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Better Image Preloading with CSS3

I recently added to my growing library of image-preloading methods with a few new & improved techniques. After posting that recent preloading article, an even better way of preloading images using pure CSS3 hit me. Using CSS3’s new support for multiple background images, we can use a single, existing element to preload all of the […]
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How to Create a Cool Anaglyphic Text Effect with CSS

Anaglyphs are those amazing 3D images that are created by offsetting two of the red, green and blue channels, and are viewed with those nerdy looking 3D glasses with different coloured lenses. I don’t know if this effect works for real, as I’ve unfortunately misplaced my 3D specs, but it’s a pretty cool text effect […]
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Extending CSS with jQuery

Before we leap in, let’s take a look at why jQuery has come to be the most widely adopted of JavaScript frameworks. First, it’s extremely designer friendly. You’ll see some standard CSS mark-up – hover conditions, list elements – defining styles is very much a static process, but jQuery allows you to easily and instantly […]
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PrimerCSS

Primer undercoats your CSS by pulling out all of your classes and id’s and placing them into a starter stylesheet. Paste your HTML in to get started…
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Creating Triangles in CSS

I’ve come across a few techniques and tips in my career, and one of them is this neat trick to create triangles in CSS. Little people realize when a browser draws the borders, it draws them at angles. This technique takes advantage of that…
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Creating a Time Saving CSS Template

If you are a freelance developer then saving time always works in your favor. One way to help you save time, especially if like me, you find yourself doing a lot of the same kind of work over and over, is setting up templates. In the case of web development, having a customized template for […]
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CSS Performance: UI with Fewer Images

Often performance improvements come with their drawbacks, sometimes improving performance causes pains in other parts of the development process or strips stuff from the final product. Sometimes there’s even a conflict where you have to pick: slow, unusable and beautiful or fast and looking like hacked with a blunt axe. But it doesn’t have to […]
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Practical Uses of CSS3

CSS3 is not fully supported across all browsers. If you still want everything to look exactly the same across all browsers, you should probably just close this article and not read about CSS for another 10 years. A user is not going to pull up your site in two different browsers to compare the experience, […]
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RMSforms – A flexible CSS Forms Framework

If you are a Web designer or developer, you know that styling forms with CSS is a huge pain. Not only are browser inconsistencies rampant in form elements, but it is very difficult to get an advanced form to layout correctly, both visually & semantically. To alleviate these issues and to help designers / developers […]
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What You Need To Know About Behavioral CSS

CSS 3 properties like border-radius, box-shadow, and text-shadow are starting to gain momentum in WebKit (Safari, Chrome, etc.) and Gecko (Firefox) browsers. They are already creating more lightweight pages and richer experiences for users, not to mention that they degrade pretty gracefully; but they are only the tip of the iceberg of what we can […]
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