Make a flexible background with css

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Ever want an image to flood the background of your site, and fill the screen at all times? If you are okay with the possible skew of being stretched too tall or too wide, i have a solution for you! Example: http://www.getcollegefunding.org/soon.html     Now the code is super easy. Simply insert a img in your… Read more »

Why not use a grid template

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It seems CSS grid templates are all the rage these days. 32 flavors and they all do the same thing for me. They remind me of tables. at factor1, we always design into a grid. Its a nice way to set balance, patterns and margins. We either use the 16 column (based on a 960… Read more »

Font sizes and retina displays

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Recently working on a site with some big fonts. Im talking 5 or 6 em (100px). But on an iphone4 they looked tiny. Like so   Thats not cool.   Enter the text-size solition. -webkit-text-size-adjust:100%   So in my CSSat the very bottom: @media only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio : 2), only screen and (min-device-pixel-ratio :… Read more »