I’m unavailable, can’t be reached, no emails, no instant messages, no voice mail, i’m 404…

Sorry guys for the slow week, but I just had an addition to the family. My wife and I just had a baby boy! His name is Landon Sean Angeletti and he’s fantastic. I’ll be back in action next week. I’ll cya then.

Mark

• The Awesomeness of jQuery! – I need to try jQuery sometime, but I like YUI so much.
• Why Search Engine Optimization Makes the Web a Better Pace – ok…
• Firefox 3: Native Ajax File Upload – Does it matter if IE doesn’t support it?
• Freestyle Biker – This guy is sick.
• Soccer’s Influence – That’s Kobe and Nash playing the beautiful game…
• CSS Decorative Gallery – Some great work here…

I’d like to share a couple of simple tips for adding graphical borders or side shadows to your CSS layouts. This article is mainly aimed at beginners but there are some useful tips for everyone if you’ll bear with the simpler stuff first.

CSS Full Length Graphical Borders on Fluid Layout

It’s quite easy to use graphical side borders on fixed width elements as you can simply repeat an appropriate sized image down the y-axis of the container and draw both edges at the same time. However, it is often not well understood how to achieve this effect with an element that has a fluid width especially in a 100% high environment.

We will first learn how to apply an image to both sides of a normal content height (but fluid width) container and then later on explore the possibilities of using this for a 100% (viewport high) container.

(more…)