Category: Tutorials

Create letterpress type using only CSS

The letterpress effect is one of the 2009 trends and is present in a lot of websites. It simply works because it adds a touch of “tactile” to the overall design and at the same time looks good with gradients, shadows, etc. Let’s see a quick way to add this effect to our sites using […]
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Degradable PNG Transparency for IE6

All (sane) web developers are eagerly awaiting the day Internet Explorer 6 dies. While there are a number of opinions in the community on when we should drop support and how we should encourage users to upgrade, the (sad) fact is that (as of this writing) roughly 25% of the world is still using it. […]
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Pure CSS Timeline

I wanted to build a CSS timeline for the “About” section of my site while using some clean and simple markup. I wanted to avoid using images as much as possible, so I spent a few minutes prototyping some options and came up with a solution using unordered lists. The result is a simple and […]
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Styling the Button Element with CSS Sliding Doors

For those not familiar, form buttons are notoriously difficult to customize because they render differently across browsers and platforms. A few methods for styling buttons are commonly used to make them appear dimensional, uniform, and consistent across browsers, however each has limitations. Here’s a solution using image sprites and a single block of CSS. It […]
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Mobilizing Your Site Using CSS

With a second style sheet and minor changes to a page’s HTML, many online stores can offer an excellent mobile shopping experience without creating a second web page or registering a mobile specific domain…
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CSS Gradient Text Effect

Do you want to create fancy headings without rendering each heading with Photoshop? Here is a simple CSS trick to show you how to create gradient text effect with a PNG image (pure CSS, no Javascript or Flash). All you need is an empty tag in the heading and apply the background image overlay using […]
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A Tutorial All About CSS Floats

In web design, page elements with the CSS float property applied to them are just like the images in the print layout where the text flows around them. Floated elements remain a part of the flow of the web page. This is distinctly different than page elements that use absolute positioning. Absolutely positioned page elements […]
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Absolute Positioning Inside Relative Positioning

A page element with relative positioning gives you the control to absolutely position children elements inside of it. To some, this is obvious. To others, this may be one of those CSS “Ah-ha!” moments…
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HTML 5 and CSS 3: The Techniques You’ll Soon Be Using

In this tutorial, we are going to build a blog page using next-generation techniques from HTML 5 and CSS 3. The tutorial aims to demonstrate how we will be building websites when the specifications are finalized and the browser vendors have implemented them. If you already know HTML and CSS, it should be easy to […]
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All About: CSS Positioning

At some point or another, if you want to lay out a complex CSS design, you’re probably going to have to turn to the veritable Swiss Army knife of advanced CSS layout: the position property. There are four possible values for this property: static, relative, absolute, and fixed. Let’s briefly go through each…
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