HTML5 sparkles when you add style. The following will help you tap the newest features of cascading style sheets(CSS3) to get the most from your HTML5 content.
HTML5 CSS3
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Create a 2020 Calendar Using CSS
Learn how to build an easy calendar for your site using CSS and HTML.
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5 Tools for Creating Amazing HTML5 Banners
There are many tools available for creating banner ads that are based on HTML5, which has become a standard for online advertising. Check out a few of them if you need help upping your ad banner game.
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Beautify Your Site with CSS Styling Buttons
Every web user has encountered buttons on web pages and in forms. Most are fairly unremarkable, but with buttons styled with CSS, you can create beautiful websites.
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Using the CSS Overflow Property
When the content of your element is too large to fit in the block formatting, see what the CSS overflow property can do to help.
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Working with CSS Image Sprites
Learn more about how to improve the performance of your site with CSS image sprites.
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Working with HTML Classes
The class attribute can be used on any HTML element, and the class name can be used by CSS and JavaScript to perform certain loads for elements with the specified class name. Learn how to use HTML classes to efficiently build your web pages.
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CSS Hacks to Enhance Site Loading Speed
The user experience on a website matters as much as the site's content itself. A website's user experience is all about making the navigation and the buyer's journey of a prospective customer/visitor as smooth as possible. Get some important tips for improving your site's performance.
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Styling CSS Links
Octavia Anghel walks you through how to set different properties of a hyperlink using the proper CSS property.
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Explore the Use of CSS Transforms
Explore how to transform a standard HTML element into a spatial transformation module to 2D and 3D. Thus, you can model the standard HTML element by shrinking coordinates, expanding coordinates or moving them.
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Styling Text Using CSS
Learn more about how to use styling text in CSS. Octavia Anghel walks you through the basics of text design so that you will be able to apply the techniques to your own web projects.
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How to Improve Site Navigation with CSS Pagination
Learn how to add pagination, an excellent way to navigate a site with a lot of content. See how parts of a page are referenced by numbers, arrows, forward and back buttons, etc.
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Managing Multi-column Layouts with CSS3
Octavia Anghel walks you through how to use CSS3 to build a neat and easy-to-read, multi-column layout for your web pages.
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Exploring CSS Opacity and Transparency
Cristian Ionescu explores some different ways to get opaque and transparent effects using HTML and CSS.
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Working with CSS Hover Effects
CSS3 has great potential for creating beautiful effects. This article provides several examples of how to take advantage of the power of CSS hover effects.
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7 Amazing New CSS Techniques for 2019
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) offer many new and innovative ways to display the information on your web pages. Cristian Ionescu explores how to employ seven of these new techniques.
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How to Collapse Margins in CSS
The margin collapse effect is not intuitive at first, but it makes it easier to use multiple nested items. See how you can use the methods listed here whenever you need this in your own projects.
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Using CSS Image Effects
CSS filters are powerful tools that developers can employ to create different visual effects. Octavia Anghel walks you through how to use these filters to beautify your site.
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Working with the CSS Image Gallery
Learn more about how the CSS Image Gallery lets you create pure CSS images and slideshows with good image transition and fast, fluent navigation.
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Mastering the CSS Clip-Path Property
Cascading Style Sheets offer a way to create an expressive structure for your site. See how, when the clip-path properties are applied with taste and good judgment, shapes can improve the presentation of your content.
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Working with Anonymous Table Objects
Some languages are missing key elements for properly building tables. See how CSS defines a mechanism for automatically inserting the missing table components as anonymous objects.
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Guide to Using Different CSS for Different Browsers
For any web project, you will need a CSS style sheet. After all, it commands how your website will look and feel. So, how many CSS style sheets do you need to make your project work?
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Modifying CSS Width Attributes with jScript So It Works!
Many people to to dynamically change the width of HTML tags and fail to have it work. Learn the right way!
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10 Essential Media Queries to Include in Your CSS Style Sheets
Explore 10 media queries that can keep your web pages stylish and well organized.
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Getting Started with CSS Counters
Learn how to implement CSS counters, which allow you to adjust the appearance of web page content based on its location in a document.
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Migrating from Old Style Layouts to CSS Grid
Explore the main concepts that make the new CSS Grid feature so rich and important to today's web designers and developers.
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Manipulating CSS Using jQuery
See how you can dynamically change the CSS with jQuery to update the appearance of your Web pages.
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Overlapping Elements with Z-index in CSS
Learn how the proper use of the z-index can provide solutions to appearance and CSS design issues.
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Applying Media Queries to a Style Sheet
Explore how to use media queries to customize style sheets for different devices.
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Creating a Custom Homepage When Using a WordPress Theme
Including a unique static page with a WordPress theme can be done in just a couple of easy steps!
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10 Vital Techniques Overlooked in CSS Web Design
Madan Pariyar offers 10 different tips and tricks that can help you become a better web designer.
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Adding Custom CSS to Your WordPress Template
Learn how to easily add custom CSS to your WordPress site, even if you are using a WordPress template.
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Positioning HTML Elements Using CSS
Learn about CSS positioning types and how to overlap elements and add some text over an image.
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Smart New CSS Features That Make Web Design Easier
See how new and innovative CSS features are having an effect on the world of web design.
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Working with HTML Forms
Learn how to create, implement and style HTML Forms via CSS.
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Creating Drop Caps in HTML and CSS
Learn more about different methods of employing drop caps to make your web pages more visually appealing.
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Working with Filters, Blending, Clipping and Masking in CSS
Learn how to apply filters over an image and how to use the blending, clipping and masking properties in CSS.
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Using Padding, Outlines, Borders and Margins in CSS
Check out this overview to learn more about setting styles for your pages in CSS.
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How to Use a Flexible Box Layout in CSS
Learn how to use the CSS Flexbox Layout module to change the visual appearance of your pages.
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Exploring Values, Units, Fonts and Text Properties in CSS
Get a brief overview of the units of measurement used in Cascading Style Sheets along with fonts and text properties.
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How to Make a Photo Collage Using HTML5 and CSS3
Octavia Anghel shows you how to create a photo collage of your own images using HTML5 and CSS3.
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Ensure Responsiveness for Web GUIs with CSS Grid Layouts
The grid provides a flexible way to move the position of the elements using only CSS without having to modify the HTML code. Learn how you can make major changes to web layouts without touching the HTML markup via the CSS Grid Layout module.
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CSS Specificity and the Cascade
Learn more about how to manipulate the appearance of your web pages via CSS. Specificity and cascade are important to understand to how to craft unique pages that match your vision.
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Enriching the Expressiveness of Web GUIs with CSS3 Transitions
CSS3 Transitions allow you to change properties in CSS values. These transition effects can be applied to the CSS property range, namely background color, font, opacity, height, width, and so on. Cristian Ionescu shows you how to get started.
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Using Media Queries in AMP Pages
AMP pages permit the use of media queries to control how the page layout looks and behaves, much as you would do on a "regular" web page. Rob Gravelle covers how media queries' usage differ in AMP pages.
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CSS3 Transformations and Animations
Learn how to transform a standard HTML element into a spatial transformation module to 2D and 3D with CSS3 transformations.
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Setting Line Spacing with CSS Single Line
Learn more about how to set spacing between lines of text and the best practices for doing so.
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Creating a Hamburger Menu with HTML, CSS and jQuery
Learn how to develop a burger-type menu that consists of a fixed button on the navigation bar that, when clicked, displays or hides the side menu containing a list of links.
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Using Components of the Flex Layout Box Model in CSS3
Get a brief overview of how the Flex Layout Box Model works.
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How to Add Multiple Backgrounds and CSS Gradients
Learn how to add multiple background images and how to create CSS gradients.
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Defining the Grid with CSS
Learn how to define the explicit grid with cascading style sheets and see samples and templates of grids to study.
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Using CSS3 Uppercase and CSS3 Lowercase to Change Text
Learn how to make the most of the CSS3 uppercase and CSS3 lowercase attributes to adjust your text however you like it — all across your site.
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Using the CSS Grid Layout to Create Web Pages
See why grids are one of the most important building blocks of an CSS layout as they offer a lot of control over the look and feel.
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How to Use CSS3 Hex Digits on Your Web Page
The preferred way to set colors on your Web pages is via CSS or CSS3 and hex digits. Learn more about how to color your online world.
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Respond to Media Queries with the matchMedia API
The matchMedia API provides an easy way to react to CSS @media queries using the exact same CSS expressions, Rob Gravelle shows us how to use it to create responsive content.
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How to Animate Your Website with CSS3
Learn how to use some of the most-used CSS3 animation properties to make your website more attractive.
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Responsive Design: 9 Tips for Your WordPress Site
Responsive layouts are one of the most crucial factors that enable companies to offer a fantastic user experience to their customers. Now, you must be thinking, how? Learn more about every aspect of creating a fantastic, responsive WordPress site.
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Advanced HTML and CSS Strategies for Web Projects
Take a look at several advanced HTML and CSS strategies designed to help you create the best results with your Web projects.
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CSS3 Trends for 2017
Built on CSS3, new page layouts have become more responsive and dynamic than ever before. In this article, Rob Gravelle takes a look at emerging CSS3 web design trends for 2017.
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How to Use Multiple Backgrounds with CSS3
Thanks to CSS3, an element may contain multiple background images. In this tutorial, Rob Gravelle shows us how to overlay several images in the page header using several of the updated background-* CSS3 properties.
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A Guide to Using CSS Variables
CSS variables, or CSS custom properties, can be useful for reducing repetition as well as for achieving runtime effects like theme switching. Rob Gravelle shows us how to use CSS custom properties in our web pages.
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Using the CSS3 Calc() Function
CSS3's calc() function offers a means of dynamically positioning elements at run-time. Rob Gravelle shows you a few examples of its many uses.
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Display iFrame Contents without Scrollbars
Content that is presented in an iFrame appears with a vertical scrollbar if the length of the child document exceeds the height of the iFrame and with a horizontal scrollbar if the child document elements won't wrap to the width of the iFrame. Rob Gravelle presents a few ways to display iFrame content without scrollbars.
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Bootstrapping with HTML5, Introduction
There is so much attention on the bootstrap in HTML5 these days. Anyone new to the field might ask… What really is bootstrap? This is a perfectly logical question and so we’re here to explain it to you from the ground up.
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CSS3 Multi-column Layouts
Following on the previous article (Basic HTML: Adding Images), here is more information on the main web formats, which are JPEG, GIF, PNG, and PNG-8, along with examples of each. In addition you will learn more about SEO and some basic placement of images on your web pages with CSS3.
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A Look Into Speech Support in CSS3
In this article, Vipul Patel walks readers through speech support in CSS3.
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15 Responsive Design Tips
In this article we look at 15 responsive design tips, all designed to help speed-up your workflow and to create functional sites which load quickly.
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Using CSS to Make a Visually Consistent Cross-browser HTML5 Progress Bar
Some people have pointed out that the Progress Bar element looks very different across browsers. In today's article, Rob Gravelle explains not only how to give the Progress Bar element a consistent appearance across browsers, but how to make it look awesome!
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A Peek Inside the CSS Text Decoration Specification
In this article, web developers will learn about CSS3 support for text decoration as laid out in the CSS3 specification.
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Understanding the CSS Style Attributes
This article walks web developers through the CSS Style attributes module – which provides insight into the syntax and interpretation of CSS that can be used in style attributes.
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Understanding CSS3 Writing Modes
In this article, Vipul Patel walks the readers through the basics behind the CSS3 specification on writing modes.
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Understanding CSS3 Marquee
In this article, Vipul Patel walks the readers through the basics of CSS3 support for marquees.
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Understanding CSS3 Media Queries
This article gives web developers an overview of CSS3 media queries.
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Understanding CSS Support for Background
In this article, Vipul Patel walks readers through the basics of CSS support for backgrounds, which can be used in web pages.
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Font Management in CSS3
In this article, Vipul Patel walks web developers through the CSS3 font module which discusses how to specify font properties and how fonts are dynamically loaded.
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Managing Content position for your content in HTML5 applications
In this article, we will learn about CSS3 support for positioning and stacking of elements.
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Using CSS3 for transitions in web applications
In this article, Vipul Patel walks through the basics of using CSS3 support for transitions in your web pages.
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More CSS3 Styles
In this article we look at the basics of styling with CSS3 and cover various effects you can create with images and the new border-radius element.
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Managing Color Based Styling in Your Web Apps Powered by CSS3
CCS3 is a powerful tool, extending your options for managing color based styling, this article provides an overview of some of those color options with CSS3.
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Styling with CSS3
In this article we look at CSS3 buttons, gradients and a few programs to make your life easier and speed up your workflow.
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Best Practices with using CSS3 in your HTML5 web pages
In this article, we will cover some common best practices with using CSS3 in your HTML5 pages
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10 WordPress Design Mistakes to Avoid
Take a look at ways to keep your site safe and learn how to build a site that's both functional and attractive.
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What’s new in CSS3?
This article provides web developers an overview of CSS3 and explains how it differs from the prior-gen CSS specifications.
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Cutting Edge Device Targeting with CSS3 Media Queries
Targeting Specific Devices in your Style Sheets set the stage for targeting different mobile devices using CSS3 Media Queries properties such as max-device-width and orientation. In today's follow-up, Rob Gravelle describes how to strategically apply CSS3 Media Queries to give us the very best chance at layout mastery.
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Inside GoMobi 1.9.4
In this article we look at some of the new features of the GoMobi Site Builder, which includes a WYSIWYG editor, improved site navigation, find us feature and more.
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Managing CSS3 Vendor Prefixes with Mixins
Mixins help make your CSS rules less repetetive by allowing you to define reusable code snippets that can be interspersed throughout your stylesheets. At release time, the Mixins-enhanced code is compiled into pure CSS. In today's article, Rob Gravelle explains the basics of Mixins syntax as well as how to use them in your stylesheets.
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CSS3 Tools For Managing Vendor Prefixes
One approach for dealing with CSS3 vendor prefixes is to use tools that generate CSS rules for you from unprefixed CSS3 properties. That allows you, the developer, to blissfully imagine that prefixes never existed, by shielding you from those evil little monsters. In today's article, Rob Gravelle describes several such tools, namely CSS3 Please!, Prefixr, -prefix-free, and CSSPrefixer.
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7 HTML5 Game Design Mistakes to Avoid
HTML5 apps and games are exploding in popularity, with many developers rushing to take advantage of this new medium, but with every medium comes new procedures. In this article you'll learn how to keep your projects on track.
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A DIY Strategy for Dealing with CSS3 Vendor Prefixes
In offering an interim solution while the details of the official CSS3 spec were fully hashed out, each browser vendor defined their own prefixes. Now, we Web developers have to deal with them. Rob Gravelle offers a starting point for working with CSS3 vendor prefixes without going stir crazy in the process.
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10 Strategies to Ensure HTML5 Game Success
Many developers are now making use of HTML5 for game development. As with any technology, you need to make sure you use it correctly. In this article we look at several of the steps you need to take with game development.
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Review: CSS Matic
In this article we have a look at CSS Matic, a web-based tool that allows you to create custom CSS3 gradients, border radius effects, drop shadows and more.
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Referencing CSS3 Properties Using JavaScript
Unlike CSS2, which is a large single specification defining various features, CSS3 is divided into several separate documents called "modules". Each module adds new capabilities or extends features defined in CSS2. In today's article, Rob Gravelle explores the latest and greatest ways to access CSS3 properties and their values.
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Using JavaScript's CSS3 Selectors
The HTML5 selectors API has given Web developers unprecedented access to document elements. Developed by the W3C, the Selectors API provides a way of easily accessing elements in the DOM using a standardized syntax. Rob Gravelle shows how to use JavaScript to reference page elements using the new CSS selectors.
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Review: Sencha Animator for CSS3 Animations
Today we look at Sencha Animator, a program which allows you to create CSS3 animations. These animations are designed to have a similar look and feel as Flash, but with CSS3 and HTML5.
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Review: CSS3 Maker
In this article we look at CSS3 Maker, a web based tool which allows you to quickly create many CSS3 effects. Your choices are: Border Radius, Gradient, CSS Transform, CSS Animation, RGBA, Text Shadow, Box Shadow, Text Rotation and @Font Face.
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7 CSS Design Mistakes to Avoid
In this article we're going to look at CSS design mistakes to avoid when creating your layouts. All of these tips are designed to help you write better code and to make it more effective when working with other people who might have access to your files.
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10 Tips to Create Effective CSS Layouts
In this article we look at ten tips to help you create effective websites, using CSS and CSS3 elements. CSS3 has made a huge difference in web design, offering greater flexibility and options for designers. In order to be effective, designers need to plan out the process in advance. Here, you'll learn about different options you can use.
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Learn CSS3 From A - Z: 3D Transformations
3D transforms allow us web developers to render objects on the page that appear to be 3 dimensional. When the human eye sees a scene, objects in the distance appear smaller than those close by - this is known as perspective. In order to represent 3D imagery in 2D, the trick used is to make parallel lines that go away from the user merge towards a point, known as the vanishing point. This article takes a closer look at how we do that using CSS3 and HTML5 programming.
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Review: CSS Layout Generator
Today we look at CSS Layout Generator, a free, web-based tool that allows you to create CSS layouts, quickly and easily. Recently updated, CSS Layout Generator offers fluid based layouts, rounded cornes and HTML5. When you're satisfied with your settings, click on the Create button. This will give you a preview fo the finished layout as well as a ZIP file with all the necessary components.