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Cross-browser drop shadows using pure CSS

There’s an awful lot of noise at the moment regarding dropping IE6 and forging ahead with CSS3 properties for the finer touches on web layouts. Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser? One such example is adding drop shadows to content blocks. There are countless ways of achieving this, most requiring […]
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A Look at Some of the New Selectors Introduced in CSS3

Everyone who has been using CSS is immediately familiar with selectors as they are what is used to target elements on a page and style them. CSS3 brings even more options as far as selecting elements goes. It will allow designers and developers to implement designs much easier and quicker than before…
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The Power of HTML 5 and CSS 3

HTML 5 enables us to replace our multitude of divs with semantically meaningful structural elements. This semantic specificity not only improves the underlying quality and meaningfulness of our web pages, but also enables us to remove many of the class and id attributes that were previously required for targeting our CSS. In fact, CSS 3 […]
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30 Essential CSS3 Resources

Web designers around the world are extremely excited about the power of CSS3 and the creative freedom it offers. With that in mind, we’ve rounded up 29 resources for you to learn more…
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Multi-column layout with CSS3 and some JavaScript

There’s a common newspaper and print layout method where the text of an article is arranged over several columns. This makes the article easer to read and looks quite nice visually. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do this with CSS? Well, in fact this is perfectly possible using the multi-column layout module that […]
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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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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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CSS3 – a big storm is coming

A big storm is coming, and it hopefully will blow away a lot of things that are wrong with web design. While the current CSS standard offered tremendous steps away from traditional print design, with CSS3 media queries and multi-column layouts it will be a whole new ballgame. The possibilies we have now hopefully change […]
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Taming Long Words with CSS word-wrap

Web browsers have a long history of sharing features between them. The word-wrap CSS property is a feature that originally came from Microsoft and is included in CSS3. Now available in Firefox 3.5, this CSS property allows the browser to arbitrarily break up long words or strings of characters to fit within a given element…
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New CSS3 properties in Firefox 3.5

Firefox 3.5 supports several new CSS3 selectors. In this post we’ll talk about four of them: :nth-child, :nth-last-child, :nth-of-type and :nth-last-of-type. Each of these is called a Pseudo-class and can be used to apply styles to existing selectors. The best way to describe how this works is with some examples…
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