Tag: CSS

Beginning With WordPress: Editing the Look of Your Site With CSS

This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series Beginning With WordPress So, now that we have a child theme set up we’re ready to get make some changes to the look and feel of our site. What You’ll Need Web browser – I’m using Chrome Text editor – I’m using Text Wrangler FTP… Continue reading Beginning With WordPress: Editing the Look of Your Site With CSS

Choosing a Grid System

In the previous article, I introduced you to grid systems. With any luck, by now, you should have a good understanding of what they are and why they’re a good weapon to have in your design arsenal. Today, I’m going to explain about choosing a grid system – from creating your own, to working with… Continue reading Choosing a Grid System

21 Responsive HTML5 CSS3 Frameworks You’ll Love

Creating a Responsive Website can be daunting for most web designers, Responsive HTML5 CSS3 Frameworks is a quick and easy solution for designers. You should consider having Frameworks in your workflow to simplify your development process. These Frameworks or Boilerplates include the complicated grids, media queries and layouts ready for you to use your own design and… Continue reading 21 Responsive HTML5 CSS3 Frameworks You’ll Love

Creating the New Google Play’s Multi-Level Navigation from Scratch

Google have recently released a new Google Play website complete with a new redesign and what caught my attention was the way they implemented their navigation bar. With the smooth animation and how they let users peek at the root-level menu by simply hovering a back button, I decided to build a similar navigation menu from scratch… Continue reading Creating the New Google Play’s Multi-Level Navigation from Scratch

10 Easy Image Hover Effects You Can Copy and Paste

Hover effects are always a fun topic to explore. In the past, we’ve built someawesome examples of CSS hovers that were easy to copy and paste right into your code. Today, we’re going to follow that up with ten new effects specifically built for use with images. Each example comes with an HTML and CSS snippet… Continue reading 10 Easy Image Hover Effects You Can Copy and Paste

19 Must-Have Chrome Extensions For Designers And Developers

Here, we have come up with another interesting collection of Chrome apps and this time we are focusing on 19 most essential apps for web designers and developers. Google Chrome is a powerful web browser and because of its simplicity many of us prefer it over many traditional web browsers. We have previously presented some… Continue reading 19 Must-Have Chrome Extensions For Designers And Developers

Useful Tutorials for Web Designers and Developers

In this round up I present some useful tutorials which can be very much helpful to all designers and developers.   Understanding the Qualities and Characteristics of Color Creating Content Tabs with Pure CSS Creating a Modern Lightbox with CSS3 and JavaScript Making Draggable Webpage Elements using jQuery 30 Must Have Wicked Text Effect Tutorials… Continue reading Useful Tutorials for Web Designers and Developers

Showcase Of Fresh And Free jQuery Plugins And Tutorials

Plugins and tutorials are great designing resources for the designers. With the help of tutorials, designers can learn and practice new technique of using their designing tool and plugins are meant to simplify their designing work. In the recent times, jQuery has become simply miraculous seeing that with jQuery you can discover plugins to achieve… Continue reading Showcase Of Fresh And Free jQuery Plugins And Tutorials

Recreate Google Nexus Menu

Recently I stumbled upon Codrops’ tutorial regarding the recreation of Google Nexus navigation menu. That was inspiring and such a creative navigation system from Google. So, I decided to create a jQuery version to challenge to myself. I have been playing with the original Google Nexus Menu for a while. Based on my observation, I summarised its… Continue reading Recreate Google Nexus Menu

Create a slide-out footer with this neat z-index trick

In this short tutorial, we are going to create an interesting slide-out footer with a bit of CSS. Grab the zip from the download button above, open it in your favorite code editor and read on! The Idea The effect we are after, is to give the impression that the page lifts up to reveal… Continue reading Create a slide-out footer with this neat z-index trick

How to build standards-compliant responsive design using @viewport

One of the key concepts in any responsive design is the change of viewport size. That’s because mobile viewports vary greatly from desktop viewports. To control the viewport size we traditionally use the viewport meta tag. However, the viewport meta tag, like all the worst browser developments of the last forever, isn’t W3C valid. It… Continue reading How to build standards-compliant responsive design using @viewport

Web Assets – Tips for Better Organization and Performance

Remember back to when we had to spend a lot of time optimizing our project’s assets (images, CSS, etc..)? Well today, users have a much faster Internet connection and it appears that we can afford to use bigger images or bigger flash files with a lot of video and pictures inside. However, with the rise… Continue reading Web Assets – Tips for Better Organization and Performance

Improving Layout With Vertical Rhythm

Learning all about the ins and outs of the technical side of typography is good. It will give you a solid grounding when looking for typefaces or fonts and will help you understand a little more about the art of typography itself. You’ll soon realise how much hard work it takes to get type right… Continue reading Improving Layout With Vertical Rhythm

Building a Circular Navigation with CSS Transforms

VIEW DEMO DOWNLOAD SOURCE In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to create circular navigations using CSS transforms. I’m going to take you through the steps for creating these styles one by one, and explain the math (yikes!) and simple logic behind them so you get a clear understanding of the technique. Like I… Continue reading Building a Circular Navigation with CSS Transforms

Add Depth to Flat UI with Flat Shadow.js

A while ago, I stumbled upon a post called Flat design casts a long shadow by the fine folks at Web Designer Depot and I was amazed by how adding a simple shadow could create such a beautiful depth of design to the flat UI elements. What if we bring this effect to the web? Today, let… Continue reading Add Depth to Flat UI with Flat Shadow.js

CSS 3D Image Flip Gallery With Dynamic Shadows

My recent book Pro CSS3 Animation walked the reader through a simple version of a 3D flip image gallery. After publication, I wanted to take it further: thus, this article. The UI challenge addressed here is the same focused on in many of my other CSS 3Dworks, such as the Origami UI: we live in a world of increasingly diversified… Continue reading CSS 3D Image Flip Gallery With Dynamic Shadows

Tutorial: How To Build Input Fields with Tag-Style Item Blocks

Many newer social media communities and web applications are pushing the boundaries of interface design. Form inputs have changed a lot over just the past 4-5 years. One such feature is the tag select input field, where users can enter tags which appear as block items within the field itself. For this tutorial I want… Continue reading Tutorial: How To Build Input Fields with Tag-Style Item Blocks

How To Build a Range Slider Input with jQuery UI

Looking at the HTML5 range input element you can see a number of advancements. Forms are able to take in restricted information from users sliding between number segments. But unfortunately these HTML5 inputs are only supported in modern browsers. So although there are a few limitations we can try to work around them. I want… Continue reading How To Build a Range Slider Input with jQuery UI

Type & Grids: Free Responsive HTML5 Template

Today, we are pleased to introduce Type & Grids, a free responsive HTML5 template by Jeremiah Shoaf. It looks great on all devices, including desktops, laptops, tablets and phones. All of the content resides in a single HTML file, so setting it up is super-simple. Its extensive customization options set Type & Grids apart from other templates… Continue reading Type & Grids: Free Responsive HTML5 Template

Create A Simple Responsive Portfolio Page with Filtering and Hover Effect

In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create portfolio page with filtering and also hover effect for each of your project item. We will be using a CSS3 and jQuery filter & sort plugin called MixItUp. This script should work pretty well with our previously published tutorial – display images with shape masking and… Continue reading Create A Simple Responsive Portfolio Page with Filtering and Hover Effect

10 Simple and Effective CSS Tricks for Web Designers

CSS is one of the important powers for web developing. You should have known lot of CSS tricks and tips which is simple but effective. Sometime a simple code makes a sweet impact in design. In this post you can learn 10 Simple and Effective CSS Tricks to implement in design. I supposed to post… Continue reading 10 Simple and Effective CSS Tricks for Web Designers

Create a Simple jQuery Image Lightbox Gallery

When building your own WordPress theme, there are a number of items to consider. One such page element is a dynamic image gallery, either using a lightbox or some type of sliding panel. Both of these user interfaces mesh nicely into the content of an article. Since they can both work on typical websites it… Continue reading Create a Simple jQuery Image Lightbox Gallery

New Features of Edge Reflow CC

Edge Reflow application is used by web designers to create a native web surface with CSS design and layout features in a familiar and intuitive way. Edge Reflow helps designers to create resizable layouts that simulate the look and feel of both desktop and mobile devices; control media query breakpoints in design for custom device sizes, add typography to their projects using the integrated Edge Web Fonts, and preview their work on desktops as well as mobile devices using the integrated Edge Inspect plug-in. You can extract CSS code and hand off to developers with confidence that your design vision will remain uncompromised throughout development.

Source: http://designmodo.com/edge-reflow-cc/#ixzz2Z0l3DYR3