CSS Buttons with Pseudo-elements
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.
Tutorials
In this section, you will find a variety of in-depth articles written by skilled front-end developers that cover a range of web development and web design techniques.
Animated Web Banners With CSS3
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
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.
Thumbnail Proximity Effect with jQuery and CSS3
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
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.
CSS-Only Lightbox
by Manoela Ilic
Learn how a CSS-only powered image lightbox works and how to add fancy animations
Slopy Elements with CSS3
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.
Item Blur Effect with CSS3 and jQuery
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
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.
Splash and Coming Soon Page Effects with CSS3
by Manoela Ilic
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 experiment with animation sequences and how to bring some life to some simple elements.
Lateral On-Scroll Sliding with jQuery
by Manoela Ilic
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 or in the portfolio section of brilliantly designed La Moulade. The main idea is to laterally slide in elements depending on the scroll position of the document. Dividing the page into a left and right side, we want to move the elements from “outside” of the page to the center when they are in the viewport. We will also add the option to move the elements in 3D space.
Typography Effects with CSS3 and jQuery
by Manoela Ilic
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 and we’ll explore some of the possibilites.
Hover and Click Trigger for Circular Elements with jQuery
by Manoela Ilic
Today we want to share one possible solution to the circle hovering problem. We’ll create a plugin that will take care of the ‘mouseenter’, ‘mouseleave’ and ‘click’ events to be triggered only on the circular shape of the element and not its bounding box.
Elastic Image Slideshow with Thumbnail Preview
by Manoela Ilic
Today we want to show you how to create a simple elastic slideshow with a thumbnail preview. The slideshow will adjust automatically to its surrounding container and we can navigate through the slides by using the thumbnail previewer or the autoplay slideshow option.
Interactive Typography Effects with HTML5
by Tim Holman
With HTML5 gaining popularity, this tutorial outlines what is really just the tip of the iceberg that is interactive design. In this tutorial I will go over the development of dynamic, and generative banners to give your website that little extra wow!
Animated Buttons with CSS3
by Manoela Ilic
Still hyped by the possibilities of CSS3, I want to share some CSS3 button experiments with you. The idea is to create some animated link elements with different styles, hover effects and active states.
Original Hover Effects with CSS3
The power of CSS3 is enormous and in this tutorial we will see how to exploit it in a very creative way. We are going to create some thumbnail hover effects with CSS3 transitions. On hover over a thumbnail, we will reveal some description of the thumbnail, using a different style in each example.
Creative CSS3 Animation Menus
by Manoela Ilic
Being in the mood for experimenting with CSS3, I’d like to show you some creative menu hover effects in today’s tutorial. The idea is to have a simple composition of elements, an icon, a main title and a secondary title, that will be animated on hover using only CSS transitions and animations. We’ll be exploring some different effects for the elements.
