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50 New CSS Techniques For Your Next Web Design - Smashing Coding Advertisement CSS is almost certainly one of the best developments in web design since the first graphical web browsers were adopted on a wide scale. Where tables created clunky, slow-loading pages, CSS created much more streamlined and usable web pages. Plus, CSS has allowed designers to achieve a number of different styles that used to only be possible with images. One of the best parts of CSS is that it’s so simple once you know the basics. Below are 50 fresh CSS tricks, techniques and tutorials that will help you to improve the quality of your next web design. 1. While CSS is often thought of as merely a styling language, there are ways you can use it to add security to your site. Make your pages load faster by combining and compressing javascript and css files This tutorial shows you how to create a PHP script to compress and combine multiple CSS and/or JavaScript files with gzip when they’re called for by a browser. The Definitive Post on Gzipping Your CSS 2. CSS Centering 3. 4. 5.
55+ Extremely Useful Online Generators for Designers (Build 2010 In 2008 when I launched my personal blog to share my experiences, I decided to call it Balkhis instead of using my full name (Syed Balkhi). As time passed on, I regretted that decision because it created a lot of confusion. People thought that my last name was Balkhis instead of Balkhi. I basically combined my last name with the first letter of my first name.I was @syedbalkhi across all social media platforms, so the brand wasn’t consistent.People didn’t know about my personal blog as much because they didn’t relate Balkhis with me. Well as I focus more on my personal brand in 2015, I made the crucial move of switching domain names. As you noticed with this change, I got a new site design. I didn’t want to spend too much time creating a custom theme, so I used my friend Michael Hyatt’s theme which you too can buy if you like: GetNoticed. I did customize it to give it a bit of personal touch. The main reason why I chose this theme is because of all the amazing functionality it comes with.
TypeSelect - Javascript-based Selectable Typefaces B e a u t i f u l l y r e n d e r e d & s e l e c t a b l e t y p e f a c e s c o n t r o l l e d b y C S S . Y o u s h o u l d n ’ t h a v e t o c o m p r o m i s e t h e d e s i g n o r t h e u s e r ' s e x p e r i e n c e t o h a v e s e l e c t a b l e t e x t . By leveraging typeface.js, jQuery, the canvas, toDataURL, CSS background properties and real overlayed text, Type Select is able to combine custom fonts with your browser's native text selection funcationality. You can now interact with beautifully rendered typefaces just like you do with normal text. Web professionals have been stuck with 9 "web safe" fonts for too many years. Type Select is offered as a free proof-of-concept under the MIT License . Selectable text support for Firefox/Mozilla, Safari, Chrome Support for double-click and triple-click selection Styling on descendant text elements is ignored (first priority in next version) Lovingly created in the oven at ORANGECOAT and offered to the world for enjoyment by all.
20 Methods for Upping Your Current Web Design Skills Design All great designers are constantly improving their skills. There has never been a successful designer, or anyone of another profession for that matter, that has stopped at a certain point and said, "Good enough". Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to always be learning new things, and to always be improving. In this post we're looking into 20 different ways a web designer can improve their skills at any time. 20 Great Improvement Methods 1. Check out websites like UI-Patterns.com to explore the best user interface patterns for the web. User Interface Pattern Websites: 2. Look at the detail in everyday objects, and actively look at detail in other web designs. 3. Many clients love a designer that offers SEO services. 4. Trends are never something a web designer should solely rely on, but learning new trends is a great way to keep up with technology, and to keep you as a designer out of a rut. 5. 6. Image credit: Dey 7. 8. 9. Image credit: Jakob Montrasio 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
Pure CSS speech bubbles – Nicolas Gallagher – Blog & Ephemera Speech bubbles are a popular effect but many tutorials rely on presentational HTML or JavaScript. This tutorial contains various forms of speech bubble effect created with CSS 2.1 and enhanced with CSS3. No images, no JavaScript and it can be applied to your existing semantic HTML. The CSS file used in the demo page is heavily commented so that you can see which lines of code are responsible for each part of the effects. Demo: Pure CSS speech bubbles Support: Firefox 3.5+, Safari 4+, Chrome 4+, Opera 10+, IE8+. Progressive enhancement with pseudo-elements With HTML as simple as <div>Content</div> or <p>Content</p> you can produce speech bubble effects like this: Add a child element, for example, <blockquote><p>Quote</p></blockquote> and you can even produce speech bubble effects like this: I’d encourage you to adapt the examples to your needs and use any other associated elements available to you in your existing HTML document. Example code A note on progressive enhancement
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JavaScript Image Replacement As discussed previously on A List Apart, Fahrner Image Replacement (FIR), a technique developed to allow designers to use image-based typesetting while meeting accessibility requirements, only serves its intended purpose when screen readers misbehave. The premise of FIR is simple: set the text-containing image as the background of an XHTML element and hide the corresponding plain text by nesting it in a span and setting the span’s visibility to hidden, or display to none. Most screen readers, however, are clever enough to realize that text set to visibility: hidden or display:none should not be read. That’s why Peter-Paul Koch came up with the idea to use JavaScript to replace plain text with image-based text (on the css-discuss mailing list), and that’s where the technique explained here comes in. Why JavaScript?#section1 There are already many solutions to the problem, each of them using CSS to hide, move, or stack the images and the text. Enough talk, show us the goods#section2