Pimp Your Tables with CSS3 Today I am going to show you how to use some neat CSS3 properties to beautify your tables. With so many new selectors we can address specific table cells and rows in order to create a unique style without adding classes to the markup. We will be applying the -webkit and -moz […] View demoDownload source Today I am going to show you how to use some neat CSS3 properties to beautify your tables. We will be applying the -webkit and -moz gradients for creating a great look without images and learn how to insert content into elements with a specific class. Let’s start with the markup. The Markup The following will be our basic table structure: We have all the elements a table needs, a header, a body and a footer. CSS Table 1 The first table will be in green tones with some gradients for the descriptive cells, the “th” elements. We want to have some space between the table cells, so we will make the border-collapse separate. The th elements of the head will have the following style: CSS Table 2
CSS3 Gradient Buttons Last week I talked about Cross-Browser CSS Gradient. Today I'm going to show you how to put the CSS gradient feature in a good practical use. Check out my demo to see a set of gradient buttons that I have created with just CSS (no image or Javascript). What Is So Cool About These Buttons? Pure CSS: no image or Javascript is used. Preview The image below shows how the button will display in different browsers. Button States normal state = gradient with border and shadow styles. hover = darker gradient active = gradient is reversed, 1px down, and darker font color as well. General Styles For The Button The following code is the general styles for the .button class. For more details on border-radius, text-shadow, and box-shadow, read my article The Basics of CSS3. Color Gradient Styles The code below is the CSS styling for the orange button. For more details on CSS gradient, read my article Cross-Browser CSS Gradient. How To Use My Buttons?
10 Principles Of Effective Web Design Advertisement Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has become a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. After all, if users can’t use a feature, it might as well not exist. We aren’t going to discuss the implementation details (e.g. where the search box should be placed) as it has already been done in a number of articles; instead we focus on the main principles, heuristics and approaches for effective web design — approaches which, used properly, can lead to more sophisticated design decisions and simplify the process of perceiving presented information. Please notice that you might be interested in the usability-related articles about 10 Usability Nightmares1 and 30 Usability Issues2 we’ve published before,we’ll cover more principles of effective design in our following posts. 1.
Code a Backwards Compatible, One Page Portfolio with HTML5 and CSS3 25th January, 2010 Tom Kenny Tutorials HTML5 is the future of web development but believe it or not you can start using it today. HTML5 is much more considerate to semantics and accessibility as we don’t have to throw meaningless div’s everywhere. This is a run through of the basics of HTML5 and CSS3 while still paying attention to older browsers. View Demo | Download Files (.zip) The HTML <! Download the HTML here (Right-click and save as). First thing first, let’s make sure the code validates with W3C’s experimental HTML5 validator. Good news, it does! The HTML5 Goodness As you can see from the code above there are new tags that you may not be familiar with. Header The first one you’ll notice is <header> and it does exactly what it implies. The header element represents a group of introductory or navigational aids.A header element is intended to usually contain the section’s heading (an h1–h6 element or an hgroup element), but this is not required. Nav Section Footer The Form The CSS3 Goodness
Cool notification messages with CSS3 & jQuery Nowadays, UX is a key factor when it comes about creating/designing a product or system. To keep users happy, developers struggle to create a good experience and a better interactivity. UX is a term used to describe the overall experience and satisfaction a user has when using a product or system. So, a good UX will always make users happy and businesses more successful. Notification messages are an important part of the user experience and you can't afford to omit them. In this article, you'll learn how to create some alert messages with CSS3 and jQuery. View demo Message Types Bellow is a list with common notification messages: InfoErrorWarningSuccess Info Its purpose is to inform user regarding a relevant matter. Error When an operation has failed, the user must be notified. Warning This type of message notify the user of a condition that might cause a problem in the future. Success The success message should be displayed after user successfully performs an action. The HTML The CSS The jQuery
Designing Effective User Interfaces by Suzanne Martin The use of typography, symbols, color, and other static and dynamic graphics are used to convey facts, concepts and emotions. This makes up an information-oriented, systematic graphic design which helps people understand complex information. Successful visual communication through information-oriented, systematic graphic design relies on some key principles of graphic design. Design Considerations There are three factors that should be considered for the design of a successful user interface; development factors, visability factors and acceptance factors. Development factors help by improving visual communication. Visability factors take into account human factors and express a strong visual identity. Included as acceptance factors are an installed base, corporate politics, international markets, and documentation and training. Visible Language Visible language refers to all of the graphical techniques used to communicate the message or context. Organize Consistency Economize
CSSG Collections: Web Forms I am happy to present a new thing on CSS Globe: CSSG Collections! Approx. once a months I will design, code and give a way a collection of certain web elements for free. First in the series of CSS(G) collections are web forms. I am giving away 5 uniquely designed and coded web form styles. Hope you’ll find them useful! Take a look at the forms | Download CSSG Forms Collection If you like these forms and want more of these collections, please consider bookmarking this page to your favourite social bookmarking service In this collection I used my typical form markup. Here’s my typical markup: Also, as an announcement, I am currently developing a jQuery plugin for text fields and text areas that will handle their behavior and validation. Enjoyed the article? CSS Message Boxes for different message types Can you believe this: Few days ago I went to my bank to check my credit score with the Credit Bureau. The bank official typed in my personal data and sent a request. Web application responded by displaying a yellow message box with an exclamation icon saying that data processing is still in progress. He checked several more times, but he didn't notice that at one moment the message changed to "Account available". I don't know what was in the minds of developers and designers who created this application, but it certainly wasn't the user. To prevent this, different message types should be displayed differently. I will show you a remake of CSS message boxes I used on my latest project. Let's first take a quick look at message types. 1. The purpose of information messages is to inform the user about something relevant. Informational messages For example, info message can show some help information regarding current user action or some tips. 2. Success Messages 3. Warning Messages 4. 1. 2. 3.
Button Maker Tabbed Navigation Using CSS Introduction The contents of this tutorial – including the images, HTML, JavaScript and CSS – is licensed under an MIT license and is therefore free for you to use. Attribution is appreciated, but not required. Hello, fellow web designer! My name is Andreas Blixt. This tutorial will teach you how to create low-bandwidth tab navigation on a web page using CSS. Throughout the tutorial, I try to explain most of the things I am showing you, at a somewhat basic level. This tutorial follows a few guidelines of mine, which mostly revolve around the accessibility of the web page. The HTML and CSS should validate against the World Wide Web Consortium's respective validators. If your browser is capable of styling content, you'll notice that the text in some paragraphs stand out more. Now that we've got that out of the way, let's get started! Other languages This article is also available in the following languages: Step 1: The structure Cooking up the HTML The title The table of contents Result: The tabs
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