9 Top CSS Essential Skills That Every Web designer Should Learn

This post is dedicated to elementary & intermediate CSS learners. If you’re going to learn CSS from scratch, you’ve probably seen a lot of techniques, tricks & tutorials so far. In this post I’ve written my own approach to the most essential CSS skills that every web designer should learn. I really love the articles below and liked to share them with you. Hope you enjoy it!

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Centering a Body Background Image that Behaves

Script & Style recently ran into some window size vs. page element issues. Read up on how Chris Coyier remedied the problem.

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Add Custom Values To Your WordPress RSS Feed

As most of you probably know, Script & Style was created by myself, David Walsh, and CSS-Tricks scribe Chris Coyier. We were both looking to create widgets for our website that would provide not only a link to the article submission page on Script & Style but also a direct link to the full article on the author’s domain. Since we were reading in the RSS feed to grab articles and links, we needed to add a custom XML key/value to the RSS feed so that we could retrieve the direct link URL. Here’s how we did it.

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Automatically Generate a Photo Gallery from a Directory of Images

A photo gallery that builds itself dynamically from a directory of images. So when you want to add new photos, you simply drop the new photo and thumbnail in the directory and you are done! Removing photos just means removing the photos from the image directory.

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