9 Apps to Help You Create HTML5 Animations Without Coding Apps 9 Apps to Help You Create HTML5 Animations Without Coding This post is written in partnership with PrintRunner, an online printing company that offers label printing services. We all love HTML5 and the stunning animations article shows us its true potential. So, for those of you thinking about creating a professional animation or application using pure HTML5 and CSS3 here are some options. Adobe Edge Even Adobe who owns Flash technologies realized that HTML5 is the way to go in the years to come. Tumult Hype Create one of a kind animations using HTML5 and CSS3. Hippo Studios Is a minimalist animation application that makes technologies like HTML5 and CSS3 work even on old browsers like Internet Explorer 6 where usually these kind of technologies wouldn’t work. Sencha Is a rich CSS3 animation builder with a nice user friendly interface that includes timeline and support for mobile devices. MotionComposer Purple Visual Studio Is an animation tool created for iPad and iPhone devices. Mugeda
CoffeeScript Page Transitions with CSS3 In the last few years, we've seen a lot of single page websites lying around the internet, most of them using JavaScript for some transitions effect. Well, now I'm gonna teach you how you can have your own, but instead I'll be using CSS Transitions and the :target property to do all the magic. View demo Download source In the last few years, we’ve seen a lot of single page websites lying around the internet, most of them using JavaScript for some transitions effect. Well, now I’m gonna teach you how you can have your own, but instead I’ll be using CSS Transitions and the :target property to do all the magic. The Dribbble shots used in the demos are by Matt Kaufenberg. Markup The HTML will contain five main divisions: a header and the four content sections. In the header we will have the main heading and the navigation: Now, the main idea is to use the pseudo-class :target in order to add a transition to the current section. First we will give style to our header and the navigation.
Fire.app: Dead Easy HTML Prototyping Text Rotation | CSS Text Rotation | CSS 3.0 Text Rotation CSS3 Preview Area CSS3.0 Rotation Text Rotation Browser Compatibility Text Rotation Mobile Compatibility BlackBerry 6+ iOS 2.0+ Sponsors Free Responsive HTML Template The designer’s guide to the OSX command prompt The command prompt. Once the lofty domain of that guy you know with the computer science degree. Now more and more the every day domain of the hacker web designer. Perhaps you’ve mastered a little Javascript or PHP, but you are realizing that the cool kids are playing around with stuff that is only accessible to people who are comfortable with the command prompt. Or, perhaps you are just interested in upping your game. Whatever the case, I’m here to help. First things first: launching terminal The command prompt1 application on OSX is called Terminal. Applications → Utilities → Terminal Here’s a screenshot of my Finder window showing the Terminal application and the path that I took to get to it in the status bar at the bottom: Once you get there, double-click the Terminal icon to launch it. Dressing it up a bit: Terminal themes When you first open Terminal on OSX, you’ll find it a stark barren white place. Let’s dress it up a bit so that it feels like home. Terminal → Preferences pwd ls cd ~ cat
My CSS theming setup “Why is your window transparent?” a coworker asked me when she noticed my screen. I told her about how I do my CSS theming, and she pulled another coworker over and made me repeat the explanation. Since that seems like something other people might find handy, here it is. Sass: Syntactically Awesome Sytlesheets I rarely do CSS/front-end theming work, but when I do, I try to make it as fun and easy as back-end development. Browser-based tools I prefer doing the initial tweaking in Google Chrome, because I like the way that the developer tools make it easy to modify the stylesheet. Colors, sizes, and spaces A second monitor is totally awesome and well worth it. Designs rarely specify all the colours, sizes, and spacing needed. To make it easier to match sizes and spaces, I use WinWarden to make my browser window 20% translucent. When I know I’m going to be making a lot of changes, I use AutoHotkey to map a shortcut so that I can refresh the CSS with one keystroke instead of several.
Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc About "Can I use" provides up-to-date browser support tables for support of front-end web technologies on desktop and mobile web browsers. The site was built and is maintained by Alexis Deveria, with occasional updates provided by the web development community. May I use your data in my presentation/article/site, etc? Yes, the support data on this site is free to use under the CC BY 4.0 license. Is there a way to see the support data in colors other than red/green? Yes, you can enable accessible colors from this link or from the option under Settings. Do you have the data available in a raw format? Yes, the raw support data is available on GitHub and is updated regularly. Could you add feature X to the site? Adding features takes quite some time and there are many requests for additions. If you've done the research yourself already, you can also submit a feature on GitHub. Could you cover email clients too so I can see what I can use in HTML emails? I use the following criteria:
Browsers on Spoon The Spoon.net Browser Sandbox makes cross-browser testing and backwards compatibility easy. Just click Run for any browser to launch it instantly. Browsers run within an isolated virtual environment, eliminating the need for installs and allowing legacy browsers such as Internet Explorer 6 to run on Windows 7 and 8. Virtualized browsers behave exactly like installed browsers. Spoon.net supports standard browser components like Java applets and ActiveX controls as well as popular browser plugins like Firebug, IE Developer Toolbar, and CSS and JavaScript debugging consoles. Using the Browser Sandbox at Work?
Autoprefixer: A Postprocessor for Dealing with Vendor Prefixes in the Best Possible Way The following is a guest post by Andrey Sitnik, the creator of the Autoprefixer tool, a "postprocessor" for handling vendor prefixes in CSS. Why use this instead of your preprocessor or another tool? Many reasons. Autoprefixer parses CSS files and adds vendor prefixes to CSS rules using the Can I Use database to determine which prefixes are needed. All you have to do is add it to your asset building tool (Grunt, for instance) and you can totally forget about CSS vendor prefixes. Autoprefixer uses a database with current browser popularity and properties support to apply prefixes for you: The Problem We can, of course, write vendor CSS prefixes by hand, but it can be tedious and error-prone. We can use services like Prefixr and text editor plugins, but it is still exhausting to work with big blocks of repeating code. We can use mixin libraries with preproccesors like Compass for Sass or nib for Stylus. Under the Hood Each version of Autoprefixer contains a copy of latest Can I Use data: Demo .
27 Must-Have Starter Kits For Web Designers Starter kits are great timesavers for web designers and they are particularly useful for those who often create mock-ups for project pitching on daily basis. If you are a designer-cum-programmer think of it as your code snippets So what’s in a starter kit? In today’s article, we attempt to show you some of the best design starter kit we’ve come to know. GUI, Form Elements and Web Components From form elements like checkboxes, input fields, textareas to web design components like buttons, arrows, icons, badges and more. Yahoo’s Design Stencil Kit Probably one of the most complete kit for designers. Web Form Elements With all these tabs, buttons, dropdowns in one single PSD file, it’s sure going to give you a kick start in interface design. Browser Form Elements PSD Browser Form Elements PSD for Mac Firefox 3 and another for Vista IE7. Flex Dark Skin Sleek dark skin interface elements. Peter’s DeivantART ID Design ID cards made easy with this PSD template. Turquoise PSD Vista elements. Cursors
A Website Design & Development Project Checklist / Template - Here’s 10 examples, off the top of my head, of conversations i have actually had when I have had to postpone a website launch and the client has asked why?….. My answers: The changes you sent to the design brief on WednesdayThe 150 images you sent to us yesterday to be included on the siteThe 50 pages of text for the website you sent to us Tuesday…. in the post….. er, on paperThis is the first time your boss has seen it?You never told us all your organisation used IE4Yes, as we mentioned, 1024×768 won’t fit on your bosses smaller screenWhat do you mean your logo is changingSo you’ve actually not got any content ready for sections 3,4,5,6 and 7?Ah….. so you want sections 3,4,5 and 7 removed from the navigation….The guy who controls your domain is leaving early today? The list could go on…… what I’ve learned to do is take some responsibility on to ensure I don’t repeat mistakes I should have learned from. What I have learned is good communication is paramount when developing any website.