Degrafa is a fantastic tool and has become for the past few months a core component of all my developments at Tailgate Technologies. Still, some very powerful tools among Degrafa Framework seem to be a bit underused by most users (at least most bloggers). I’m thinking here of Advanced CSS with CSSSkin class. Or at least, there rather is a relative lack of examples and documentations on how to use it. You can still find on Degrafa’s website Ben Stuki’s example along with Juan Sanchez’ one, but when you try and watch the screencast tutorials you unfortunately end up hitting dead ends. One thing in particular took me a significant while to figure out: how to set elaborate gradients (for a background color for example), so I thought that sharing my discoveries (and improvements in a further post) might be useful to some of you.

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