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Orman Clark’s Vertical Navigation Menu: The CSS3 Version
Next in the Orman Clark's coded PSD series is his awesome looking Vertical Navigation Menu. We'll recreate it with CSS3 and jQuery while using the minimal amount of images possible. The only images we'll be using are for the icons - I'll be creating a sprite using a new tool called SpriteRight, but this is optional. Additionally, I'll be using GradientApp to create my CSS3 gradients, but again this is optional. Step 1: Basic HTML Markup Let's start off by throwing in some basic markup, an empty HTML5 document: And now the markup for our menu; an unordered list within a containing wrapper. Lastly, we create the submenus by placing an unordered list nested within each of our existing list items. Okay, there may seem a lot there but don't let it confuse you. I've also added a class to each list item, just so it'll make styling easier later on. Step 2: Fluid Fonts We'll first make sure our menu displays correctly. Now to explain how the wrapper font size works. Step 3: Main Menu CSS Okay!
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Learning Canvas: Making a Snake Game
Note from the editor: The following is a guest post by Nick Morgan aka Skilldrick. I don't know much about canvas, so it's a pleasure to be able to share an article about a current web technology that is outside of my current range of knowledge. Of all the new elements being added in HTML5, I think canvas is one of the most exciting. In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to make a simple snake game using canvas. Making the canvas and our first rectangle Let's make a <canvas> element, and draw something on it. The first thing to note here is that we don't call drawing methods on the canvas, but on its drawing context. First we set the fill style of the context, which takes the form of a CSS colour, e.g. Making a game loop Now, canvas wouldn't be too much fun if you couldn't make things move. I've started adding in some organisation to the code now. The loop basically does three things. Drawing a snake Now comes the fun bit: drawing the snake. Moving the snake Adding an apple Share On
CSS Decorative Gallery (adding frames and overlays to images using CSS and transparent PNGs/GIFs)
Did you like my previous CSS tutorial on how to create gradient text effects? I’m using the same trick to show you how to decorate your images and photo galleries without editing the source images. The trick is very simple. All you need is an extra <span> tag and apply a background image to create the overlaying effect. It is very easy and flexible — see my demos with over 20 styles, from a simple image icon to a rounded corner to a masked layer (both decorative and complex). View Demo Gallery Download Demo ZIP What Are The Benefits Of This CSS Trick? Basic Concept (see demo) You need to insert an extra <span> tag within the <div> tag, with which we’ll apply a background image to create the overlaying effect. Then in the CSS, the key point you have to remember is: specify the div element to position:relative and the span element to position:absolute. IE PNG Hack To make the transparent PNG image work on IE6, I use this wonderful iepngfix.htc hack. Look and Feel The jQuery Solution (see demo)
Perfect Full Page Background Image
Learn Development at Frontend Masters This post was originally published on August 21, 2009 and is now updated as it has been entirely revised. Both original methods are removed and now replaced by four new methods. The goal here is a background image on a website that covers the entire browser window at all times. Let’s put some specifics on it: Fills entire page with image, no white spaceScales image as neededRetains image proportions (aspect ratio)Image is centered on pageDoes not cause scrollbarsAs cross-browser compatible as possibleIsn’t some fancy shenanigans like Flash Image above credited to this site. Awesome, Easy, Progressive CSS3 Way We can do this purely through CSS thanks to the background-size property now in CSS3. Works in: Safari 3+Chrome Whatever+IE 9+Opera 10+ (Opera 9.5 supported background-size but not the keywords)Firefox 3.6+ (Firefox 4 supports non-vendor prefixed version) View Demo CSS-Only Technique #1 Big thanks, as usual, to Doug Neiner for this alternate version.
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#130: First Moments with Grunt There are all these tasks that we need to do as front end developers. Concatenate and compress our files. #127: Basics of JavaScript Templating A template is a chunk of HTML that you need to inject onto the page. #126: Using Modernizr Should Modernizr be part of every modern web project? #124: A Modern Web Designer’s Workflow This is a presentation I gave at conferences in late 2012 and early 2013. It talks … #121: The Right CMS is a Customized One The perfect CMS to suite the needs of any non-trivial content-oriented website does not come out-of-the-box. #119: Let’s Answer Forum Posts! In this screencast we live answer more forums posts with no planning whatsoever. #117: Let’s Attempt To Do a “Pull Request” I’ve never in my life submitted a “Pull Request” on GitHub. #115: Don’t Overthink It Grids Even if the layout of a site is simple as a main content area on the left and a sidebar on the right, that’s a grid. #113: Creating and Using a Custom Icon Font
HOW TO: Get Started with Less Framework
The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace's hosting solutions here. For the past few years, CSS grid systems have become increasingly popular with web designers. Thanks to efforts like Nathan Smith's 960.gs, designing with a grid is less complicated, and better looking sites can be crafted with ease. One of my favorite CSS grid systems of late is Less Framework. Now in its fourth revision, Less Framework takes the power of a CSS grid system and adds in support for CSS media queries to support multiple design and typography layouts. In May 2010, Ethan Marcotte's "Responsive Web Design" helped spur a movement of building websites designed to fluidly adapt to various platforms and device sizes — think mobile optimized sites and tablet-specific layouts — without the need for an entirely different design or special URL. Knowing the Basics Visit LessFramework.com and resize your browser to see the implementation in action.
