5 Cool CSS3 Effects You’ll Be Seeing More Of. First – What Is CSS?
If you’re reading this article because you’re intrigued but have no idea what CSS means, let’s me explain quickly. CSS is the coding language used to decorate webpages. It stands for Cascading Style Sheet, and basically just adds style and flair to a site. Websites are certainly readable without their CSS, but they are hideous just like all websites were back in 1995. While HTML files describe the structure and textual content of a page, the CSS makes them display in the way the designer intended, and determine everything from page layout, text size and colours, and now a number of fancy effects with the introduction of CSS3. In the past, achieving the same kind of effects as the ones described in this article would have meant downloading bulky CSS or even bigger graphics.
Rounded Corners The Internet has gradually been getting ’roundier’, but now this is solidified in CSS3. The code for rounded corners is really easy: Text Shadow Here’s the code for some text shadows: CSS-Tricks. Most Practical CSS Cheat Sheet Yet. There’s an abundance of CSS cheat sheets on the web, but most of them gloss over the properties designers use in day-to-day work, preferring instead the kitchen-sink approach of showing all properties.
This cheat sheet was designed with a more practical philosophy, so that designers who need a quick description of a property don’t need to open a browser. Included are the following sections: selectors, the box model, positioning, text and fonts, borders and lists, and a bit of miscellany that comes in handy every once in a while. The cheat sheet comes in landscape and portrait form and is designed to be printed on an A4 (standard) sheet of paper. You can post it on your wall, tape it to your desk, or put it in your pocket for those rare moments when you need to know how the box model works in casual conversation. Horizontal Download PDF (486Kb): Vertical Download PDF (489Kb): Author: Ivan M Ivan M is a graphics pro. CSS Tutorial. Introduction. It is time to take your web designing skills to the next level with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
They are a way to control the look and feel of your HTML documents in an organized and efficient manner. With CSS you will be able to: Add new looks to your old HTML Completely restyle a web site with only a few changes to your CSS code Use the "style" you create on any webpage you wish! A stylesheet can, and should be, completely separate from your HTML documents. When you have mastered CSS and HTML, you will be able to separate your web site's design and formatting (CSS) from the content (HTML). Before you begin the CSS Tutorial we suggest that you check to see you meet the following recommendations: You have used HTML in the past You know the basic HTML tags and vocabulary. If you said no to one of the above, we recommend that you check out our HTML Tutorial before taking on CSS.
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