Well, this may actually work for the not so new designer…

There are a few things to remember when designing, well, many things, but these are the more important things to remember. Designing shouldn’t just be applied to making sites or writing code. Anything you do artist wise, you are designing. Whether it be your new site, a painting, pixel art, or even writing a poem… You are still designing in some aspect. However, this post is going to be more directed towards the web designer, although, anyone can apply this to their other work as well.

And on the intertubes, 70% of self-proclaimed designers suck at what they do. Most of the time I see something that suck, it turns out it all started with one bad turn that snowballs until it hits a train filled with cute little baby kitty cats. But don’t fret, you’re not hopeless.

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On this site, you may notice that when you use one of the links in the sliding navigation, that pages link stays highlighted.

I am going to teach you how to do this easily using CSS and PHP.

First, you are going to need to know if you can use PHP. This can be tested easily, just make a new file and call it test.php, and paste ONLY this into it:

Then go to that page, and if you see "You can use PHP!", then you are good to go and can read on. If you don't see that, then get a better host and come back later.

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Recently I had around 5 emails, and dozens of PMs asking about how to use the same class name in CSS, but having it effect objects in different ways. I also had a few about how to use more than one class for an item...

So let's kill these questions for good.

I will start with changing how a class looks depending on the element...

Start with an example? Sure...

1. This text is green

2. This text is NOT green

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