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Create cool stitched effects with CSS3
October 2, 2012, 10:53 AM PDT Takeaway: Ryan Boudreaux illustrates how to create a stitched effect using the CSS3 dash border property and with and without background images. The stitched effect has been replicated in numerous creative designs using Photoshop techniques with great effect; in fact, the implementation used by Elegant Themes as the background for the left sidebar in their Memoir WordPress theme, utilizes three segments of the image which are cut for the top, middle, and bottom sections as shown in Figure B (viewed in Chrome v 21.01). But this blog post is about using CSS3 to create a similar cool stitched effect, some incorporated with background texture images and others without. Figure B One of the earliest references I can find for this effect comes from Kit MacAllister’s CSS3 Stitched Elements , using a double border trick with a CSS3 box-shadow and defining a dotted border.
Takeaway: Ryan Boudreaux shares some styling tips that will help rescue your boring horizontal rules. Your typical horizontal rule <hr/> is just a boring line shape that slides across the page, unassuming, thoroughly bland and insignificant, as shown in Figure A below. Horizontal rules are the emphatic break between sections of content, and it has been given a bad reputation, so it’s time we spruce up the element just a bit. In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to add unique styles to your horizontal rules <hr />.
Customize horizontal rules to add some flair
Grunge Fusion: Creating Stunning Textures with Blending Modes and Filters
Back around Christmas time, I released a pack of really bold, gungy textures that I had created specifically for Echo Enduring readers.
Douglas Crockford is Yahoo!'s JavaScript architect and a member of the committee designing future versions of the world's most popular programming language. Starting in 2010 and through 2011, Douglas delivered his acclaimed series of lectures on the history of JavaScript, its features, and its use.
Crockford on JavaScript: A Public Lecture Series at Yahoo!
Getting Started with CouchDB
NoSQL has been one of the most talked about topics over the past couple of months.
A few times a each month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from throughout the history of Vectortuts+. This tutorial by Ian Yates was first published on October 4th 2008. Type is an essential part of Illustrator; whether you’re desktop publishing, designing logos, or using type for image building, you’ll be reaching for the Type Tool.
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