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Pure. Codrops. CSS-Only Pinterest Style Columns Layout. If you have seen pinterest, they has a multi-column interface to display the pins and those pins arrange nicely even if they are not of the same height. They do it by using javascript to calculate the height of each pin and then positioning them absolutely. Achieving the same with CSS can be done in two ways: Using Floats: Floats can be used but only if all the pins have same height otherwise there will be gaps left all over.Using CSS3 Columns: This is what I used here. It is explained in detail below. Javascript is still the way to go as this technique has some problems like, lesser cross browser support, seemed to produce weird bugs while testing that were fixed with weird solutions (although simple), hard to maintain the ordering of the items . If there is any ordering, like you want to show recent items where the first item is most recent, and the second most recent item is on the right, it doesn't maintains that.

Also, the ordering changes on resizing so it's not a better option. 25 Free Must Download Design Programs. 25 free must download design programs, the article features a range of different design programs including alternative programs for some of the most popular design programs such as Photoshop, flash and illustrator. A great collection of programs available for free which is perfect while currently suffering from a recession. Image Editing 1) Paint.net Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. 3) Xara Xtreme Xara Xtreme is quite simply the best value and fastest all-in-one graphics package you’ll find. 4) Active Pixels Great free app which is very similar to Photoshop. 5) PaintStar 6) Picasa 3.1 Build 71.43 Picasa automatically finds and organizes all of your pictures including: jpeg, tiff, bmp, psd, and standard camera movie files. 7) Art weaver.

Pixastic - Online JavaScript Photo Editor. Processing.js. Incremental Delaunay Triangulationby Jeonggyu Lee An interactive implementation of incremental Delaunay Triangulation algorithm. My Life Aquaticby David Leibovic, Sunah Suh A shared aquarium Source code Circle of Fifthsby Shelley Marshall Create, transpose, and change a chord progression by using the circle of fifths, and play the progression. 2011 Advent Calendarby Nikolaus Gradwohl An advent calendar built with Processing.js 3D Sketchesby Andor Salga A collection of 3D sketches by Processing.js' 3D developer PJS in CoffeeScriptby David Guttman A tutorial showing how to write Processing.js sketches in CoffeeScript, a language that is compiled into Javascript Flight of the Navigatorby The Mozilla #audio team Fight of the Navigator is a demo showcasing the power of WebGL and Audio API Pew Pewby Nightmare Retro Asteroids clone written in Processing.js Flockingby Harry Brundage The math behind flocking algorithms coaltrace.js byTrevor Bedford Evolutionary simulation.

Twitter Flowby Sandro Paganotti AFL Flagsby P5Pby Fizz. Raphaël—JavaScript Library. The 1Kb CSS Grid, Part 2. Tyler builds websites and web apps for Vyre in London. In Part 1 we covered how to setup a lightweight CSS grid. I promised that this same grid could streamline the way page templates are used in content management.

Well, here we go! One is better than two Every content management system is driven by templates. The beauty of the template is that an entire site can be updated by editing just a single file. But imagine a website that has two distinct layouts: one layout for the homepage, a second layout for all the other pages of the site. Now, two templates are manageable. The solution Fortunately, the tidy rows of our CSS grid can be used to reduce the number of page templates required. First, lets add an ID to the body tag to indicate the current page. Body id="home" body id="subpage" Second, lets add an additional class to each row of our grid that describes the columns within. Now for the important bit. Fresh out of the oven The disclaimer I should leave you with a few words of caution. 15 great HTML5 and CSS3 generators. HTML5 and CSS3 are great languages to start off learning with, and I’ve always thought that one of the best ways to start learning is to just dive in and manipulate the code.

As you could probably tell, this is where generators step in. They are a great way to generate some code, play with it, and learn. Not only that, they are incredibly useful because often times as a developer or designer we find we are doing things over and over again. Well, generators can take off that edge and do those small things for you each time. As an example, I have a text-expander snippet that creates an HTML5 template that I wrote about here. I will say that most of this list is going to focus on CSS3 generators, simply because they are in demand more than HTML5 generators, and we will learn why. CSS3 Generators There is a somewhat negative connotation when it comes to these generators, and I have to say that as a designer and developer there is nothing negative about using one. General Generators CSS3.me.

Demo: CSS drop-shadows without images. Royalty Free Icons & Clipart Stock Images ~ Icons Etc. Best Web Gallery - Flash + CSS Gallery. HTML Font Style Code. In HTML, font style is specified using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Font style refers to whether the font is presented in italics or normal.

You can use the following HTML code to specify font style within your HTML documents. TIP: You can also format your HTML text using the HTML text generator. If you don't want to use the HTML text generator, copy the following code and paste into your HTML document (then change the values to suit) : The above code uses inline styles. Inline styles are when you place the CSS right inside the HTML tag using the style attribute (eg, style="font-style:blue;"). As with any CSS code, you should place it into an embedded style sheet, or even better, an external style sheet where appropriate. More Font Codes You can do much more with fonts.

And here are the different CSS font/text properties available in CSS2: Enjoy this page? Link to this page (copy/paste into your own website or blog): Link to Quackit using one of these banner ads. SELFHTML 8.1.2 (HTML-Dateien selbst erstellen) SELFHTML stellt seit 1995 eine deutschsprachige Dokumentation zu HTML und verwandten Technologien zur Verfügung.

Wir möchten dabei besonders … Anfängern die Grundlagen vermitteln und Kurse in deutscher Sprache anbieten Fortgeschrittenen ein Nachschlagewerk bereitstellen Everyone’s a publisher/wiki/SELFHTML#Everyone.E2.80.99s_a_publisher SELFHTML gehört seit vielen Jahren zu den bekanntesten Dokumentationen über das Erstellen von Web-Seiten. Sie möchte allen Menschen Mut machen, das, was sie zu sagen haben, selbst im Web zu publizieren. Fertige Content Management Systeme, soziale Netzwerke und andere Plattformen bieten dafür ebenfalls Mittel an.

Wollen Sie aber eine individuelle Webseite gestalten, müssen Sie sich mit den grundlegenden Werkzeugen vertraut machen. Für Fragen zum Inhalt und Diskussionen steht das SELFHTML-Forum zur Verfügung. HTML Selector | Caleb Evans. WEB色見本 原色大辞典 - HTML Color Names. Mega Collection Of Cheatsheets for Designers And Developers. Cheatsheets and various quick reference guides are available for almost any type of software and language these days. Unfortunately they’re not always easy to find when you actually need them. This is why I decided to take some time to gather up as many as possible and share them with you here! Hopefully this can be a timesaver for you, along with teaching you a new trick or two. The resources have been divided into various categories to make them easier to find.

Below are more than 100 cheat sheets and reference cards for the following topics: CSS3 Cheat Sheet ↓ CSS2 Visual Cheat Sheet ↓ CSS Cheat Sheet (V2) ↓ Css Property Index ↓ BluePrint CSS ↓ HTML 5 Cheat Sheet ↓ HTML5 Canvas Cheat Sheet ↓ HTML5 Glossary ↓ HTML Character Entities Cheat Sheet ↓ Color Codes Matching Chart HTML (Convert CMYK, RGB Hex) ↓ Javascript JavaScript Cheat Sheet ↓ Javascript DOM ↓ JavaScript Reference Card ↓ jQuery 1.4 API Cheat Sheet ↓ jQuery selectors ↓ jQuery 1.3.2 ↓ jQuery 1.3 ↓ jQuery 1.2 ↓ Mootools 1.2 Cheat Sheet ↓ MySQL.

The Toolbox: a directory of useful single-page sites and apps. CSS3 Click Chart | CSS3 Browser Support and Information. 10 CSS Rules Every Web Designer Should Know. Through experience as web designers we memorise all kinds of code syntax, hacks and snippets. With CSS in particular there is a number of rules and declarations that can really help transform your website designs and open up new possibilities when compared to older techniques. This post rounds up 10 declarations and tips that every web designer should have available in their CSS arsenal. @media screen and (max-width: 960px) { } The @media rule not only allows you to specify styling for your web page when printed. A cool and extremely useful CSS3 property that has now gained thorough browser support is background-size.

One CSS3 property that has really helped transform the web over recent years is @font-face. The clever margin: 0 auto; declaration is one of the first snippets you learn when getting to grips with CSS. For those float clearing situations where overflow: hidden; doesn’t work, the best alternative is the clearfix technique. 15 sites web developers and designers should know. Creating a good website isn't an easy task, but there's a few tools that can definitely make your developer or designer life easier. In this article, I have compiled 15 extremely useful website that any web developer or web designer should have bookmarked. ColorCombos When designing a website, one of the firsts (and most important) steps of the process is to choose a color scheme. Color Combos allow you to browse thousand of different colors combinations for getting inspired for your upcomming design.

Color schemes can be browsed by colors.Visit colorcombos.com LIpsum Who doesn’t know the extremely popular Lorem Ipsum text? What the font? You just saw a logo or website using a particular font and you enjoyed it. ConvertIcon Favicons are a must have for any website, mostly because on modern browsers as such as Firefox, it is displayed along with the site name in tabs. BgPatterns background Patterns is definitely one of the current webdesign trends. HTML Encoder Test Everything Sprite Generator.