It's not often I write a web development tutorial, but I came up with this today for styling pagination, and I thought I might share. It uses:

• inline-block
• a splash of negative margins
• a sprinkling of negative word-spacing (although kind of optional, as I'll explain)
• and a couple of IE only rules

I'm sure it's already been done before by someone, but I thought I'd share anyhow.

Let me know your thoughts, and if you find any issues and such ...

A post in which I discuss a widely used "background-image instead of text" technique, given a little tweaking, to work when CSS and/or images are disabled.

Note: If you wish to skip my (possibly unnecessary and yawn-inducing) pre-amble and get straight to my "background-image instead of text" technique, skip to "A solution for now" :)

I am often asked the process by which I take a traditional line drawing, and then add colour, texture and compositional treatment to it.

This post goes through basic scanning and line preparation for a 'print-ready' illustration. It's quite basic stuff but hopefully a few of you may find it useful.