Shaded Progress Bars: A CSS/Sass Exercise
A tutorial on how to create some interesting 3D progress bars with CSS/Sass. Discover how to use box shadows and gradients to create realistic looking skins.
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.
How to Create a Fullscreen Video Opening Animation
by Manoela Ilic
A tutorial on how to create a video opening animation inspired by the effect seen on momentsapp.com.
Styling & Customizing File Inputs the Smart Way
A tutorial on how to style and customize <input type=”file”> in a semantic, accessible way using the <label> element and some JavaScript.
Creating Material Design Ripple Effects with SVG
An in-depth tutorial on how to build the ripple effect outlined under Google Material Design’s Radial Action specification and combine it with the powers of SVG and GreenSock.
Motion Blur Effect with SVG
by Lucas Bebber
A tutorial on how to create a motion blur effect on HTML elements using JavaScript and an SVG blur filter.
Prism Effect Slider with Canvas
A tutorial on how to create a slider with a “prism” effect using HTML5 canvas globalCompositeOperation and a layering technique.
Creating a “Jump Loader” Animation with SVG and GSAP
by Chris Gannon
Learn how to create a playful “Jump Loader” animation with SVG and GSAP.
Playful Trampoline Effect
by Manoela Ilic
A little playful content navigation effect that uses the draggable Elastic Stack and Snap.svg for animating a background shape like a trampoline. The demos are a tribute to Leonard Nimoy.
How to Create (Animated) Text Fills
by yoksel
A tutorial on how to create various types of (animated) fills and strokes for text using different techniques including CSS and SVG.
Sliding Header Layout
by Manoela Ilic
A tutorial on how to create a simple layout with a fullscreen header that slides up to reveal a content area with an image grid.
Resizing and Cropping Images with Canvas
Learn how to resize and crop images using JavaScript and the HTML5 Canvas element using controls, commonly seen in photo editing applications.
Making SVGs Responsive with CSS
An article on how to make embedded SVGs cross-browser responsive. We’re going to cover embedding techniques, how to apply the “Padding Hack” and how to use inline media queries to make SVGs adaptive.
Page Preloading Effect
by Manoela Ilic
A tutorial on how to re-create the page preloading effect seen on the website of Fontface Ninja. We are going to use CSS animations, 3D transforms and SVGs.
How to Create a Tiled Background Slideshow
by Manoela Ilic
A tutorial that shows how to recreate the four tiles slideshow effect seen on the website of Serge Thoroval. Using 3D transforms, transitions and animations, the aim is to implement a smooth effect and add some variations.
Recreating the “Design Samsung” Grid Loading Effect
by Manoela Ilic
A tutorial on how to achieve the grid loading effect seen on the “Design Samsung” site. The effect will show a colored element sliding in first and then sliding out again, revealing the image.
How to Create a Circular Progress Button
by Manoela Ilic
A tutorial on how to implement the circular progress button concept by Colin Garven. We are using the SVG line drawing animation technique as described by Jake Archibald to animate the circular progress and provide a success and error state to indicate the final status.
Tilted Content Slideshow
by Manoela Ilic
A tutorial on how to recreate the slideshow seen on the FWA landing page with 3D effects involving random animations.
Creating a Border Animation Effect with SVG and CSS
by Manoela Ilic
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.
