I used 100 text-shadows to make the graphic below happen. Sure, it’s excessive, ridiculous and just plain silly. But why, at times, can’t the web be all of those things? I’m all for sensible, well-reasoned CSS, but let’s keep things in perspective. We’re not surgeons. We can experiment without causing anyone bodily injury…
Archive for September, 2010
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Fun With CSS Text-Shadow
Posted: 1 year ago in Code
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An Almost Complete Guide to CSS3 Multi-column Layouts
Posted: 1 year ago in Tutorials
One of the defining features of print design is the ubiquity of multi-column layouts. And there are a couple of good reasons why this is the case. First of all, it’s generally easier to read lines of text between 8 and 12 words long. Second, it’s easier to control the amount of negative space in a layout with columns. For a long time, this was the primary advantage of print but CSS3 makes multi-column layouts possible online and without the need for JavaScript…
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Creating Shadows Around Polygons in CSS
Posted: 1 year ago in Tutorials
Almost every polygon can be reduced to a combination of simpler shapes — a reduction that’s the essence of how we make complex shapes with HTML and CSS in the first place. So what we have to do is apply the shadow to both those boxes, and then cut off the overlap with clip…
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ProCSSor : Advanced CSS Prettifier
Posted: 1 year ago in Tools
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CSS3 Menu – Free CSS Menu Maker
Posted: 1 year ago in Tools
Creating a nice looking CSS menu no longer needs all the code and time it use to, thanks to CSS3. Using this FREE CSS3 Menu you can create great looking buttons using just CSS3 in a few clicks…
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CSS3 Card Trick: A Fun CSS3 Experiment
Posted: 1 year ago in Tutorials
This tutorial is based on a simple animated experiment that showcases just one of the amazing things you can create using CSS. I’ve used no images and no scripting; everything’s done using HTML and CSS…
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Selectivizr – CSS3 pseudo-class and attribute selectors for IE 6-8
Posted: 1 year ago in Tools
selectivizr is a JavaScript utility that emulates CSS3 pseudo-classes and attribute selectors in Internet Explorer 6-8. Simply include the script in your pages and selectivizr will do the rest.
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BonBon Buttons – Sweet CSS3 buttons
Posted: 1 year ago in Code
There was a goal: Create CSS buttons that are sexy looking, really flexible, but with the most minimalistic markup as possible. And voila.. here they are, the BonBon Buttons. Named after the French word for "Candy". So, let’s take a tour trough the candy store…
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