This tutorial will show you how to create a notebook themed website using only CSS. First, we will start out by creating a basic wrapper by specifying that the body tag should have the following CSS properties: body { background-color: #f5f5f5; width: 600px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0; } Next, we are going to make an unordered list, I’ll call mine list: .list { color: #555; font-size: 22px; padding: 0 !important; width: 500px; font-family: courier, [...]

You may be asking yourself “It is time to change? Should I forget everything I know and dive into this new world?”. Well dear padawan, you don’t need to do so. We have a lot of tools that make our transition to new and better technologies safer (ultimately we can’t just crash our customer’s website, we have bills to pay ).

Since the come out of CSS3 the life of developers become easy. In this post we have collected some useful and fresh CSS3 tutorials for developers and designer to increase there skills. Please feel free to mention in the comments if we missed any CSS3 tutorials from 2011. Enjoy!!

The hard work of front-end designers never ceases to amaze us. Over the last months, we’ve seen Web designers creating and presenting a plethora of truly remarkable CSS techniques and tools. We have collected, analyzed, curated and feature latest useful resources for your convenience, so you can use them right away or save them for future reference. Please don’t hesitate to comment on this post and let us know how exactly you are using them [...]

In case you weren’t aware, CSS animations are awesome.  They’re smooth, less taxing than JavaScript, and are the future of node animation within browsers.  Dojo’s mobile solution, dojox.mobile, uses CSS animations instead of JavaScript to lighten the application’s JavaScript footprint.  One of my favorite effects is the spinning, zooming CSS animation.  Let me show you how it’s done!

If you are a busy web designer or developer, using a CSS framework could speed up your work dramatically and make your task far easier. The CSS frameworks facilitate rapid development, could be used as a foundation in many design projects, and take care of some of most repetitive tasks. Here is a comprehensive list of CSS frameworks, which will give you a head start in your design work – some of them are well [...]

In this article I am going to use some of the CSS tricks to create a calendar icon you can use for your blog posts or something similar. It is important to notify that there are no images used here and the markup couldn’t be simpler than it is. The final result looks like the image below.

It is almost impossible to gather in an article all the CSS code snippets that could help you in the future but here are some of the ones that you would need more often than others. Don’t get scared by the length of some of these CSS hacks’s code cause they’re all easy to implement and where is the case, they’re well documented. Besides the ones that solve common and annoying problems there are also [...]

Making Better Select Elements with jQuery and CSS3 In this tutorial we are building a script that is going to take an ordinary select element, and replace it with a better looking, markup powered version, while keeping all the functionality intact.

The CSS3 text-shadow property has been around for some time now and is commonly used to recreate Photoshop’s Drop Shadow type shading to add subtle shadows which help add depth, dimension and to lift an element from the page. This isn’t all the text-shadow property is capable of though, by getting creative and playing around with the colours, offset and blurring we can create some clever and pretty cool text effects!   Check out the [...]