Creating a pure CSS dropdown menu. 17 February, 2011 In redeveloping the Venturelab site we became increasingly aware that there was a lot of content that needed navigating extremely simply and fairly rapidly. We have so much to say and such a lot of content that the navigation of the site needed to be even more dynamic and encompassing than normal. Demo This article has been ported from the now-defunct Venturelab Devblog, where I had originally authored it. Each page features a sub-navigation area, which links to all the other pages within that section of the website. I was looking at the main menu of the site when inspiration struck. The concept What a dropdown menu provides is a hierarchical overview of the subsections contained within the menu item that spawned it.
They are extremely useful in showing what a section of a site contains, and allowing you to access it from anyway else in that site, whether that be the parent page of that subsection, or a page in a different section altogether. The markup The CSS Final word. CSS Image Opacity / Transparency. The Lost Principles of Design. In the instant age that design has evolved into recently many of us often stray away from the basics. If you had a professor in college who taught you the fundamentals of design these may be engrained into your head. For the self-taught, you may have a book on your desk with these very principles. However, the more and more people that flood the internet for design content need to learn the basics before trying to make a stellar gradient in Photoshop.
While this is cool and amazing right now, there will come a point where this style is strayed away from and a new style is made. In history, this lesson has repeated itself with movements like the Bauhaus and Swiss Modernism and will soon come label our current trends as part of history. Balance Arranging parts to achieve a state of equilibrium between forces of influences.
Examples: Symmetrical, Asymmetrical, Radial Contrast Interaction of contradictory elements. Emphasis & Subordination Directional Forces Proportion Scale Repetition & Rhythm. Search.