Condensed fonts: The good, the bad, the ugly
In Articles by Carrie Cousins
Condensed fonts can be tricky use and should be avoided for blocks of type, although they can work well when used sparingly.
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Parallax Content Slider with CSS3 and jQuery
In Playground by Manoela Ilic
A simple parallax content slider with different animations for each slider element and a background parallax effect.
Understanding and Using Type Categories in Web Design
In Articles
Knowing how to identify and use fonts from different type categories can make your projects come together more easily.
Principles of Color and the Color Wheel
In Articles by Carrie Cousins
Add the right feeling and mood to your site using the color wheel, mix and match hues and create effective color schemes.
Accordion with CSS3
In Tutorials by Manoela Ilic
Using hidden inputs and labels, we will create a CSS-only accordion that will animate the content areas on opening and closing.
Establish a Mood with Typography
In Articles by Carrie Cousins
The typefaces you select for a project can impact what people think as much as the actual message you convey.
Overcoming the “User Designer” Disease
In Articles by Patrick Cox
I constantly struggle with design, it’s sort of a never ending three sided war: my imagination vs. design knowledge vs. design tool proficiency. But I came to a realization a while back that most of us rely too heavily on the last part — the tools — and forget what actually makes a quality design.
Type Effects and Modification
In Articles by Carrie Cousins
Understanding type modifications can help designers focus on readability for chunks of type or a hint of flair for a more artistic approach.
3D Gallery with CSS3 and jQuery
In Playground by Manoela Ilic
Today, we want to share an experimental 3D gallery with you that uses CSS 3D transforms.
Keys to Email Creative Success: Marketing and Design
In Articles by Patrick Cox
Let’s talk about some ways to design and build better email creatives and campaigns.
How to create animated tooltips with CSS3
In Tutorials by Manoela Ilic
How to create some simple, animated tooltips using CSS transitions and the pseudo-classes :before and :after
Page Transitions with CSS3
In Tutorials by Sergio Camalich
In the last few years, we’ve seen a lot of single page websites lying around the internet, most of them using JavaScript for some transitions effect. Well, now I’m gonna teach you how you can have your own, but instead I’ll be using CSS Transitions and the :target property to do all the magic.
Modular front-end development with LESS
In Articles by Delwin Campbell
I am constantly looking for ways to make my work as a front-end developer easier and more efficient, but it is only recently that I have paid my good friend CSS any real attention. This article will explore the benefit of organizing your code efficiently while keeping it reusable and modular.
Be Less Annoying: Reduce Bounce Rates through Better Web Design
In Articles by Patrick Cox
A properly designed site can reduce bounce rate and increase engagement significantly. In this article, six important elements are introduced that are important for reducing a site’s bounce rate.
Arctext.js – Curving Text with CSS3 and jQuery
In Playground by Manoela Ilic
While CSS3 allows us to rotate letters, it is quite complicated to arrange each letter along a curved path. Arctext.js is a jQuery plugin that let’s you do exactly that. Based on Lettering.js, it calculates the right rotation of each letter and distributes the letters equally across the imaginary arc of the given radius.
How to spice up your menu with CSS3
In Tutorials by Manoela Ilic
Quick tip on how to spice up your menu with CSS3: add an image to every menu item and slide it out on hover.
Sliding Image Panels with CSS3
In Tutorials by Manoela Ilic
Today we’ll show you how to create some neat sliding image panels with CSS only. The idea is to use background images for the panels and animate them when clicking on a label. We’ll use radio buttons with labels and target the respective panels with the general sibling selector.
5 Things Every Mobile Design Should Have
In Articles by Patrick Cox
As much as we think mobile web design is very different from full screen web design, it really isn’t. There are some considerations that you may wish to take when designing for mobile browsers. I’ve tried to boil it down to 5 main elements that every mobile site MUST have.
