A Handful Of CSS Trends And How To Use Them There are a handful of CSS and CSS3 trends that are making their way across the web. Find out how to use them on your site… As I make my daily web travels, I’m constantly keeping an eye out for any trends or cool effects that other blogs are taking advantage of. I finally rounded up a handful of them that really stood out and wanted to share with my readers how to execute the same effects on your site. Some of the examples below are taking advantage of CSS3 and may not work in all browsers. Text Selection Color This is kind of a neat one. Just add the following CSS to your stylesheet and you’ll be in business. Gradual Fading Links Here is another great way to add a nice subtle effect to your site. 99% of the time when you hover over any link, it will change right? Add the following CSS to your stylesheet to take advantage of the effect. The 1px Click Give your links a little style with the 1px click effect. Intro Paragraphs Are Easy Box Shadow with RGBA on Hover Wrapping Things Up
10 Useful CSS3 Tools for Your Next Web Development HTML5 always an important phenomenon within web design community. Another most valuable aspect that web designers should accept is CSS3. CSS3 offers new and exciting improvements on your web design and development. A simple stylesheet for rendering beautiful keyboard-style elements. CSS3 Click Chart This text is divided into paragraphs inside of a single div element, but with CSS3 the text in these paragraphs is divided into columns. CSS3 Button Maker Drag things, pick colors, make a nice class for your buttons… introducing the Button Maker. Transforms Take a look at our fun and productive free tools for web developers. CSS3 Generator This simple CSS generator helps you to understand capabilities of CSS3 introduced by WebKit. CSS3 Gradient Generator Select the format you would like your colors generated in. Web Browser CSS Support The following are units that are used in CSS properties. CSS3 learning tool CSS3 Maker It contains some important CSS3 tools for web development. CSS3 Playground
CSS Transitions 101 Despite people’s expectation of change and movement on the screen, CSS and HTML have few controls that allow you to design interactivity, and those that exist are binary. A link is either one color or another. A text field is either one size or another. A photo is either transparent or opaque. No in-betweens from one state to the next. This has led to most web pages feeling abrupt, with elements shifting and changing ungracefully. Yes, we can use DHTML and leverage the jQuery library for transitions, but this requires a lot of code for something that should be very simple. What we need is a quick and easy way to add simple transitions to the page and in this article you’ll find useful information about CSS transitions and how to use them. A few months back, I stuck my foot in my mouth by suggesting that designers should start using the new CSS 3 techniques that allow them to do some of the basic styling that they’ve been pleading for. Where CSS Transitions Come From Roll-Overs Example #1
20 Really Useful Scripts & Components on CodeCanyon Envato Marketplace has recently launched CodeCanyo. At CodeCanyon, you can purchase and sell scripts and components for a variety of languages and frameworks, currently including JavaScript, PHP, ASP.NET, and Java. Most of the items are at very low price. Here we have collected the following 20 Really Useful Scripts & Components on CodeCanyon. 1. This technique allows you to create unique forms that are guaranteed to impress your clients. 2. ThumbsUp would be a nice addition to your website. 3. This script is a must have for every webdeveloper/webmaster that want to save some time. 4. jSocial With jSocial you can easily place social share buttons under your articles and pages on your website. The information to submit to the social networks like the title/url/description/keywords are automatic retrieved from the html page itself so you don’t need to configure it. 5. jSahre 6. 7. 8. With this script you can make nice and interactive drop down menus. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.
40 Super-Neat JavaScript Plugins The right combination of JavaScript plugins can turn a simple website into a fantastic one - all while requiring minimal work on your behalf. Today, we'll review forty of the most popular plugins available. If we missed some, let us know in the comments! Form Validation jQuery Validate A plugin that allows you to build client-side validation and Ajax forms. JQuery Validate MooTools Validate A MooTools form validation plugin (similar to jQuery Validate). MooTools Validate JSValidate JSValidate is a form validator that utilizes aspects of the Prototype and Scriptaculous library to bring you a simple to execute, non-intrusive JavaScript form validator. JSValidate Form Styling FancyForm - MooTools A MooTools plugin that replaces the browser default checkboxes and radio buttons with custom styles. FancyForm - MooTools PrettyCheckboxes - jQuery Same as FancyForm, but using jQuery library. PrettyCheckboxes - jQuery jQuery Selectbox Plugin jQuery Selectbox Plugin Unobtrusive Slider Control V2 Custom Checkboxes