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CSS Layouts: 40+ Tutorials, Tips, Demos and Best Practices. Jul 28 2008 The main idea behind CSS-based layouts is offering more flexibility and enhancing the visual experience of visitors.

CSS Layouts: 40+ Tutorials, Tips, Demos and Best Practices

Some important tips and related key-factors can help to learn basics and keep essential techniques in mind. And this is what this article is all about. Finding the perfect Layout that have Total Flexibility, Equal Height Columns and just works fine. So we’ve decided to take a deep look at articles about CSS-based layouts and the result was a list of 40 tutorials, resources and best practices offering gorgeous and valid CSS-based Layouts. You might be interested to check other CSS related posts: Awesome CSS3 generators to simplify front end development. CSS3 Generator This generator is definitely one of my favorites, as it allow you to generate more than 10 different CSS3 effects, such as border radius, text shadows, transitions, and more.

Awesome CSS3 generators to simplify front end development

Visit css3generator.com CSS Gradient generator CSS gradients are cool, but it’s also a bit tricky to remind all the possibilities. 20 Methods for Upping Your Current Web Design Skills. Design All great designers are constantly improving their skills.

20 Methods for Upping Your Current Web Design Skills

There has never been a successful designer, or anyone of another profession for that matter, that has stopped at a certain point and said, "Good enough". Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to always be learning new things, and to always be improving. In this post we're looking into 20 different ways a web designer can improve their skills at any time. They involve everything from learning new abilities, to changing focus, and to revamping one's mindset when it comes to design. 20 Great Improvement Methods 1.

Check out websites like UI-Patterns.com to explore the best user interface patterns for the web. Adobe Makes Web Site Creation Even Easier. Adobe made a big splash in May by releasing their highly anticipated Creative Suite 6.

Adobe Makes Web Site Creation Even Easier

They also released Creative Cloud, their first foray into cloud-based storage and software. One bit of software exclusive to Creative Cloud customers is Muse, a program that allows graphic designers to build Web sites without knowing any code. It was already easy enough to use, but Adobe is making it even easier. Adobe announced on Monday that Muse has received a substantial upgrade. The update makes it easier to create all the content of a Web site directly inside Muse instead of having to import HTML code from third-party providers.

The major change in the update is support for built-in contact forms. Page Peel Effect Using MooTools. Soh Tanaka release a great script back in May titled Simple Page Peel Effect with jQuery & CSS.

Page Peel Effect Using MooTools

The idea is that you place a "peel" image on the upper-right side of an element which, when hovered, "peels" open and peels close. I thought this was a quality, flexible idea so I've ported the jQuery code to MooTools. The XHTML. Code Snippets. 15 sites web developers and designers should know.

Creating a good website isn't an easy task, but there's a few tools that can definitely make your developer or designer life easier.

15 sites web developers and designers should know

In this article, I have compiled 15 extremely useful website that any web developer or web designer should have bookmarked. ColorCombos When designing a website, one of the firsts (and most important) steps of the process is to choose a color scheme. Color Combos allow you to browse thousand of different colors combinations for getting inspired for your upcomming design. Color schemes can be browsed by colors.Visit colorcombos.com LIpsum Who doesn’t know the extremely popular Lorem Ipsum text?

What the font? Circle Hover Effects with CSS Transitions. From our sponsor: Get started on your Squarespace website with a free trial In today’s tutorial we’ll experiment with hover effects on circles.

Circle Hover Effects with CSS Transitions

Since we have the border radius property, we can create circular shapes and they have been appearing more often as design elements in websites. One use that I especially enjoy seeing is the circular thumbnail which just looks so much more interesting than the usual rectangular. And because the circle is such a special shape, we are going to create some special hover effects for it! Please note: the result of this tutorial will only work as intended in browsers that support the respective CSS properties.

We will omit vendor prefixes in this tutorial. So, let’s get started! The HTML For most of the examples, we’ll be using the following structure: 10 Useful Web Apps for Designers. DesignWoop welcomes this guest post by Tomas Laurinavicius.

10 Useful Web Apps for Designers

Since the iPhone and iPad entered the market you can hear lots of news about apps for these devices. Tons of apps available today and you can find everything you want. But today I would like to share 10 handy web-based apps for designers. To use these apps you don’t need to buy an iPhone or iPad, you can use them without any additional software or device, you just need a web browser. Design Shock. All The Cheat Sheets That A Web Developer Needs. Web development tips: Ten (or a few more) files every Web site needs. Introduction There are a few standard files that every Web site should really have, but that most neglect.

Web development tips: Ten (or a few more) files every Web site needs

Most of these are matters of convention, not of technical requirement, but you are doing your site wrong not to provide them.