Grabbing Attention and Building a Moving Experience with Shape
In Articles, by Patrick Cox
Some thoughts on how shapes in web design can be used for attention-grabbing purpose and for an interesting or even comforting user experience.
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Responsive & Touch-Friendly Audio Player
In Playground, by Osvaldas Valutis
A jQuery audio player plugin that is responsive and touch-friendly. The UI is css-only, no images used.
StackSlider: A Fun 3D Image Slider
In Playground, by Manoela Ilic
An experimental image slider that flips through images in 3D. Two stacks resemble image piles where images will be lifted off from and rotated to the center for viewing.
Simple Effects for Drop-Down Lists
In Playground, by Manoela Ilic
A jQuery plugin for transforming select inputs into drop-down lists with some simple expanding effects.
Calendario: A Flexible Calendar Plugin
In Playground, by Manoela Ilic
A jQuery calendar plugin for creating flexible calendars.
Using Transparency in Web Design: Dos and Don’ts
In Articles, by Carrie Cousins
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.
Three Script Updates
In Articles, by Manoela Ilic
The animated responsive grid, the direction-aware hover effect and the swatchbook have all been updated and added to GitHub.
Adaptive Thumbnail Pile Effect with Automatic Grouping
In Playground, by Manoela Ilic
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.
Learning Principles for Improving Your CSS
In Articles, by Kitty Giraudel
This article will cover some basic principles and tips on how to learn and become better at CSS, based on personal experience.
Responsive CSS Timeline with 3D Effect
In Tutorials, by Manoela Ilic
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.
Creative CSS Loading Animations
In Tutorials, by Kitty Giraudel
In this tutorial we’ll show you how to make some creative css-only loading animations also known as activity indicators.
Baraja: A Plugin for Spreading Items in a Card-Like Fashion
In Playground, by Manoela Ilic
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.
Mobile Design Typography is Vitally Important … and Challenging
In Articles, by Carrie Cousins
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.
Gamma Gallery: A Responsive Image Gallery Experiment
In Playground, by Manoela Ilic
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.
Heading Set Styling with CSS
In Tutorials, by Kitty Giraudel
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.
Becoming Device-Agnostic
In Articles, by Patrick Cox
Responsive Web Design is more than just adjusting a web experience to different screen sizes. Becoming device-agnostic is an important step for creating future-proof websites and here are a couple of thoughts on that.
Elastislide Revised
In Articles, by Manoela Ilic
Elastislide, the responsive image carousel, has been updated and improved. It can be used vertically or horizontally and a minimun number of visible images can be specified.
Kick-Start Your Project: A Collection of Handy CSS Snippets
In Tutorials, by Kitty Giraudel
Don’t start your project with an empty style sheet: there are many great snippets that can make your life easier and speed up web development. We are going to show you some handy snippets that you might find useful for kick-starting your next project.
