Mary Lou

ML is a freelance web designer and developer with a passion for interaction design. She studied Cognitive Science and Computational Logic and has a weakness for the smell of freshly ground peppercorns.

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Manoela's Articles (395)

Enhance Required Form Fields with CSS3

In Tutorials May 2, 2012 18 Comments

Enhance required fields in a form with this little effect. The idea is to allow better visibility for obligatory fields while de-emphasizing optional ones.... read more

Rotating Words with CSS Animations

In Tutorials April 17, 2012 45 Comments

Using CSS Animations we will change or rotate some parts of a sentence.... read more

Direction-Aware Hover Effect with CSS3 and jQuery

In Playground April 9, 2012 59 Comments

How to create a direction-aware hover effect using CSS3 and jQuery. The idea is to slide in an overlay from the direction we are moving with the mouse.... read more

Slideshow with jmpress.js

In Tutorials April 5, 2012 111 Comments

Today we will create a slideshow using jmpress.js. The jQuery plugin that is based on impress.js will allow us to use some interesting 3D effects for the slides.... read more

Responsive Horizontal Layout

In Tutorials April 2, 2012 67 Comments

In this tutorial we'll create a horizontal website layout with individually scrollable content panels. We'll change the layout for smaller screens, making it respons... read more

More Examples of Fresh Effects in Web Design

In Articles March 24, 2012 38 Comments

Another set of websites that use some unconventional and fresh effects.... read more

Responsive Content Navigator with CSS3

In Tutorials March 23, 2012 53 Comments

Today we want to show you how to create a responsive, css-only content navigator.... read more

Parallax Content Slider with CSS3 and jQuery

In Playground March 15, 2012 137 Comments

A simple parallax content slider with different animations for each slider element and a background parallax effect.... read more

Accordion with CSS3

In Tutorials February 21, 2012 74 Comments

Using hidden inputs and labels, we will create a CSS-only accordion that will animate the content areas on opening and closing. ... read more

Sliding Image Panels with CSS3

In Tutorials January 17, 2012 69 Comments

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 o... read more

Filter Functionality with CSS3

In Tutorials January 9, 2012 66 Comments

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... read more

Examples of Fresh Effects in Web Design

In Articles January 5, 2012 32 Comments

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 thro... read more

Thumbnail Proximity Effect with jQuery and CSS3

In Tutorials January 4, 2012 39 Comments

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 n... read more

Fullscreen Background Image Slideshow with CSS3

In Tutorials January 2, 2012 147 Comments

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 appe... read more

CSS3 Lightbox

In Tutorials December 26, 2011 63 Comments

Today we want to show you how to create a neat lightbox effect using only CSS. The idea is to have some thumbnails that are clickable, and once clicked, the respecti... read more

Slopy Elements with CSS3

In Tutorials December 21, 2011 19 Comments

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... read more

Item Blur Effect with CSS3 and jQuery

In Tutorials December 14, 2011 34 Comments

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... read more

Experiments with background-clip: text

In Tutorials December 12, 2011 19 Comments

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 ... read more

Splash and Coming Soon Page Effects with CSS3

In Tutorials December 7, 2011 79 Comments

CSS3 opens up so many crazy possibilities and today we want to show you how to go wild with splash and coming soon page effects using CSS3 animations. We'll experime... read more

Lateral On-Scroll Sliding with jQuery

In Tutorials December 5, 2011 53 Comments

After getting the request, we are going to show you how to create a "slide-in on scroll" effect. You've probably seen this cool effect on some websites, like on Nizo... read more

Inspiring Examples of Symbol and Metaphor Use in Web Design

In Articles November 30, 2011 7 Comments

There are many creative ways of showing what a website is about: the use of images, videos, descriptions and more. Symbolic graphics and metaphorical pictures are a ... read more

Typography Effects with CSS3 and jQuery

In Tutorials November 28, 2011 52 Comments

Today we will create a set of nice typography effects for big headlines using CSS3 and jQuery. There are many things we can do with CSS3 animations and transitions a... read more

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