Category: Tutorials

3 Ways to Add Depth to Any Website with CSS

In design, the small and subtle details can have the biggest impact. Smoother lines, refined textures, and the right shape and size bring a lot to the design. Finer details can take your designs from good to great. One technique we use regularly is adding depth to a design to give it that extra flair. […]
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CSS Borders – Apply unique borders to your images

Learn how to use CSS and a few graphics to dress up images. Make your images stand out with custom borders. Easy to apply with standard HTML and CSS…
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An In Depth Coverage Of CSS Layers, Z-Index, Relative And Absolute Positioning

CSS can be difficult to learn. When we’re talking about CSS Layers, Z-Index, Absolute and Relative Positioning, CSS beginners often struggle to grasp the concepts. This article attempts to explain these concepts in an easy to understand way…
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Stopping the CSS positioning panic Part 1

CSS positioning is quite easy. I guess no-one explained it plain and simple before. The first part this post will focus on the four types of CSS positioning: static, relative, absolute and fixed. The second part will focus on the float property that is obviously related to an element’s position in our site…
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Pure CSS opacity and how to have opaque children

Opacity is a desirable thing in this day and age; especially with the design trends that typified the web2.0 movement. Here are two different methods of achieving CSS opacity. One where the children inherit the opacity, the other where content can have its own opacity level…
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CSS Fundamentals: Containing Children

An article for CSS beginners that explains the mysteries of forcing parent divs to contain their children. Two methods are described – overflow: hidden, and clearfix…
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Four Sided PNG Drop Shadows with CSS

In the PNG Drop Shadows article we explored a new CSS method that uses the PNG image format to apply drop shadows to any arbitrary box, producing excellent looking shadows. That’s great, but the method limits us to having shadows on just two sides of the content box. Clients aren’t going to be satisfied with […]
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CSS – Imageless Rounded Corners

Over the past few years, many web designers have decided rounded-corners improve the layout/usability of their sites. Typically, two techniques are used: using background images with layered elements or simulating rounded corners with elements inserted via JavaScript. Both techniques have a drawback, requiring extra load time for images to download or for JavaScript to execute. […]
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CSS String Truncation with Ellipsis

Truncation on the server-side is unnecessary, complicated, and usually confusing to the user. Luckily, CSS offers a combination of properties to truncate strings and add ellipsis… on the client-side, without JavaScript…
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Easy Tab Tutorial with CSS and jQuery – Tabbed Navigation

There are quite a few tutorials out there that demonstrate how to create tabs with CSS and jQuery. Here’s one that’s easy to understand even for a beginner…
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