Digital Mash

Rob Morris is an Australian graphic designer who thoroughly enjoys speaking about himself in the third person.

His style is heavily influenced from the modernist school of design, employing simple shapes and clean typography.
Rob's work in both print and online media is internationally recognised, appearing in online design galleries, magazines and books worldwide (press section coming soon).
In 2002 Rob founded Digitalmash, working as a private consultant on a range of digitally-based projects for a wide array of clients ranging from Government Departments, to Broadway.com, HiiDef and hip hop artist JAY-Z.
Rob holds a Masters in Internet Communication and currently resides in Japan, with his wonderful partner Krista.

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THE ART OF CSS POSITIONING

CSS Positioning is one thing I used to struggle with, hopefully I can help you understand how positioning works and what it’s affected by, and iron out some of those kinks.

Let’s get one thing straight: positioning is vital in web design. When you have odd issues between browsers where elements vanish, don’t show or are a few pixels out of alignment, it’s normally because you are guilty of using margin and padding for positioning your elements. This is wrong because margin and padding were not designed to do that. (of course, if each browser was compliant with web standards there probably would not be an issue).

Positioning exists to allow exact placement of elements within your markup, simple as that. This tutorial aims to help you understand CSS positioning, which will become one of your most valuable assets in transferring your design to HTML/CSS.

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