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By abusing the text-shadow property, you can turn any ho-hum bit of text into a magnificent, radiant beacon of allure and awe. But getting your bling-bling on has never been for the cheapskates. Expect to pay a boatload in refresh rates, as your browser buckles under the weight of rendering that glorious halo…

Malo is an ultra small CSS library for building web sites. It is meant to be structural base for small or medium web sites.

Malo derives from it’s bigger brother Emastic CSS Framework…

Ever since I wrote my first lines of code, I have had a strange interest in the functions that generate random numbers. and yes, I know actual random doesn’t exist Every time I just want to fool around with some code, you will find me popping in a random function in somewhere. So when I started playing around with CSS3 Animations the urge to use more random was always lurking around many a corner. I ended up writing a 50 frame CSS3 Animation that just looped through a bunch of random colors…

Here’s a technique I created a while back that I have revisited and tidied up a bit. It results in a layout that stretches both horizontally and vertically to the browser viewport. It includes a vertical navigation bar where button heights also stretch. It works in FF, Safari, Chrome, Opera, and IE 6-8…

Playing around with -moz-radial-gradient this past while, and seeing the amazing job done on the CSS Opera logo by David Desandro, I thought I’d have a go at recreating one of the logos I illustrated within the past year using pure CSS.

The Raindrop logo I created was the prime candidate, as my first thoughts were “hey, three of the corners are basically -moz-border-radius set to 100%!” Done. Next was to figure out how to construct it…

I’m not a big fan of the default text rendering in WebKit, in my opinion, it’s too heavy. There used to be a workaround where setting text-shadow would make the text thinner, but updating to Snow Leopard rendered that useless. Then someone found another hack using -webkit-text-stroke that seemed to work nicely, but it wasn’t usable on text-heavy pages, causing performance issues when scrolling. So you can imagine how happy I was when I saw Faruk Ateş tweeting something about -webkit-font-smoothing. Being the CSS geek I am, I whipped up a demo page you need the latest WebKit Nightly to properly see that page to see what exactly it did…

Build a CSS only image switcher with help from this screencast. There’s no JavaScript used, just plain CSS. The trick is some simple z-index switching on hover and a bit of absolute positioning…

You can flip images with CSS! Possible scenario: having only one graphic for an “arrow”, but flipping it around to point in different directions…

It has been suggested that beautiful and usable websites are created on a foundation of beautiful and usable typography. I’ve even read an article that suggests that the web is actually comprised of 95% typography. I’m not convinced that there is any empirical evidence for this figure, but I think that the point is a good one. And, that makes typography a pretty important element that you will want to look at very carefully…

A common design technique lately is to create a fold effect, where it appears as if a heading is wrapping behind its container. This is generally achieved through the use of tiny images; however, with CSS, we can mimic this effect quite easily…