Styling of images is an oft-overlooked element of page design. The techniques and tips featured below should help you remedy that situation on any of the sites you’ve designed.
Centering images with CSS
Some basic information on centering images using CSS instead of deprecated HTML.
Add a Custom “Trendy” Border Around Blog Images With CSS & JavaScript
A complete rundown of how to create a variety of border styles around the images on your blog using both JavaScript and CSS.
Sexy Music Album Overlays
A great tutorial for adding a bit more style to any image gallery, though it uses an album cover gallery as an example.
Create CSS pin balloons with ease
This is an awesome technique for adding pin balloons or speech bubbles to an image or map that expand on rollover from an anchor point.
Create an Image Rotator with Description (CSS/jQuery)
A great tutorial on how to create an image rotator/gallery using CSS and jQuery. It creates a clean UI for displaying a portfolio or general image gallery.
5 Popular CSS Speech Bubbles
A collection of five different techniques for creating speech bubbles using CSS (some of them using only CSS).
How to Make a Threadless Style T-Shirt Gallery
A tutorial for creating an image gallery similar to the one on the Threadless website, with a caption or overlay on top of an image or thumbnail, among other features.
CSS image replacement for… images? It makes sense for print. (Ask the CSS Guy)
Here’s a method for swapping special print- and screen-optimized images into your pages depending on the stylesheet being used.
Beautiful new CSS: box-shadow (in German)








