In Pictures: Online computer tutorials based on pictures. Free. CSS demonstrations Below is a list of CSS demonstrations that range from the simplest for beginners, to the most complex for advanced users. If you do not find what you are looking for then please contact me with your requirements and I will let you know if it is possible using just CSS. Avatar ParadeSimple image display using :hover. What's on TVAnother method of displaying images using :hover. A photograph galleryA photo gallery using thumbnail images. A photograph gallery - with links » 20-02-2009A photo gallery using thumbnail images amd linking to large images. A photograph gallery - using <object> » 06-06-2009A photo gallery using the object element. A mixed gallery - using <object> » 22-06-2009A mixed gallery using the object element. Photo Gallery Mk.IIA photo gallery with horizontal scrolling. A gallery using :target » 25-11-2011A gallery using :target with no browser window jump and no cycling back though the image using the 'back' button. Sliding photo-galleriesCompressed images that expand on :hover.
53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without - Smashing Magazine CSS is important. And it is being used more and more often. Cascading Style Sheets offer many advantages you don’t have in table-layouts - and first of all a strict separation between layout, or design of the page, and the information, presented on the page. Thus the design of pages can be easily changed, just replacing a css-file with another one. Isn’t it great? CSS is important. Over the last few years web-developers have written many articles about CSS and developed many useful techniques, which can save you a lot of time - of course, if you are able to find them in time. Let’s take a look at 53 CSS-based techniques here at Smashing Mag you should always have ready to hand if you develop web-sites. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5 Powerful Tips And Tricks For Print Style Sheets 5. Generated content was first introduced in the CSS2 specification. 7. 8. 9. 10. Stephen Shaw introduces a technique for perfect horizontal and vertical centering in CSS, at any width or height. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.
CSS Layout - 100% height Min-height The #container element of this page has a min-height of 100%. That way, if the content requires more height than the viewport provides, the height of #content forces #container to become longer as well. Possible columns in #content can then be visualised with a background image on #container; divs are not table cells, and you don't need (or want) the fysical elements to create such a visual effect. If you're not yet convinced; think wobbly lines and gradients instead of straight lines and simple color schemes. Relative positioning Because #container has a relative position, #footer will always remain at its bottom; since the min-height mentioned above does not prevent #container from scaling, this will work even if (or rather especially when) #content forces #container to become longer. Padding-bottom Since it is no longer in the normal flow, padding-bottom of #content now provides the space for the absolute #footer. Back to CSS Examples
GIMPLite Quickies Text and images Copyright (C) 2004 Carol Spears and may not be used without permission of the author. Intention So, you have GIMP installed on your computer, you need to make a quick change to an image for some project, but don't want to learn about computer graphics right now in order to get the image changed. Totally understandable. GIMP is a powerful image manipulator with many options and tools. However, it is quick and somewhat intuitive (after a time) for the small jobs as well. A couple of words about the images used here. All you should need to know to start here is how to find your image and open it. Change the Size of an Image (Scale) Problem: you have a huge image and you want to put it nicely for viewing on a web page. The first thing that you might notice is that GIMP opens the image at a logical size for viewing. The other thing to look at in the titlebar is the mode. Image entry in the menu and the sub menu from the screenshot should reveal itself. Make jpegs Smaller
A List Apart: Articles: Sliding Doors of CSS A rarely discussed advantage of CSS is the ability to layer background images, allowing them to slide over each other to create certain effects. CSS2’s current state requires a separate HTML element for each background image. In many cases, typical markup for common interface components has already provided several elements for our use. Article Continues Below One of those cases is tabbed navigation. What if we could take the exact same markup from the tabs above, and turn them into something like this: With simple styling, we can. Where’s the Innovation? Many of the CSS-based tabs I’ve seen suffer from the same generic features: blocky rectangles of color, maybe an outline, a border disappears for the current tab, a color changes for the hover state. Prior to a more widespread adoption of CSS, we started seeing a lot of innovation in navigation design. Pure text navigation is much easier to maintain and loads more quickly than text-as-image navigation. Tab Creation#creation
Layout Cookbook - An Illustrated Reference of Web and Graphic Design Layouts 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without | CSS Advertisement Many companies try to create a great experience for customers. But few are willing to make the changes required to deliver on that promise. In fact most don’t even realize just how bad their experience can be. This is why we made a new book called “User Experience Revolution,” a practical battle plan for placing the user at the heart of your company. Get the book now! CSS is important. Over the last few years web-developers have written many articles about CSS and developed many useful techniques, which can save you a lot of time – of course, if you are able to find them in time. Let’s take a look at 53 CSS-based techniques here at Smashing Mag you should always have ready to hand if you develop web-sites. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5 Powerful Tips And Tricks For Print Style Sheets7 5. Generated content was first introduced in the CSS2 specification. 7. 8. 9. 10. Stephen Shaw introduces a technique for perfect horizontal and vertical centering in CSS, at any width or height. 11. 12. 13.
Five Looks, One Layout: How to Develop a Library of Web Design Styles at Your Fingertips Earlier in Web Design Week we saw how a simple layout can be mixed and matched with different backgrounds, patterns and photos, today we're going to take that one step further. We're going to completely change the look of a website by changing not just the background, but the overall style of the design. We'll begin with the Grungy Paper Texture Site we created in a past tutorial, then we'll change the design to look minimal, metallic, abstract, and web2! Style 1 - Grungy / Textured (Original) So as you recall from our original tutorial the site design looks like this: It's a grungy looking, textured design based on a simple, solid, underlying layout. Some Characteristics of a Grungy / Paper Look In every style there is plenty of variation, but here are a few hallmarks of a grungy sort of look: Textured Backgrounds Skewed and Off Placement Elements Distressed Typography Hand-Drawn or Collaged Design Elements Some great examples of Grunge design: Good Articles on Grunge Design
CSS bar charts—styling data with CSS3 and progressive enhancement 2 February, 2010 Bar charts in CSS are neither very new, or very difficult. Using some pretty basic styling you can force lists etc into resembling graphs and charts fairly easily. Such charts, in their most basic form, work perfectly well in displaying and presenting the data they represent. View demo Look at the site in IE8, then Firefox, then Safari/Chrome. I have created a demo page which simply represents three items of data expressed as percentages. Progressive enhancement At Venturelab, we decided to use progressive enhancement as a matter of course. Progressive enhancement is, in my opinion, one of the most exciting schools of thought web development has seen in years (though I have only been in the web for three...). The benchmark example is rounded corners; to apply these through old means, for example with images, would have taken a developer a substantial amount of time--time the client is paying for. Isn't this just graceful degradation? Internet Explorer N.B. Firefox The code
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library 30 Must See Web Generator for Lazy Webmasters Here’s a list of 70 hand-picked, easy to use, and free web generators that will save you tons of time and energy. I have grouped these tools into 10 categories: Color Palettes, Robots.txt, Website Screenshots, Favicons, Web Backgrounds, Webpage Elements (buttons, tabs, etc), Memes, Forms, Logos, and Dummy Texts. The best part about these tools is that they are completely free (some need you to signup though). If you are looking ways speed up your work and channel more time and energy to new content ideas and marketing strategies, I believe the list is a must-bookmark. According to my last check on WordPress.com stats, there were more than 42 million blogposts published in May 2014 – and that’s just WordPress.com alone. Category #1: Color Palettes Generator Functions/Details: To generate color palettes based on image input.Allow users to compare, review, and select color combination at ease. Palette Generator Palette Generator – click image to visit online. Pictaculous Kuler Other Alternatives
70 Tutorials Using Photoshop To Design A Website This article features a huge amount of Photoshop web design tutorials, which will teach you simple effects which can be combined together in order to create a great website design. Theses tutorials are perfect for first time Photoshop users because there short and sweet. I hope you enjoy the article and feel free to leave a comment below. 1) Carbon Fiber Layout you’ll learn how to make this sleek layout with a carbon fiber background that would look great as a landing page for a website. 2) Design Studio Layout In this tutorial you will learn how to make a layout for your design studio website. 3) Create a web 2.0 layout in photoshop In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a very fancy “Web 2.0″ website layout in Adobe Photoshop using beginners skills. 4) Watercolored design studio blog layout In this tutorial you will learn how to make a clean and simple watercolor design studio layout for a blog. 5) Corporate Business Layout 6) How to create a worn paper layout 7) Arhitecture layout