Effects are cool, but come on, it could do more
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We can all agree that CSS3 added some really cool stuff. Linear gradients alone made it worthwhile for me. Add in border-radius, box/text-shadow, transitions (available in FF 4 if you didn’t know yet) and whatever else I’m forgetting to mention, and you have a pretty good upgrade to CSS. Today though, while working on a site, I was frustrated by something that CSS can’t do. I Google’d the hell out of it, and I couldn’t even get the right topic to come up. It made me stop and think that, ya all those cool effects are great, but there are some things I would like it to do beyond that.
Plotting Div Points
I didn’t think of it until today. I work within a custom content management system that feeds default content into specific sections on the site. I want the main content block, I call a specific ‘id’ on a div, and boom, it throws in some default content pertaining to whatever market I am building for. The problem though, is I can’t put a div/image/whatever into that content block, until after the site is ordered. Not a problem if I am building a custom site, because I have the ability to change that content. If I am building a template site though, I don’t have that ability because it has to fit any number of clients. What I needed today, was to wrap text around another div. See the image below and you will see what I mean.
NOTE: I think I am going to build this and sell the template here, so if you are interested, contact me!
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