A Handful Of CSS Trends And How To Use Them There are a handful of CSS and CSS3 trends that are making their way across the web. Find out how to use them on your site… As I make my daily web travels, I’m constantly keeping an eye out for any trends or cool effects that other blogs are taking advantage of. Some of the examples below are taking advantage of CSS3 and may not work in all browsers. Text Selection Color This is kind of a neat one. Just add the following CSS to your stylesheet and you’ll be in business. Gradual Fading Links Here is another great way to add a nice subtle effect to your site. 99% of the time when you hover over any link, it will change right? Add the following CSS to your stylesheet to take advantage of the effect. The 1px Click Give your links a little style with the 1px click effect. Intro Paragraphs Are Easy I wrote about intro paragraphs in an earlier post, but didn’t go into depth on how to use them on your site. Box Shadow with RGBA on Hover Whoa, we’re getting a little deep here! Wrapping Things Up
3D CSS Tester Online CSS Unminifier - Peter Coles You may be aware of js unminifiers or beautifiers (such as jsbeautifier). I found myself wanting something similar for making minified CSS legible, so I built a simple tool using javascript to unminify CSS. It uses several regular expressions (and sometimes a split followed by a join) to generate the clean code and it also lets you specify tab width. <p>*The css unminifier requires javascript to work. Note: the easiest way to look a site’s CSS is to use a tool like firebug on firefox, but sometimes you still might want to view the full source to see any browser-specific hacks that won’t appear in firebug or to just take a peak at how someone may organize his or her code. Update: June 2011—It’s now all the rage to drop the semicolon from the last declaration in a CSS rule (right before the closing brace), so I updated the unminifier to handle this case and put an example in the sample CSS.
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Dive Into HTML5 Stylesheets HTML Email Development Tips & Guide April, 2012 by Tom Elliott Introduction HTML email marketing has been around for a long time. 5 years ago I thought we would have seen a decline in the area, due to social media and other advertising platforms. If anything however, the opposite is true and I see more and more clients wanting to send out engaging email campaigns. In fact, a recent study shows email as the most preferable method of receiving marketing messages Let’s face it, creating HTML emails that are consistent across the majority of email platforms can be a nightmare, with many email programs (Microsoft in particular) having a general disregard of web standards. There are a number of guides, tips and topics on this subject but I’ve pulled together a load of my top tips and bug fixes, largely from a development point of view. So here we go, my top 23 email development tips: General HTML Email Development Tips 1. You can also make full use of “td height”. 2. 3. 4. Be wary of custom line breaks. 5. 6. 7. 8. Text Formatting
Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps: position static relative absolute float 1. position:static The default positioning for all elements is position:static, which means the element is not positioned and occurs where it normally would in the document. Normally you wouldn't specify this unless you needed to override a positioning that had been previously set. 2. position:relative If you specify position:relative, then you can use top or bottom, and left or right to move the element relative to where it would normally occur in the document. Let's move div-1 down 20 pixels, and to the left 40 pixels: Notice the space where div-1 normally would have been if we had not moved it: now it is an empty space. It appears that position:relative is not very useful, but it will perform an important task later in this tutorial. 3. position:absolute When you specify position:absolute, the element is removed from the document and placed exactly where you tell it to go. Let's move div-1a to the top right of the page: What I really want is to position div-1a relative to div-1. Footnotes 10.
50 Useful CSS Snippets Every Designer Should Have - Hongkiat With so many new trends advancing every year it can be difficult keeping up with the industry. Website designers and frontend developers have been deeply ingrained into the newer CSS3 properties, determining the ultimate browser support and quirky hacks. But there are also brilliant CSS2 code snippets which have been unrequited in comparison. For this article I want to present 50 handy CSS2/CSS3 code snippets for any web professional. These are perfect for storing in your development IDE of choice, or even keeping them saved in a small CSS file. Recommended Reading: 20 Useful CSS Tips For Beginners 1. Basic CSS browser resets are some of the most common snippets you’ll find online. 2. This clearfix code has been around the Web for years circulating amongst savvy web developers. 3. 2011 Updated Clearfix From what I can tell there isn’t a major difference in rendering between this newer version and the classic version. 4. Code Source 5. Code Source 6. 7. Code Source 8. Code Source 9. 10. 11.
Tools for Managing Web Projects – Best Of With the ever-growing market of tech startups, Web apps and in-browser tools have become extremely popular among developers, designers, freelancers, and project managers. Over time these tools progressed and we now seen the release of desktop software, mobile apps, and even greater possibilities. For this article I have collected dozens of various online resources from different topics which are useful to creative professionals. The tools are geared towards website projects, but can certainly be applied into almost any technology-based field. You will find apps for e-mail marketing, task management, cloud IDEs, and so much more. Recommended Reading: Useful (Offline) Utensils and Toolkits for Designers Code Management In past releases of different open source projects the codes have been published on blogs and personal websites. Github Github and more specifically the Git version control system features an elegant way of managing project codes. Beanstalk Bitbucket Task Management Trello Do Stripe
Designing Websites for All Screen Resolutions Tutorial on Designing for 800 x 600, 1024 x 768, 1280 x 1024 and higher Designing web sites to fit all resolutions is a very important web design principle. Try out the Entheos site in all resolutions higher than 800 x 600 and you will find that it is designed to fit the page exactly. Therefore, visitors who have higher resolution can see more content in one page which reduces scrolling. Most web sites are designed for only one resolution. From our research we have found that majority of our viewers are on the 1024x768 resolutions and higher. Step 1: Decide on the lowest Screen Resolution Before you start you need to decide on your lowest screen resolution. Step 2: Design Your Web Site On This Resolution Once you decide on your lowest screen resolution you need to design your web site for that resolution This means that all your graphics will be designed for this resolution. Step 3: While converting your design to HTML make sure all your tables are measured in terms of percentages Notes:
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