How to design a CSS Sprite Navigation for your website 1/2

Posted on Friday 19th Aug 2011 by James Bavington 2 Comments

Hi and welcome to this week’s web design video blog. Today we’re updating a popular, video blog from the past – How to create a CSS Sprite Navigation Bar. If you already have your sprite graphic prepared, simply click here to head to Part 2, where we write all of the HTML & CSS to complete the tutorial.

In part one today, we start by preparing the Sprite graphic. After checking out some live examples of CSS Sprites in action, we share some simple tips for creating, cropping and optimising your Sprite.

For more information about optimising your Sprite’s file size, we recommend also checking out our other video tutorial on Photoshop’s Save For Web feature.

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2 Responses to How to design a CSS Sprite Navigation for your website 1/2

  1. acams says:
    August 20, 2011 at 11:18 am

    Very useful video blog. Gives lots of important inputs on CSS sprite navigation for a website. Excellent!

  2. Robert says:
    September 3, 2011 at 9:53 am

    Very good video. Great!

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