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Just some other awesome CSS3 buttons – Red Team Design

Just some other awesome CSS3 buttons – Red Team Design
Whether you're designing a website or a web application, you'll need buttons for it. Now, with CSS3's help, it was never easier to create nice looking buttons. In this article you'll learn how to create some cool CSS3 buttons in just a few steps. View demo While last time we've created simple CSS3 gradient buttons, this time we'll build some nice CSS3 buttons with icons. In order to create the icons, this set of CSS3 buttons uses HTML entities. Minimal markup <a href="" class="button">Button</a> Simple button, with no icon. <a href="" class="button add">Add</a> Note the add class who adds the plus icon. Below you can find the styles used to create the buttons and icons: Why use entities rather than images? Faster loading, because we're talking about text here.Scalable, depending on font size.Styles as color and background are easy to update via CSS. Speed The above buttons do not use any image, automatically there's no extra HTTP image request. Scalability font: bold 1em/2em Arial, Helvetica; Update

Free PSDs & Resources for Web Designers by Orman Clark naholyr.fr Code a Backwards Compatible, One Page Portfolio with HTML5 and CSS3 25th January, 2010 Tom Kenny Tutorials HTML5 is the future of web development but believe it or not you can start using it today. HTML5 is much more considerate to semantics and accessibility as we don’t have to throw meaningless div’s everywhere. It introduces meaningful tags for common elements such as navigations and footers which makes much more sense and are more natural. This is a run through of the basics of HTML5 and CSS3 while still paying attention to older browsers. View Demo | Download Files (.zip) The HTML <! Download the HTML here (Right-click and save as). First thing first, let’s make sure the code validates with W3C’s experimental HTML5 validator. Good news, it does! The HTML5 Goodness As you can see from the code above there are new tags that you may not be familiar with. Header The first one you’ll notice is <header> and it does exactly what it implies. The header element as described in the HTML5 specs. Nav The nav element as described in the HTML5 specs Section Footer The Form

Pimp Your Tables with CSS3 Today I am going to show you how to use some neat CSS3 properties to beautify your tables. With so many new selectors we can address specific table cells and rows in order to create a unique style without adding classes to the markup. We will be applying the -webkit and -moz […] View demoDownload source Today I am going to show you how to use some neat CSS3 properties to beautify your tables. With so many new selectors we can address specific table cells and rows in order to create a unique style without adding classes to the markup. We will be applying the -webkit and -moz gradients for creating a great look without images and learn how to insert content into elements with a specific class. Let’s start with the markup. The Markup The following will be our basic table structure: We have all the elements a table needs, a header, a body and a footer. CSS Table 1 The first table will be in green tones with some gradients for the descriptive cells, the “th” elements. CSS Table 2 CSS Table 3

Top 10 CSS Table Designs - Smashing Coding CSSG Collections: Web Forms I am happy to present a new thing on CSS Globe: CSSG Collections! Approx. once a months I will design, code and give a way a collection of certain web elements for free. First in the series of CSS(G) collections are web forms. I am giving away 5 uniquely designed and coded web form styles. Take a look at the forms | Download CSSG Forms Collection If you like these forms and want more of these collections, please consider bookmarking this page to your favourite social bookmarking service In this collection I used my typical form markup. Here’s my typical markup: Also, as an announcement, I am currently developing a jQuery plugin for text fields and text areas that will handle their behavior and validation. Enjoyed the article?

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