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Png - How to save Photoshop file with for web with partial transparency over transparent background. 10 great web tutorials on pixel perfect design. Below you’ll find bet 10 tutorials on pixel perfect design available on the web.

10 great web tutorials on pixel perfect design

Pixel perfect design is something of a lost art, you know. Mostly because it’s an incredibly laborious and long work; it’s a technique that requires dedication, effort and an almost obsessive level of attention to detail and not many designers are cut out for it. It requires a Zen-like personality and meditation-like levels of concentration. Here at Iconshock we decided to become archeologists, historians and paleontologists; adventurers, searching for a long lost past; explorers, looking for ancient documents; collectors, carefully selecting from the rabble raw gems of pure design. In short, we decided to explore the web and get you the best tutorials we could find on this humble craft. Master perfect Design 1 The beauty of the pixel grid. A nice piece piece of non fiction, it is. Modern Block Quote Styles. Let's create some interesting and modern styles for block quotes.

Modern Block Quote Styles

We'll be using different techniques for creating a unique look for six examples. View demo Download source Today we are going to create some fancy block quote styles. Using textures, circles, and pseudo-elements, we can put some life into quotations and testimonials. 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. A Web Designer's Typographic Boilerplate. I like to use a typography.css in my projects; a separate file which houses all the basic structural typographic styles I'll need.

A Web Designer's Typographic Boilerplate

A lot of what's found within it is obvious stuff (heading sizes, for example) but it also contains less obvious things which I don't want to forget. Let's work our way through the checklist.. 8 Tips and Techniques for Modifying Joomla! Templates. Just starting out creating a Joomla!

8 Tips and Techniques for Modifying Joomla! Templates

Template and confused about how to really get a handle on modifying it? Check out these simple tips and tricks which will give you better control when designing your Joomla website. When I first started creating Joomla templates there were a few things I was confused about. How should I modify only one page without affecting others? How to override the com_content article view for avoiding "Articles" in title. I would like to know how I may override the article view to avoid this: I read that this is possible doing the following override for components/com_content/views/article/tmpl/default.php:

How to override the com_content article view for avoiding "Articles" in title

CSS3 Tooltip Maker. This CSS3 Tooltip Maker will generate pure CSS tooltip that is aesthetically enhanced using CSS3.

CSS3 Tooltip Maker

It will still work on browsers that don't support CSS3 ( such as IE ) - it just will not look as pretty and has no animation effect. Quick Preset skin 1 skin 2 Customize and Apply Try it Out Tooltip Pure CSS drivenYou will see the animated sliding of the tooltip using some cool CSS3 properties. Cross Browser Compatibility It will still work in non-CSS3 compatible browsers such as IE8 and below. But in those older browsers the tooltip will not have transitional effect, and it will not show the callout angle. SilkTricky. Minimal Circular 3D Buttons. How to Create HTML Signatures in Gmail with Images and Logos.

This tip describes how you can create rich HTML signatures with images in your outgoing Gmail messages.

How to Create HTML Signatures in Gmail with Images and Logos

You can also have multiple signatures per account. This tip describes how you can create professional looking HTML signatures for your outgoing Gmail messages right inside Gmail itself without requiring any browser extensions or add-ons. Gmail does support email signatures but the problem is that it limits you to plain text – you can’t add graphics (like your company’s logo) to the signature and there’s absolutely no support for HTML so you can’t use different font styles or colors for the signature text. There are workarounds. For instance, you can create an email signature in Outlook or some HTML editor and then copy-paste the whole thing to your Gmail message.

There’s a third-option as well that doesn’t require extensions. Creating Gmail Signatures Step-by-Step Step 1: Go to Gmail Settings – > Labs and enable “Canned Responses” as well as “Inserting Images.” Widgetkit doesn't work in modules. For the Widgetkit Shortcode to work a certain setting for the Joomla Custom HTML module has to activated: Extensions > Module Manager > [CustomHTMLModule] > Options > Prepare Content > Yes Joomla 3.x: Joomla 2.5.x: Otherwise the Shortcode will not be interpreted.

Widgetkit doesn't work in modules

Prototyping With The Grid 960 CSS Framework. Grid 960 is a CSS Framework that enables developers to rapidly prototype designs.

Prototyping With The Grid 960 CSS Framework

They are excellent tools for creating mock ups. Why? Because they do all the heavy lifting allowing you to get faster results. That sounds nice, but how do we do that? There are a lot of articles on the internet blasting or supporting CSS frameworks, but none have any content to help inexperienced readers decide. 1. Grid 960 works by using classes through inheritance. 60px140px220px300px380px460px540px620px700px780px860px940px Each width corresponds to a class name formed like this: grid_X where X is a number from the above list. When creating a row in the grid, make sure all the child grid_X numbers add up to the number of columns you're using. 2.The Mock Up Visualizing the design's grid is easy.

After checking out the visual, you should understand how to create the mockup's grid. 5 Simple and Practical CSS List Styles You Can Copy and Paste. Who doesn’t love a good list?

5 Simple and Practical CSS List Styles You Can Copy and Paste

We use them constantly in our markup for a variety of different situations. Today we’re going to take a look at a few simple and practical examples that you can steal and use in your own work. We start off with a fun animated vertical list, then style up a list with thumbnails and text, another with just images and finally an ordered list where the numbers are styled differently than the rest of the type. How to make your Joomla Home page with no article - Get Joomla Now. So I am working on a site and I do not want am article as Joomla requires for the home page.

Some templates have a feature that will disable this requirement and in that case, you most likely are not reading this post. Many people do not have such a template. So here we go:This is how to have a front page with no article. No cost, No brainer. Its called Blank Component. You can do some very basic Joomla Hack, but its core stuff and that is never the best solution.

Here is the best directions toward having no article as your home page for joomla. Go read up. Longg live Open Source, and thanks Omar for this super bad ass component. Of course, you can always set menu item to Articles> Featured, and simply have no featured articles. Responsive Image Grids Using CSS Tutorial. Today we’re going to build a responsive image grid using CSS. No fancy dancy JavaScript or frameworks needed, just good ‘ole HTML and CSS. Image grids are used all over the web – for pictures, products, profiles… you name it! Why? Because they’re a great solution for displaying rows and columns of visual data. Now that we know why they’re useful, let’s dig in! The HTML Our HTML is a simple unordered list with the class of rig – <ul class=”rig”>. <ul class="rig"> <li> <img src="images/pri_001.jpg" /> <h3>Image Title</h3> <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit... The CSS.

Prototyping With The Grid 960 CSS Framework. How to make your Joomla Home page with no article - Get Joomla Now. How to stop Joomla! editor from cleaning some HTML elements? ● Joomla-Monster ● Joomla Templates Shop. Details Created on Friday, 26 July 2013 13:41 Written by Marcin Merchel.