Category: Tutorials

How to Build a Simple Button with CSS Image Sprites

The button is one of the most common elements in the world of the web. In modern web design buttons are used not only on forms, but also as visual aids that draw attention to important elements of the page. Let’s take a look at building a simple button using CSS image sprites, starting right […]
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21 Awesome @font-face Embeddable Typefaces

While @font-face may not work in all browsers, it’s still one of the best solutions available today. Of course not all type foundries will let us embed their fonts on our webpages. There are solutions like Typekit which look very promising but today we’ll simply go over the @font-face CSS property and show examples of […]
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How To Use Pure CSS To Style Web Form Dynamically

Pure CSS styling of web form can be achieved by changing the border colour or background colour but how about styling a textfield and textarea with a nice round corner background image? Let’s use a contact us form as an example to demonstrate this tutorial. This simple tutorial will show you how you can style […]
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Pseudo Drop Caps with CSS

They’ve been around for a while now, appearing in magazines, print and now the web. Designers and developers alike have experimented with multiple workarounds from using inline styles to using image replacement but with both of these solutions there are problems. For example, what happens when you recreate your site and decide that you no […]
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The Z-Index CSS Property: A Comprehensive Look

Most CSS properties are quite simple to deal with. Often, applying a CSS property to an element in your markup will have instant results — as soon as you refresh the page, the value set for the property takes effect, and you see the result immediately. Other CSS properties, however, are a little more complex […]
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How to simplify your markup using ID for anchors

CSS Signatures are all the rage these days. If you’re not familiar with a CSS Signature, it’s basically nothing more than an ID on your body tag. The fundamental purpose of the CSS Signature is to allow a user to specify style adjustments to your site in their own user style sheets. Whether or not […]
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CSS: Design Out Of The Box

Are you tired of your typical columned and boxed layout? It is time to learn how to break out of the box and do something creative. In this post, I’ve collected some of the best examples that are designed out of the box. I’ve also provided some quick CSS tips with demo files on how […]
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11 Classic CSS Techniques Made Simple with CSS3

We’ve all had to achieve some effect that required an extra handful of divs or PNGs. We shouldn’t be limited to these old techniques when there’s a new age coming. This new age includes the use of CSS3. In this tutorial, you’ll see eleven different time-consuming effects that can be achieved quite easily with CSS3…
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Style a List with One Pixel

A one-pixel background image can be a pretty versatile thing. With repeat-x it can be a horizontal line, repeat-y makes a vertical line, and repeat makes it a fill color. Just as a little fun proof of concept, we can use that to create a depth-chart looking unordered list…
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3 Easy and Fast CSS Techniques for Faux Image Cropping

This article is a summary of a 3 fast and easy CSS techniques you can use to display only a portion of an image in your content. All techniques explained here actually need only couple of lines of CSS. However, it is not cropping in a real sense of the word, we are not cutting […]
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