Simple Effects for Drop-Down Lists
by Mary Lou
A jQuery plugin for transforming select inputs into drop-down lists with some simple expanding effects.
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Calendario: A Flexible Calendar Plugin
by Mary Lou
A jQuery calendar plugin for creating flexible calendars.
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MyThemeShop Membership Subscription Giveaway
by Mary Lou
Win one of three MyThemeShop membership subscriptions and get access to over 30 premium WordPress themes.
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Using Transparency in Web Design: Dos and Don’ts
Experimenting with transparencies is a great way to expand your design repertoire. Like many other effects, use this technique sparingly and test the design in multiple environments to ensure that it works and looks as you intended.
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Awwwards Submission Giveaway
by Mary Lou
Win one of five standard submissions from Awwwards, the awards that recognize and promote the talent and effort of the best developers, designers and web agencies in the world.
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Three Script Updates
by Mary Lou
The animated responsive grid, the direction-aware hover effect and the swatchbook have all been updated and added to GitHub.
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Adaptive Thumbnail Pile Effect with Automatic Grouping
An experimental jQuery plugin that will group thumbnails by a shared data-attribute into a pile. When clicking on the pile, the thumbnails that belong to that pile will be spread into a grid using CSS transitions.
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Learning Principles for Improving Your CSS
This article will cover some basic principles and tips on how to learn and become better at CSS, based on personal experience.
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Responsive CSS Timeline with 3D Effect
by Mary Lou
A tutorial about how to create an experimental CSS-only timeline with a 3D effect. The idea is to expand a content area when the associated radio input is selected.
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Creative CSS Loading Animations
In this tutorial we’ll show you how to make some creative css-only loading animations also known as activity indicators.
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Baraja: A Plugin for Spreading Items in a Card-Like Fashion
With this jQuery plugin items can be spread in a card-like fashion and displayed in an unusual way. Several parameters allow many different spreading results, allowing a unique pattern.
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Mobile Design Typography is Vitally Important … and Challenging
One of the emerging challenges for web designers is creating web typography that works in the mobile environment as well. But it can be difficult, and there are many things to consider. The keys are to focus on readability, contrast, space and responsiveness.
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Responsive WordPress Theme Giveaway
by Mary Lou
Win one of three Proximet responsive WordPress themes by Anariel Design worth $40 each.
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Gamma Gallery: A Responsive Image Gallery Experiment
by Mary Lou
Gamma Gallery is an experimental responsive image gallery that attempts to provide an adjustable responsive images approach taking its grid layout and the full slideshow view into account.
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Heading Set Styling with CSS
In this tutorial we will create a couple of heading styles to get your creative juices flowing for your next project. Make heading styles work by applying the right combinations of colors, fonts and decoration.
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