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.
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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.
CSS Buttons with Pseudo-elements
In Tutorials, by Sergio Camalich
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create buttons with a twist, using just one anchor tag per button and the great power of CSS.
Animated Web Banners With CSS3
In Tutorials, by Caleb Jacob
Today we’re going to take a look at spicing up our web banners, ads or any content for that matter, with CSS3 animations.
Filter Functionality with CSS3
In Tutorials, by Manoela Ilic
Using the general sibling combinator and the :checked pseudo-class, we can toggle states of other elements by checking a checkbox or a radio button. In this tutorial we will be exploring those CSS3 properties by creating a experimental portfolio filter that will toggle the states of items of a specific type.
Jumping the Hurdles of Brainstorming
In Articles, by Patrick Cox
Usually, brainstorming sessions happen within a group so that individuals can feed off each others ideas. However, for the majority of us, brainstorming and creative innovation is a solitary task.
Examples of Fresh Effects in Web Design
In Articles, by Manoela Ilic
Having some fresh and maybe even unexpected effects on a website, can juice up the experience for the user. Be it a whole new and experimental way of navigating through the website or just a tiny surprising hover effect – fresh effects can spice up your design and bring some life to it.
Thumbnail Proximity Effect with jQuery and CSS3
In Tutorials, by Manoela Ilic
Today we want to show you how to create a neat thumbnail proximity effect with jQuery. The idea is to scale thumbnails when hovering over them and also scale their neighbouring thumbnails proportionally to their distance. We’ll also make a description appear.
Fullscreen Background Image Slideshow with CSS3
In Tutorials, by Manoela Ilic
Happy new year, everybody! Today we will create a CSS-only fullscreen background image slideshow. We’ll create different image transitions and also make a title appear using CSS animations.
How Often Do You Try New Things?
In Articles, by Patrick Cox
Web design in complicated and requires a lot of time and knowledge — and patience. It’s no longer just embedded text background images and slices; it’s interactivity and dynamic content, it’s HTML5 and mobile development, it’s JSON objects and Local Storage.
With Rocking Letters into the New Year
In Playground, by Team Codrops
2011 has been an exciting year for Codrops and we want to thank you for supporting us! We’ve learned a lot and it’s a privilege to us to be able to share our tutorials, experiments and thoughts with you. We hope that you have enjoyed our content and that it was inspiring and useful to you!
CSS-Only Lightbox
In Tutorials, by Manoela Ilic
Learn how a CSS-only powered image lightbox works and how to add fancy animations
Slopy Elements with CSS3
In Tutorials, by Manoela Ilic
It’s always a delight to see some non-straight elements in web design. Angled shapes and diagonal lines can create an interesting visual flow and add some unexpected excitement. Inspired by many superb designs that use non-straight elements, I want to show you some simple examples and ways how to create slopy, skewed elements with CSS only.
Experimental CSS3 Animations for Image Transitions
In Playground, by Manoela Ilic
Today we want to share some experimental 3D image transitions with you that use CSS3 animations and jQuery. We’ll be using CSS3 3D Transforms for Webkit only.
Item Blur Effect with CSS3 and jQuery
In Tutorials, by Manoela Ilic
Today we want to show you how to create a simple blur effect for text-based items. The idea is to have a set of text boxes that will get blurred and scaled down once we hover over them. The item in focus will scale up. This will create some kind of “focus” effect that drwas the attention to the currently hovered item.
Experiments with background-clip: text
In Tutorials, by Manoela Ilic
With the CSS property “background-clip: text” (which is currently only supported in Webkit browsers), we can add a background image to a text element. Today we will experiment with it and create some fun examples by adding CSS3 transitions.
25 Examples of Perfect Color Combinations in Web Design
In Articles, by Gisele Muller
Today we will show you some examples of websites that are using beautiful and inspiring color combinations that match perfectly and create an eye candy result. From delicate and smooth colors to strong duos and super colorful pages, we have several styles to show you.
