When redesigning my new site, I experimented with creating a realistic behaving button with CSS3. You can see it in action on the contact page. It was created mainly with the use of different box-shadow values for the static state … Continue reading
On my new portfolio site, I included a neat effect which spins the social icons with the help of a CSS transform and transition when you hover over them. Nothing amazing but definitely a nice enhancement. I used Komodo Media’s excellent social network icon pack (along with a couple I created myself) which look fantastic. Let’s see how it’s done.
CSS3 is here to make our lives easier as web designers and developers. While it’s not something we can always rely on heavily for layout purposes just yet, we can use it to enhance certain aspects of our designs by spending a considerably less amount of time doing so.
However, CSS3 has not been created for the sole purpose of making it easier and quicker to create a website but also so we can create much better sites than we ever could with CSS before. Here are a few examples of how CSS3 Continue reading
HTML5 is the future of web development but believe it or not you can start using it today. HTML5 is much more considerate to semantics and accessibility as we don’t have to throw meaningless div’s everywhere. It introduces meaningful tags for common elements such as navigations and footers which makes much more sense and are more natural.
This is a run through of the basics of HTML5 and CSS3 while still paying attention to older browsers. Continue reading
Any good website owner knows that they need to be constantly looking at ways to improve their site even through small little tweaks. If you’re using Wordpress you’ll notice that it isn’t easy to create a development version without creating a separate installation. Of course, you can make changes directly on a live WordPress site but that isn’t recommended for anything other than minor tweaks. Continue reading
Twitter has become one of the most popular forms of social media in use on the web today and it has been widely adopted by web designers and developers alike. There are many ways of integrating Twitter onto your site. … Continue reading
Photoshop is one of the most widely tools used for web design. Most web designers don’t use all of the great things that Photoshop can do. It’s easy to get stuck in your ways but instead you should be looking to further improve your skills and learn new techniques to improve your web design work, work flow and productivity. Continue reading
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