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Styling your Curbly profile - Part 2,5: Links

By Mikael

I realized I had forgotten to explain how to change how links look when you hover them etc.

Since you're pretty much a CSS-guru after reading part 1 and 2 I'll keep it short.

 

To style the basic looks of links on your profile you use a as the selector. However, in order to style how the link looks when it's visited, active or you're hovering it we need to add pseudo classes to it. This is the pseudo classes we'll look at:

 

a:link 

a:visited (the d » READ MORE

March 19, 2007
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Styling your Curbly profile - Part 2: Images

By Mikael Time for part 2 (of probably 3) in this series of blog posts (sorry for the long wait!) This'll be a short one about incorporating images on your profile page. I recommend that you read part 1 - CSS basics and colors before you read this. I'll use techniques and terminology described there without any explanation in this post.



Let's start the fun!







The use of images can greatly enhance the look and feel of your profile and make it really unique. If » READ MORE
March 10, 2007
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Styling your Curbly profile - Part 1: CSS basics and colors

By Mikael

I'm what you could call a beginner when it comes to home decorating but a more accurate description would be a total and complete newbie. I still want to contribute in some way to this great community, though.

As you probably have seen, Curbly lets you modify the look of your profile. However, a standard template isn't very personal and that link to "advanced control using CSS" sounds damn frightening. When you've gathered enough courage and press » READ MORE

March 04, 2007
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