Alexandre Figueiredo

Links can be displayed in many ways in a CSS-supporting browser. You can style the same link in different ways using CSS pseudo-classes. These are used to add special effects to some selectors. The list of properties you can use is huge. You can use text, font, background, border, padding, margin and a lot more.

Example:

a:link {property:value;} for a unvisited link
a:visited {property:value;} for a visited link
a:hover {property:value;} for a mouse over link
a:active {property:value;} for a selected link

Note: in order to be effective these declarations must came in this specific order. For example, a "a:hover" MUST come after "a:link" and "a:visited" in the CSS definition. You can memorize it easily if you think of LoVe and HAte.

When I style links in my websites, I usually use just two declarations:

a {property:value;}
a:hover {property:value;}

Because I want a:link, a:visited and a:active to look the same and only a:hover to be different from the other three.

Here I was again thinking about finally posting another article on my website. I have been working on some xHTML/CSS tutorials but they are far from over. This is why I decided to make a new tableless CSS template. But this time I made it with three columns for bigger content space and better display.

Deep Blue is a three columns tableless css template that I am giving for free to all my readers. This template has the following "blocks":

• Top menu
• Header (for the logo)
• Main column
• Center column (for links - menus, weblinks, friends websites, etc.)
• Right column (for more content - sponsor ads, etc.)
• Footer

CushyCMS is a fabulous online platform and, in my opinion, one of the most amazing Web 2.0 services available for free. It provides everything you need to create and manage your or your clients websites.

But it does not do it all by itself. You need to have a web server that allows uploads by FTP which is, nowadays, a very easy thing to find - even for free. Two examples of free web hosting platforms that provide FTP accounts are AwardSpace.com and 000webhost.com.

You also need to have a template. If you don't know HTML you can download one of the thousands free available templates in the World Wide Web. Just search Google for "free html templates" or "free css templates".

After this, it is all set for you to configure your CushyCMS dashboard. Look at their brief designer documentation. It is so easy to use that it will take you no more than 10 minutes to figure out how it works.

Here I am, on a Saturday afternoon, and the weather is everything but inviting to go outside. I could watch a movie, but I don't feel like it; I could bake a cake but I don't know how to; I could clean the house but the house is perfect. So what do I decide to do?
Create a tableless CSS one column template to give away in my website.

"Bubbles" is a GPL v2 licensed template that you can use wherever you want to. You can download it, modify it, do whatever you want with it. It is structured using xHTML and styled using CSS and successfully validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional. It's tableless and has only one column where you can find four blocks: a header, a top menu, the content area and a footer.

Yes... I did it again!

It has all begun with Michael Crichton's books. My father had bought 'The Andromeda Strain' and lent it to me after reading it. The book is great! It is one of those wonderful fast paced thrillers whose recently deceased author got us used to.

I liked it so much that I ended up reading some more of his books. 'Timeline', a science fiction novel that tells the story of historians who travel to the Middle Ages to save a friend who had already traveled back, in time, before them, was the second. The third was 'Rising Sun', a book about a murder in the Los Angeles headquarters of Nakamoto, a fictional Japanese corporation. This novel taught me a lot about Japanese culture. Then, 'Sphere' (I believe you have all watched the movie), followed by 'State of Fear', with its interesting theory about global warming, followed the previous three.