3 Ways to Add Depth to Any Website with CSS. In design, the small and subtle details can have the biggest impact. Smoother lines, refined textures, and the right shape and size bring a lot to the hardware and software we know and love here at ZURB. We think the same thing should apply to websites, where finer details can take your designs from good to great. One technique we use regularly is adding depth to a design to give it that extra flair. Here are three ways to add visual depth to any website—with nothing but CSS. Establishing a Testing Ground To help illustrate the effectiveness of these CSS tweaks, we'll modify a snippet of code throughout the post as we discuss each tip. Section Heading Consectetuer lorem lorem humanitatis vero consequat. Now that we've established what we'll be adding depth to, we can move on to the tips! Tip #1: Raising the Hr For this effect to work, we start off with our reset hr.
To add depth to our hr, we simply add another border into the mix. Here's the real kicker. Tip #3: Fall into the Well.
Cufón - fonts for the people. ASCII Generator. #25: Designing for Wordpress: Part One. WordPress is a hugely popular CMS for blogging. The blog section of CSS-Tricks is run on WordPress and I am very happy with it. By popular request, we are going to walk through designing for WordPress. In part one, we will be downloading and installing WordPress. Then we will install the "Starkers" theme by Elliot Jay Stocks to start with a completely fresh slate for our new design. No sense starting with the default theme, it's more trouble than it's worth! In part two, we will go over the theory behind designing for WordPress and how it's much like "working modularly" and actually get started designing. In part three, we will finish up the design and start in with some more advanced functionality.
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Two articles have provided some important info to help front-end developers, content strategists, and SEO experts structure their content in a more accessible, semantic, and SEO-friendly manner. SitePoint and 456 Berea Street The two articles in question are: Here are two pertinent quotes from those articles: - Kevin Yank, SitePoint - Roger Johansson, 456 Berea Street How Does WordPress Screw it Up?
WordPress, by default, structures the headings as follows: You Can Correct It, But There’s a Drawback. Green Website Showcase. Green Website Showcase Color Wheel Pro says Green is the color of nature. It symbolizes growth, harmony, freshness, and fertility. Green has strong emotional correspondence with safety. Dark green is also commonly associated with money. Green has great healing power. It is the most restful color for the human eye; it can improve vision.
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In instances like this, the zoom tool can be your best friend. Step 2 Lets jump right in and open a new Photoshop document. For the moment, lets ignore the wooden background texture and set a solid color for the background of the navigation. Step 3 Create a new layer by clicking on the Create New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers palette.
(*note: If the Layers palette isn’t visible, bring it up by choosing Window>Layers from the main menu.) Step 4 Now lets create a selection by pressing the M key to switch to the Rectangular Marquee tool. Step 5 Step 6 Step 7. Form Elements: 40 CSS/JS Styling and Functionality Techniques - Aug 17 2008 Designing effective web forms isn’t easy, as we need to figure out more practical styling and functionality techniques to provide a great user experience. Recently there have been a number of noteworthy techniques such as styling different form fields, live validation, Context highlighting, trading options from field to another, slider controls and more – using CSS and different Javascript libraries. Below we present findings of search to more than 40 tutorials and demos to showcase the capabilities and robustness of CSS and Javascript.
You might be interested to check other CSS related posts: 1-Styling dropdown select boxes- To style a dropdown select box is heavy work. This is an experiement on how you can style select box options items. 2-<select> Something New, Part 1-With a little DOM scripting and some creative CSS, you too can make your <select>s beautiful… and you won’t have to sacrifice accessibility, usability or graceful degradation. 38-Select box manipulation Homepage.