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- June 26, 2011
Useful HTML5/CSS3 Frameworks
Frameworks are an interesting topic. Some developers absolutely swear by them, other developers see them as unnecessary complications that add a lot of superfluous weight to what would otherwise be fairly simple code. I find them to be quite useful and timesaving.
HTML5 and CSS3 frameworks are becoming more and more popular every day, so in this post, we’ll examine some of the most popular CSS3 and HTML5 frameworks.
- May 11, 2011
Case Study: Designing with Modular Scale
A modular scale is a sequence of numbers that relate to one another in a meaningful way. Using the golden ratio, for example, we can produce values for a modular scale by multiplying by 1.618 to arrive at the next highest number, or dividing by 1.618 to arrive at the next number down.
- April 10, 2011
HTML5 & CSS3 – What You Should Know
HTML5, in conjunction with CSS3, will be a major alteration of how web pages are built once it is fully implemented. HTML4 was originally released in 1999 after only two years of work. There have been some minor adaptations since then, but the full upgrade to HTML5 has been “in committee” since 2001. The predicted finalization date was, at one point, extended as far out as 2022. That estimate has since been adjusted and the final release date is now believed to be sometime in 2014. As always, the biggest factor in the delays has been Microsoft. The behemoth simply doesn’t make quick adjustments. For years, they didn’t seem to be making any effort to adapt IE for using HTML5. Presently, they are working toward it and IE 9 can use some of the new features.
- April 6, 2011
Create Digital Poster Design with CSS3 Only
Follow this walkthrough of making a digital poster design made purely of HTML and CSS. Being a design that makes use of CSS3 properties, it’s only suited to the modern browsers of Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera.
- March 15, 2011
Create Attractive Web Typography with CSS3 and Lettering.js
CSS has come a long way in recent years, and with new browser support for a hand full of CSS3 properties the possibilities are becoming more and more diverse!
In this tutorial, we’ll look at how to take basic markup and transform it into an attractive typographical design using only minimum images, pure CSS3 magic and we will spice things up with lettering.js – a jQuery plugin for radical Web Typography.
To make things a bit interesting and less boring, instead of just using meaningless placeholder text I will use text from Jules Verne’s “Moon-Voyage” book, chapter X. The Observers of the Moon. So, let’s get started. - March 13, 2011
The Beauty of CSS3 – Useful and Innovative Coding Techniques
Just how awesome is CSS3? The main goal of this round-up, is to try to give answer to this question, and show you how powerfull CSS3 is. We will share with you new powerful CSS3 techniques which you will hopefully find very useful and valuable.
We also hope that techniques presented here, in this article, will encourage you to experiment with CSS3 and help design community to push CSS forward.
