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Simple Icon Hover Effects with CSS Transitions and Animations Previous Demo Back to the Codrops Article Mobile Desktop Partners Support Security Settings Time Videos List Refresh Images Edit Link Mail Location Archive Chat Bookmarks User Contact Note that the dashed border on a round pseudo-element (border-radius: 50%) does not work in FF 21.0 Mobile Desktop Partners Support Security Settings Support Fav Contract Refresh Settings Time Videos List Refresh Archive Chat Bookmarks User Contact Images Edit Link Mail Location If you enjoyed these effects you might also like: Creative Button Styles Creative Link Effects
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3D Transforms & More CSS3 Goodies Arrive in GSAP JS GSAP's CSSPlugin is now super-charged to handle some slick new CSS3 properties like 3D transforms, boxShadow, textShadow, borderRadius and clip. Plus you don't need to worry about a litany of vendor prefixes. GSAP makes it easy to create next-generation effects today. 3D transforms textShadow boxShadow borderRadius clip -moz- -o- -webkit- -ms- -no-more- These features work in virtually all modern-day browsers (see caniuse.com for details about browser support for each feature). 3D Transforms Browser support: GOOD (Chrome 12, Safari 4, Firefox 10, IE 10, iOS 3.2, Android 3.0) see details GSAP makes it a breeze to create amazing 3D effects. In order to get the most out of these 3D properties, it's important to understand how perspective and transformPerspective work. transformPerspective affects only the element that is being animated, making it look as though it has its own distinct vanishing point in its own 3D space. no transformPerspective No visual distortion at all. Caveats: textShadow clip
Animated Content Tabs with CSS3 About us You think water moves fast? You should see ice. How we work Like you, I used to think the world was this great place where everybody lived by the same standards I did, then some kid with a nail showed me I was living in his world, a world where chaos rules not order, a world where righteousness is not rewarded. Services Do you see any Teletubbies in here? Excellence Portfolio The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Examples Now that we know who you are, I know who I am. Contact You see? Get in touch Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. Fullscreen Overlay Styles & Effects | Demo 12 Previous Demo Back to the Codrops Article Genie effect with SVG animation. If you enjoyed this demo you might also like: Perspective Page View Navigation Animated Border Menus
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Resources for Web Designers - Design Contract Template This is the version of my contract that I offer for you to use as a base for creating your own web contract. Please do NOT copy this and put on your own website, as stated in the terms of use on the previous page. This AGREEMENT is dated and in effect as of the _____________, ______, between _____________ of ________________, hereafter referred to as "Client" and _____________________, hereafter referred to as "Consultant". This agreement is with respect to the re-design of (Company Name's) website, hereinafter referred to as the "Work." Whereas, Consultant is a professional web designer of good standing; Whereas, Client wishes Consultant to create certain Work described more fully herein; and Whereas, Consultant wishes to create such Work; Now, therefore, in consideration of the foregoing premises and the mutual covenants hereinafter set forth and other valuable considerations, the parties hereto agree as follows: The full length of this contract is as follows:
Animated SVG Icons with Snap.svg Using SVGs on websites is becoming more and more easy with great libraries like Snap.svg. Today we want to explore what we can do with it and animate some SVG icons as a practical example. View demo Download source SVG has been one of the most underused technologies when it comes to web development. Despite it’s usefulness and powerful possibilities it’s still a mystery to many and when it comes to integrating it and using animations, many developers don’t know where to start. You’ve surely seen some great examples of animated icons using CSS transitions and animations like the Navicon Transformicons by Bennett Feely which were explained in this excellent collaborative tutorial by Sara Soueidan. Please note that we are working with a modern JavaScript library for manipulating our SVGs. The first thing we do is to create some SVG icons using an SVG editor like Inkscape. For each icon we want a special animation to happen. With the help of Modernizr we can define the fallback in our CSS:
Web design project of the day: Neutral Magazine | Web design Neutral Magazine is built by Plump Digital. “Our creative director laid down the challenge of creating a triangle-based article index, so we needed to work out how we could break out of the standard rectangle-based HTML/CSS,” says technical director James Howard. SVG was the answer. “We used MooTools for animations, Ajax and DOM manipulation,” Howard adds, “combined with Modernizr for detecting browser support for SVG and touch. Finally, Plump used the HTML5 History API to track users’ progress through the site: “Articles are loaded over Ajax so we made use of the History API to update the URL in the browser, allowing deep links to articles be shared or bookmarked.” Liked this? Create a portfolio website using Behance ProSite Great examples of doodle art Brilliant Wordpress tutorial selection Have you seen any inspirational examples of web design recently?
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Animated Checkboxes and Radio Buttons with SVG Previous Demo Back to the Codrops Article How do you collaboratively administrate empowered markets via plug-and-play networks? Where do you proactively envision multimedia based expertise and cross-media growth strategies? Why do you interactively procrastinate high-payoff content without backward-compatible data? How would you dynamically target high-payoff intellectual capital for customized technologies? How can you appropriately empower dynamic leadership skills after business portals? How do you interactively productize premium technologies whereas interdependent quality vectors? Do you rapaciously seize adaptive infomediaries and user-centric intellectual capital and how? Your to do list to uniquely deploy cross-unit benefits with wireless testing procedures: If you enjoyed these effects you might also like: Animated Border Menus Creative Button Styles
10 Must Have Responsive Web Design Tools For Designers 189 Flares Twitter 93 Facebook 42 Google+ 50 StumbleUpon 4 Pin It Share 0 20 189 Flares × With the exponential acceptance of mobile devices and smart phones, web designers are spinning to responsive design as a solution for all effects design and lettering related.Not only does this save time, currency and struggle in the long run, but it also provides mobile users the communication and comfort of use they desire. But if you have been tasked to make a mobile responsive design and are not definite where to initiate, this checklist of must-have responsive web design tools is sure to give you the trigger you want to generate a fluid, responsive design that accommodates approximately every mobile. Simple Grid Simple Grid is an incredible CSS framework that lets you create websites with infinite grid based layouts. Susy Susy by Oddbird, is somewhat similar to the Semantic Grid System. Tiny Fluid Grid Variable Grid System Responsive Web Design Sketch Sheets Style Tiles Gridpak Adobe Edge Reflow
Tools for image optimization As we saw a few weeks ago, the weight of an average web page is now almost 1.5MB (median ~1MB), with > 50% of this being images. It’s a harsh reminder that many of our pages on the web are still quite fat, a big concern for slower mobile data connections. BigQuery calculated medians for a HTTP Archive run thanks to Ilya Grigorik There have been plenty of well documented cases of page weight being heavy, with the Oakley site Brad Frost mentioned in April clocking in at ~ 25MB worth of images alone. Images are a non-trivial problem to solve because they occasionally need to be high-res, but at the same time small enough to not kill your users mobile data cap. The page cost of using images on the web is however not a new problem but we’re at least moving beyond blaming scripts as the main culprit. Tools Where possible, it’s best to try automating image optimization so that it’s a first-class citizen in your build chain. As a general rule run lossy optimizers first, then lossless. Grunt tasks