design.