March 30, 2005
In this double issue, Eric Shepherd streamlines the trusty old CSS dropdown, and Kim Siever teaches an unordered list to sit, roll over, and stop stealing cheese off the kitchen counter.
Hybrid CSS Dropdowns
by Eric Shepherd
Yup. It’s yet another CSS dropdown article — but one that resolves many problems associated with common dropdown methods and degrades beautifully. Hybrid CSS dropdowns allow access to all pages, keep the user aware of where she is within the site, and are clean and light to boot. It’s a tasty little vitamin pill, so quit sighing and try it.
Spruced-Up Site Maps
by Kim Siever
The clean-n-simple site map gets a nice haircut and and a shoe-shine as Kim Siever shows us how to hook custom bullet styles to troublesome nested lists.
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