Icon fonts are great but they only work in a single color. Here’s an ingenious way to create multi-colored scalable graphics using icon fonts…
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Category Archives: Tutorials
There’s more to the CSS rem unit than font sizing
Many web designers and developers are familiar with the CSS rem length unit. This article describes a couple of couple of handy alternate uses of the rem element that you may not have thought of…
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Using Flexbox: Mixing Old and New for the Best Browser Support
Flexbox is going to be pretty big when browser support improves. Syntax has changed over the years and this article explains how to mix the old, new, and in-between syntaxes to get good browser support…
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What No One Told You About Z-Index
Do you understand how z-index really works? It’s not complicated, but there are some things that you need to be aware of…
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Understanding the CSS Clip Property
This tutorial explores the CSS “clip” property and how you can use it to define which part of an element you want to show…
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CSS3 Stamp effect using radial gradients
A detailed code walkthrough that show how to create a fancy postage stamp effect on an image using only CSS…
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Should You Use Inline-Blocks As A Substitute For Floats?
An article that discusses the pros and cons of using inline-blocks versus floats for coding your CSS layouts…
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Accessible custom checkboxes and radio buttons
A detailed CSS tutorial that explains how to implement customised checkboxes and radio buttons that are accessible. The method doesn’t use javascript and it retains keyboard interaction…
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Responsive background images with fixed or fluid aspect ratios
Describes a technique to scale background images in responsive layouts…
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The EMs have it: Proportional Media Queries FTW!
A core tenet of Responsive Web Design (RWD) is fluidity and proportion. Instead of using fixed-width layouts, we enlightened web devs and designers use percentages in our CSS. Font units aren’t pixels or points anymore, they’re percentages…
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