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Demystifying CSS At-Rules

CSS at-rules or @rules are so-named because they utilize an @ character. They aren’t used as often as other CSS elements, and for a long time I didn’t really understand them. If you’ve ever been confused about CSS at-rules, here’s a quick guide…
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The CSS white-space Property Explained

CSS has a pretty useful property called white-space that I’m guessing goes unnoticed among CSS beginners. You can probably live without this property for quite some time, but once you learn how to use it, it will come in very handy and you’ll find yourself going back to it over and over again. This article […]
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Create a Vibrant Digital Poster Design with CSS3

CSS has come a long way in recent years, and with new browser support for a hand full of CSS3 properties we can begin to replicate design styles directly in the browser that beforehand were recently only possible in our design applications. Follow this walkthrough of the making of Circlicious, a vibrant and abstract digital […]
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Presentation on CSS font stacks
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Efficiently Rendering CSS

I admittedly don’t think about this idea very often… how efficient is the CSS that we write, in terms of how quickly the browser can render it? This is definitely something that browser vendors care about (the faster pages load the happier people are using their products). Mozilla has an article about best practices. Google […]
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Using CSS3 Transitions, Transforms and Animation

First things first – these demos are showing of CSS transitions, transforms 2D and 3D and animations. Currently May 2010, transitions and 2D transforms are available in all current browsers at least in a dev build apart from Internet Explorer, 3D transforms and animations are only in Safari. Most examples degrade nicely, so if you […]
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Create Beautiful CSS3 Typography

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 […]
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Better Page Corner Ads with CSS3 Transforms

The other day I came across a useful site called ScriptSrc.net that allows you to get up-to-date script tag links that point to your favourite JavaScript libraries. The site has a clickable corner ad promo to get people to “spread the word”. I thought using CSS3 there would be a better way to position such […]
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How to Center an Absolutely Positioned Element Using CSS

Centering an absolutely positioned element is a CSS challenge that occurs now and then. The solutions seem obvious once I’ve done it, but I still find myself googling the problem every few months…
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Pure CSS Icons

Having marvelled at David Desandro’s Opera Logo made entirely in HTML and CSS, I wanted to try a similar experiment for myself. So with a large scoop of border-radius I set about trying to create various “common” icons that could be used in your web apps…
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