Stuff and Nonsense

Malarkey is Andy Clarke, a UK based designer, author and speaker who has a passion for design, CSS and web accessibility.

Andy has been working on the web for almost ten years. He is a visual web designer and author and he founded Stuff and Nonsense in 1998. Andy regularly writes about creating beautiful, accessible web sites and he speaks at events worldwide. Andy is the author of Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design, published by New Riders in 2006.

Z's not dead baby, Z's not dead

My small contribution to 24ways, Z's not dead baby, Z's not dead

My small contribution to 24ways, Z's not dead baby, Z's not dead blinks sleepily into the daylight today.

The use of positioning together with z-index has been a little out of favour recently. But in combination with alpha transparency for PNG images the stacking of elements with z-index is going to be big and used to create designs which 'break out of the box'.

Comment over at 24ways if you please. Ho, ho, ho!

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