Innovative (and Experimental) CSS Examples and Techniques - Six Revisions CSS doesn’t always have to be serious business. In this article, you’ll see 25 fun, novel, and experimental CSS techniques and demonstrations. Note: some of the techniques and examples discussed here may not validate, cannot be rendered correctly by some browsers, and may not conform with standards-based design and development. Transparent CSS Menu Drop-down This demonstration showcases how to create an advanced CSS drop-down menu with transparency support (needs JavaScript for IE6 PNG transparency support). Return of the image maps In this example, you’ll see a nifty way to create CSS-based image maps with bubble tooltips. CSS 3D puzzle This 3D puzzle was created using only CSS (this must have taken a LONG time to create). CSS scrolling image map This example involves a panoramic picture with "hot spots". CSS Decorative Gallery Demo: CSS Decorative Gallery Web Designer Wall shows us how to create fancier image galleries by using background images on images. Playing Cards with CSS Homer CSS Map Pop
21 Amazing CSS Techniques You Should Know Cascading Style Sheets(CSS) is one of the building blocks of modern web design without which websites would have been ugly just like they were a decade ago. With time, the quality of CSS tutorials out there on the web has increased considerably. Here are 21 amazing CSS Techniques that you might not have thought could be done by CSS. 1. Amazing demonstration of how to create a cross browser image gallery using just CSS. 2. This tutorial demonstrates a crazy way to create an image map using just CSS. 3. Create a lighbox using just CSS with no JavaScript required. 4. Replace the submit buttons with images using CSS, degrades back to submit button if CSS is disabled. 5. Amazing tutorial on how to create an animated navigation menu using just CSS. 6. Create a tree like navigation from nested lists of links. 7. Create eye-catching titles with nice gradient effect using just CSS. 8. 9. Amazing way to create a liquid layout using negative margins 10. 11. Create a nice scalable breadcrumb navigation
Design Meltdown 33+ Online Resources to Learn CSS August 1st, 2009 Posted in CSS An Introduction for Beginners Before going into detail let’s learn about CSS or Cascading Style Sheets. Benefits of CSS There are innumerable advantages of learning CSS for web designers. So in order to spread knowledge on this revolutionary tool of web designing I would like to share some great resources rather say a treasure where anyone can learn CSS or Cascading Style Sheets online.Websites, Blogs and Tutorials 1. This portal can provide all basic elements of CSS. 2. It is one of the largest websites which provide quick and easy learning through tips and tutorials in varied of web design and development technologies including some great Server Scripting languages like PHP, ASP, SQL, etc. 3. This site is known to majority of web designers and developers of the world. 4. Dynamic Drive is one of the great places to obtain free and original Scripts (CSS, DHTML & Javascripts) which one can use in its website. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.
25 Incredibly Useful CSS Tricks You Should Know Here are 25 incredibly useful CSS tricks that will help you design great web interfaces. You might be aware of some or all of these techniques, but this can be your handy resource to nifty CSS tricks that you should know. 1. Change Text Highlight Color You might not have known this before! 2. Firefox usually hides the vertical scrollbar if size of the content is less than the visible window but you can fix that using this simple CSS trick. 3. While most of the internet users prefer to read content online but some of your users might like to print your article. 4. Experienced CSS programmers are usually aware of this but beginners do miss out on this ! 5. This is a nice SEO trick that lets you show a nice fancy image instead of simple boring text to your visitors but search engines will see only the text. 6. Internet Explorer does not understand the min-height property but here’s the CSS trick to accomplish that in IE. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. line-height:30px; 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21.
Unmatched Style | CSS Web Design Inspiration and CSS Gallery CSS Wishlist: New Ideas, Debates and Solutions | CSS Advertisement The future of CSS is arriving fast, and many tools, languages, and solutions have been developed that make CSS a job not just for Web designers but developers, too. In many ways, the job could become more complex and confusing, but in many other ways, the new changes will provide more opportunity and better technology for the future of the Web. CSS will get a number of new changes. Among them are alternative syntaxes, CSS programming concepts and the ability to allow more common design techniques without using images. Also consider our previous articles: Mastering CSS, Part 1: Styling Design ElementsIn this article you’ll find fresh tips and techniques for creating and styling design elements with CSS. 1. The first to ask is “Why?” Well, here’s a better question: “Why not?” And let’s state the obvious: using alternative options like these can save time and be more efficient than using traditional CSS methods, even if they can take some time to learn at first. Of course not.
CSS Import™ | The CSS Gallery 50 Useful Tools and Generators for Easy CSS Development | Listelog The tools have been sorteds into the following categories: Grid and Layout, CSS Optimisers, CSS Menus Tools, CSS Buttons, CSS Rounded Corners, CSS Frames, CSS Sprites, CSS Tables, CSS Typography and CSS Forms. Grid and Layout Tools and Generators This is a fresh take on the CSS grid. It can be used to streamline page templates for content management systems, its mission is to be lightweight. The variable grid system is a quick way to generate an underlying CSS grid for your site. Complete the form, and a PNG image for the grid will be generated, that can be easily used as a background in your PSD or HTML/CSS. Use this generator to design a layout structure, specifying column, margin and gutter sizes, all referencing a core unit (in pixels). With the gridinator you can generate grids for the 960.gs, Golden Grid, 1KB Grid and you can also generate a basic generic grid. This tool will help you generate more flexible versions of Blueprint’s grid.css and compressed.css and grid.png files.
15 Excellent Websites To Learn CSS | WebDesignFan.com “Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (that is, the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML.” – Wikipedia. CSS can be the one of the biggest horror in web design/development but it’s not difficult to learn. The syntax itself is easy and you can learn essentials easily but some of functions and concepts are difficult. In this article you’ll find 15 excellent websites to help you learn or improve CSS. Most of listed websites is design/development related blogs, but some of them focus just on CSS topic. If you are looking for guaranteed 220-701 preparation and pass your certification exam on time. 1. CSS-Tricks is a blog dedicated to the topic of CSS. 2. Three Styles is a blog aimed at Web Developers/ Designers and bringing them the latest trends and tutorials. 3. 4. 5. 6. Nettuts+ provides useful information for web developers. 7.
CSS Orgy » Blog Archive » 12 great online generators 12 great online generators Designing websites is a quite complex job, with many design elements to handle for great results. Hopefuly the web is now full of generators that make your job much easier, here are 12 of them. The website favicon.cc is the perfect place to go generate your website’s browser bar icon. You can either create it from scratch there or upload an image to generate your favicon from it. Generate great patterns for your website’s background. Another simple tool to generate backgrounds with a snap. Again, background pattern generator. At last but not least, a great tool to generate striped background patterns. Generate a color palette based on an image, great for when you lack color inspiration. Another color palette generator, it creates shades based on one base color. Tired of the old straight corners boxes look? Know these little animations to make people wait while the ajax content is loading? Generating CSS menus has never been as easy as with this amazing tool.
11 Useful Online Tools for Better CSS Development | Web Design Ledger Whether you’re a CSS pro or just learning, it’s important to have a good set of tools to speed up and simplify your development. What makes the web so great now, is that many valuable tools can be found online and used inside your browser. Here are 11 online CSS tools that should be a huge help to your CSS development. Grid Designer Grid Designer is an easy to use tool that lets you quickly create complex grid layouts. Drawter Drawter Beta 2 is a tool written in JavaScript and based on jQuery library. YAML Builder The YAML Builder is a tool for visually creating YAML-based CSS layouts. Blueprint Grid CSS Generator This tool will help you generate more flexible versions of Blueprint’s grid.css and compressed.css and grid.png files. Format CSS This tool lets you paste your css into a field and returns a formatted version based on various settings that you specify. CSS Type Set Clean CSS CleanCSS is a powerful CSS optimizer and formatter. YUI CSS Grid Builder CSS Grid Builder is part of Yahoo!’
50 Fresh CSS Techniques, Tutorials and Resources Dec 02 2009 By Paul Andrew Learning CSS and how to use it effectively can be a reasonably easy thing to do for a beginning web developer. In the hands of a seasoned professional, CSS can be stretched and pushed it to its limits where it can seem complicated and yet perfect at the same time. Being able to adapt to new ideas and different techniques, as well as seeking new solutions to old problems is part and parcel of being a web designer. And with the speed at which CSS development is constantly moving, keeping up with new developments can be challenging. In this article, we’ll bring you up to date with the latest in CSS development through a collection of fresh CSS tutorials, techniques, and resources. Menus, Buttons and Forms Create a Button with Hover and Active States using CSS SpritesSome designers neglect the click state (active: property in CSS) in web design, either because they’re unaware of it, underestimate the importance of it, or are just lazy. Web Page Layout Techniques