In this section you will find in-depth how-tos involving common web development and web design techniques.
by Mary Lou
The website of Carl Philipe Brenner has some very creative and subtle animations and today we want to explore how to recreate a border animation effect using CSS transitions on SVG lines.
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by Terry Mun
A tutorial on how to create sticky headers and columns for tables using jQuery. The solution is an alternative to other sticky table header approaches and it addresses the overflowing table problem including adding support for biaxial headers.
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by Mary Lou
In this tutorial we’ll recreate the hover effect as seen on The Christmas Experiments website. We’ll be using SVG for the shape and Snap.svg for animating it on hover.
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In this article we’ll explore all the current techniques for creating image or texture filled text and show you how to apply them.
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by Oleg Solomka
Despite the growing popularity of SVG, its time around and excellent browser support, we have a lack of good vector icon approaches. It’s time to fill this gap and use SVG as icons in our web projects.
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by Diego Pardo
A tutorial on how to create an interesting animated 3D opening type effect with pseudo-elements, CSS transforms and transitions. The idea is based on Edenspiekermann’s Open Type project and it’s a very creative way to display and play with letters.
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An article on how to achieve Medium’s next page transition effect—an effect that can be seen by clicking anywhere on the “Read Next” footer at the bottom of the page. This effect is characterized by the lower article easing upward as the current article fades up and out.
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by Mary Lou
A tutorial on how to create a off-canvas icon navigation with an animated border effect. The menu effect is inspired by CreativeDash’s bounce menu for mobile apps.
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by Nick Pettit
A tutorial about a technique that uses box shadows for creating a realistic shading effect on simple objects.
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A tutorial on how to create a circular navigation using CSS transforms.
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by Mary Lou
A tutorial on how to re-create the slide out sidebar menu that can be seen on the Google Nexus 7 website.
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by Mary Lou
A little journey into positioning header elements to be centered vertically and justified with the help of pseudo-elements.
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by Mary Lou
A tutorial on how to (ab)use custom data attributes and pseudo-elements for creating image captions.
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by Mary Lou
A tutorial on how to create a mobile-friendly and responsive expanding search bar.
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by Mary Lou
A tutorial on how to create some subtle and modern caption hover effects.
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by Stuart Memo
Get started with the Web Audio API by learning how to recreate the classic miniature synthesizer.
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by Mary Lou
An experimental form that uses natural language instead of the usual form display. Values are entered using custom input elements.
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A responsive, touch-friendly and Retina-ready menu with three layouts for different browser sizes.
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