Top CSS3 commands

admin — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:08:53 +0000

CSS3 is really starting to gather momentum with many of the commands outlined in the CSS3 working draft supported by Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome. We thought we’d put together some of our favourites. Before we get started CSS3 commands require browser specific syntax for them to work.

For Mozilla Firefox we need to use the -moz- prefix, for example:

-moz-border-radius:

And for Safari the -webkit- prefix, for example:

-webkit-border-radius:

1. Border radius

The CSS3 border radius command creates curved corners on an element. Instead of using 4 or more images to create curved corners use the following commands:

The curved corner command will not display in Internet Explorer

#box1 {
border: 1px solid #699;

/* for Mozilla Firefox */
-moz-border-radius: 20px;

/* for Safari & Google Chrome */
-webkit-border-radius: 20px;
}

2. Box shadow

A shadow can be applied to elements using the CSS3 box shadow command. The box shadow accepts three numeric values plus a colour to apply this effect. These numbers are:

1. Distance of horizontal offset of shadow – A positive value means the shadow will cast to the right and a negative value to the left
2. Distance of vertical offset of shadow – A positive value means the shadow will cast below and a negative value above
3. How blurry you’d like the shadow

With the addition of a colour value the shadow is complete:

#box2 {
/* Not mandatory for the box shadow effect */
border:1px solid #699;x

/* for Mozilla Firefox */
-moz-box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #b6ebf7;

/* for Safari & Google Chrome */
-webkit-box-shadow: 5x 5px 5px #b6ebf7;

3. Transparency or RGBA

Transparency has always been tricky. Different browsers historically have applied transparency using different commands. Continuing this cross-browser inconsistency we have the addition of the new CSS3 RGBA background property, however in principle this command is more logical. The command consists of 4 values – the first, second and third are the red, green & blue values (0-255) respectively followed by the alpha channel or transparency (0-1).

For the RGBA command the browser specific prefixes (-moz-, -webkit-) aren’t required:

#box3 {
background-color: rgba(110, 142, 185, .5);
}

The background colour command adds a nice blue-grey background at .5 or 50% opacity in browsers that understand the CSS3 RGBA property.

Unfortunately Internet Explorer will also attempt to render the background colour command but not understand RGBA. To ensure that the background colour is also set in IE an IE-only hack is required. In the following example the :last-child psuedo selector which Internet Explorer doesn’t understand is used to exclude it.

#box3 {
/* For all browsers */
background-color: #6e8eb9;
}

body:last-child #box3 {
/* Exclude all IE browsers using :last-child */
background-color: rgba(110, 142, 185, .5)!important;
}

4. Columns

The ability to add columns has been added to CSS3. Rather than floating elements within containers we can set the column number, width and rule:

#box4 {
/* Not mandatory for the column property */
border: 1px solid #699;

/* for Mozilla Firefox */
-moz-column-count: 2;
-moz-column-gap: 20px;
-moz-column-rule: 1px solid #6e8eb9;

/* for Safari & Google Chrome */
-webkit-column-count: 2;
-webkit-column-gap: 20px;
-webkit-column-rule: 1px solid #6e8eb9;
}

5. Multiple background images

Background imagery has always been restrictive when it comes to CSS due to the fact you can only apply one background image per element. This isn’t the case with CSS3 which allows multiple images per element by simply comma-separating them.

To place an image on both the left and right of an element you can use the following commands, with a little styling:

#box5 blockquote{
background:url(/i/quotel.gif) no-repeat 0 0, url(/i/quoter.gif) no-repeat 100% 0;
border:1px solid #699;

padding:0 20px;
}

This command will be mis-rendered by Internet Explorer as it doesn’t accept 2 background images on a single element. An exclude all IE hack is required.

#box5 blockquote {
/* For all browsers, just an open quote */
background: url(/i/quotel.gif) 0 0 no-repeat;
padding: 0 20px;
}

body:last-child #box5 blockquote{
/* Exclude all IE browsers using :last-child */
/* Then the two images */
background: url(/i/quotel.gif) no-repeat 0 0, url(/i/quoter.gif) no-repeat 100% 0;
}

6. Background gradients

CSS3 background gradients are extremely flexible and can be used to create complex patterns. At its simplest the CSS linear gradient allows a gradient to be applied to an element from top to bottom and left to right.

This example of a CSS3 gradient in Mozilla Firefox applies a light blue gradient at the bottom of a box for just 20% of the boxes’ height

#box8 {
/* for Mozilla Firefox */
background: -moz-linear-gradient(bottom, #b6ebf7, #fff 20%);
}

Safari uses a less intuitive but more flexible approach using colour stop values. An example of the Safari specific code follows (note the linear is included in brackets instead of outside):

#box8 {
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left bottom, left top, color-stop(0, #b6ebf7), color-stop(0.20, #fff));
}

7. Rotation

CSS3 also allows rotation of elements using the transform command, with the rotate property accepting degrees as a parameter.

#box9 { -moz-transform: rotate(2deg); -webkit-transform: rotate(2deg); }

8. Outlines

Outilines are included in the CSS3 specification and allow both a border and an outline to be applied to a single element.

The outline property is identical to the border command. The additional offset property however allows the border to be moved further inside or outside of the element.

#box7 {
border: 1px solid #000;
outline: 1px solid #699;
outline-offset: -9px;
}

How to Find Highly Profitable Keywords ?

admin — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 06:32:27 +0000

We could talk for days about all of the elements needed to make a successful website and we wouldn’t be wasting any of our time, there are a lot of optimization and content elements that could have you redesigning your site over and over. But to get right down to the grind, keywords are the most important aspect of a site, no ifs ands or buts. If you fail with your keywords, it would be just about impossible to imagine how your site could be successful. Let’s talk about the number one most important element of all, how to find highly profitable keywords.

Everyone knows that keywords are crucial to a site, however what makes a keyword are good keyword? What are the guidelines that let you know how to find highly profitable keywords and not ones that will sink your ship, so to speak? The answer is that highly profitable keywords will be words or phrases which are frequently searched for in major search engines, but that are not already being used by a large amount of websites. Sound tricky, doesn’t it? Well, it is a bit tricky; however that is the magic of the Internet. And we will discuss several ways on how you can find highly profitable keywords to either optimize your site better or to get a new website off to a great start.

Developer’s Paradise Sites of the Week for April 09th 2010

admin — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:58:21 +0000

Developer’s paradise sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Jacob Lee, Pixelcraft, TypeFaces, Marcelo Henrique, Kupferwerk.

Jacob Lee

Pixelcraft

TypeFaces

Marcelo Henrique

Kupferwerk

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Free Business Template for Download

admin — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 06:38:54 +0000

Photoshop is an awesome tool for the designers. No matter you are beginner of expert of Photoshop, so i thought it would be a great idea to share some freebies. In this post you will find free business template file that are free to download.

Licences Details

The business template file is licensed under the Creative Commons license and can be used for commercial and/or personal purposes.

Here is a preview of the homepage:

Download

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Developer’s Paradise Sites of the Week for April 03rd 2010

admin — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 07:24:53 +0000

Developer’s paradise sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Carol Rivello, Bounty Bev, Mick Evans, Made by Many, Lucia Soto.

Carol Rivello

Bounty Bev

Mick Evans

Made by Many

Lucia Soto

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25 Best Posts of the Design Community-March 2010

admin — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:14:40 +0000

There are a number of great tutorials, freebies, and articles related to design coming out on the web daily. In this roundup we have selected some great article, high quality tutorials and design freebies. Below are a list of these articles. Click the title to read full article:

Basic CSS3 Techniques That You Should Know

After 13 years of being a vital part of web designs, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) has evolved into a powerful tool, allowing you to develop more efficient and better-looking sites. Many of the new features in the latest CSS revision (CSS3) are rich and take the quality of our designs to the next level.

Create Portfolio Website With CSS/jQuery

Since last some weeks i have started learning jQuery, and today i thought why not give a tutorial on jquery and css. So i come up with this amazing tutorial (amazing for me atleast), which uses only pure CSS and jQuery to design a whole portfolio website, no photoshop or any other design software required.

CSS3 Transforms & @font-face Experiment

This is the first of what I hope are number of experiments I plan on working on over the next few months, all in an effort to get acquainted with some of the new CSS3 features out in the wild that seem to be gaining some traction.

Progressive enhancement: pure CSS speech bubbles

Speech bubbles are a popular effect but many tutorials rely on presentational HTML or JavaScript. This tutorial contains various forms of speech bubble effect created with CSS2.1 and enhanced with CSS3. No images, no JavaScript and it can be applied to your existing semantic HTML.

60 Excellent CSS3 Tutorials and Techniques You Should Know

n this post we present 60 Excellent CSS3 Tutorials and Techniques You Should Know that can strongly improve user experience, improve designer’s work-flow and replace dirty old workarounds that we used in Internet Explorer 6 & Co. Please notice that most techniques and tutorials presented below are experimental, and its good to have place at one post.

How To Create a Rockin’ Website Layout In Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial we’re going to create a chocolate-looking website layout. As we go through the different steps, we’ll deal with many techniques, some big typography, wood texturing, and so on. I hope you like this tutorial!

Color Correction Basics in Photoshop

Have you wanted to learn more about color correction? The focus of this tutorial is to help you delve deeper into color correcting to up the production value of your images. Learn a few simple techniques while creating.

Create a Candy Inspired Vector Snowboard Design

Learn how to put together a sweet candy inspired design in Illustrator by cutting, splitting and joining vector paths to produce an intricate weave of shapes. We’ll then add some finishing touches with subtle shading and a cool striped overlay to add depth to the design. The final concept will them be ready for being mocked up as a custom snowboard design.

How to Create a 3D House Icon with Photoshop

In this tutorial, you will learn to design a house icon in Adobe Photoshop. I’ve focused mainly on the flexible use of Layer Styles to give the different shapes its colors, giving us the ability to scale our work easier if needed. All the shapes involved in the tutorial are simple and can easily be made using shape tools. It is strongly recommended that you must have good command of shape and selection tools for certain portions of this tutorial.

30+ Best Icon Design Tutorials Part II

Recently icons are used widely in web and interface designs, icons convey the message in simple and effective manner,As a designer its always good to know how to design a icon on your own.

What’s Brand ?

Brand is an important part of any business. So why do some of us claim we brand businesses, when we fall so short on it’s definition and limit ourselves at logo design? There are many factors that affect a brand and these factors can contribute to a unique and long-lasting brand. We often overlook the real meaning of brand and we need to understand it to fully comprehend the field.

Social Media is Bullshit

Some of you probably clicked that link ready to defend the good name of social media, and you deserve commendation for your efforts. You can put the pitchforks down for a moment, because this article is not what you think. I love Twitter as much as the next person, but it’s the buzzwords around these types of sites that we can do without.

Are you a Mac or a PC?

Ah, the age old question – Are you a Mac or a PC? The question that has split computer user for over ten years and does not seem any closer to being resolved. On the one side you have the stylish and efficient Mac and on the other you have the popular work-horse that is the PC. Which do you prefer and why?

The History of Online Shopping in Nutshell

The Electronic commerce or e-Commerce as is known today evolved as businesses (end to end process) started to shift from real time market to digital market. All of the business today as we see is done over the internet and anything which is not there is meant to be wiped off. E-commerce, the online shopping system has brought down political and physical barriers giving everyone in the world an equal playing ground for their market, everyone can put their products on sale through the e-stores(website dedicated to selling of product, a virtual store).

10 Simple Tips for Launching a Website

The process of launching a website can be a daunting endeavor. There are many things you want to do, but not enough time and resources to do them. However, even though it might seem like a herculean task, as long as you keep some fundamental things in mind, you can ensure a hassle-free website launch.

5 High Resolution Abstract Brushes

Abstract brushes can often be a quick and easy solution to adding an interesting effect to a graphic without spending a whole lot of time on it. This set of 5 high resolution abstract brushes from Forty Winks may be just what you need for your next project. Download this free set and see them for yourself.

Freebie: Brick Textures

Today we have a set of 4 high-res brick textures that are available for free download. You can see each of the textures below, and if you want to download any of them individually you can click on the image and you’ll be led to the Flickr page. The set can be downloaded in a zip file at the end of the post.

24 Free Exclusive Google Buzz Icons

Google Buzz made a loud and controversial entrance when it launched in February shrouded with privacy issues and various other concerns.

44 Free Stylish Graffiti Fonts for Designers

Graffiti is a term used for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property. It is any type of public markings that appears in the forms of simple written words and/or elaborate wall paintings.

8 Free Scribbly Hand-Drawn Textures

I decided to post here at Circlebox Blog, includes eight high-resolution textures which were hand-drawn using various colored pens on card. They are completely free of charge, and can be used in both personal and commercial projects!

Showcase of 30 Beautiful Blog Designs

It’s been a while since we did our last blog design showcase, so this post is a collection of 30 beautiful blogs for your design inspiration. You’ll see some that use a minimalist design approach, others that use a grunge-style design, some that are magazine-style, and more. For more blog design inspiration, please see our gallery site Blog Design Heroes.

Showcase of Well Designed Websites

In this presentation, you’ll find a variety of highly-creative, beautiful and inspirational web designs. The main purpose here is to stimulate your creativity and to inspire your imagination to create your own design trend.

40 Breathtaking Photos from National Geographic Contest

The National Geographic has been known for bringing awareness about natural resources and the planet since 1888. It has been educating people and has been the largest non-profitable scientific organization that inspired millions of people to pay closer attention to their environment.

70+ Fresh and Inspirational Single Page Website Designs

In this presentation, you’ll find a variety of highly-creative, beautiful and most importantly inspirational designs which is following the same trend of single page designs.

Sneaking into Future: 25 Ultra Modern Websites Using HTML5

HTML5, the next major revision of HTML, the language of the internet, is set to revolutionize the way web developers and designers create websites and the way visitors use them. It’s being edited by Ian Hickson of Google and David Hyatt of Apple, two of the web’s greatest creative minds.

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Developer’s Paradise Sites of the Week for March 27th 2010

admin — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:23:24 +0000

Developer’s paradise sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Andre Goncalves, Stripes, Middlebury, Innovation-Germany.ca, Bsibility.

Andre Goncalves

Stripes

Middlebury

Innovation-Germany.ca

Bsibility

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30 Awesome Website Designs With Use of Cloud Effect

admin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:17:00 +0000

There is one thing web designers are always in need of and that is good high quality inspiration. I thought it would be a great idea to share some awesome websites for your inspiration. So here is Developers Paradise compilation of the awesome website designs with use of cloud effect. Hopefully these beautiful and creative art work will give you Inspiration for your next design project .

Let us know which one is your favorite? If you found any other Inspiration that you want to share with us,feel free to let us know by dropping in a comment.

Eastpoint

Orman Clark

Flourish Web Design

GMX

BenSky.co.uk

Free Mail Templates

Owltastic

Pixlogix

Ministério de Artes Freedom

The Villager Restaurant & Catering

Ktm Freelancer

Risanto.com

Jiří Tvrdek

Yo!Daa

Brad Colbow

Jan-Eike Koormann

Gummisig

Logic Source

Peter Pearson

cssDharma.com

The Pixel

Gilberto De Los Santos

Blue Sky Resumes

Envira Media

Hobby Center

Silly Poems for Even Sillier Kids!

Morphix.si

JanineXD.com

Thunder Games Works

DeAgostini

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10 Free Online Tools to Generate Favicon

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:55:42 +0000

Favicons are the little icons that show next to bookmarks and in the address bar of most browsers. Favicons are 16 pixels square. Upload a picture and click ‘Make Favicon!’ to create a favicon for your website. This favicon generator supports alpha transparency.

Today, we have some awesome favicon tools which can give more exposure to your website or blog. I think you should be already familiar with some of tools so you have to find out new ones. if you think i missed something you can tell in the comment box.

Dynamic Drive

Use this online tool to easily create a favicon (favorites icon) for your site. A favicon is a small, 16×16 image that is shown inside the browser’s location bar and bookmark menu when your site is called up. It is a good way to brand your site and increase it’s prominence in your visitor’s bookmark menu.

Favicon.co.uk

Favicon.co.uk is the another favicon generating website where you can Generate your own Favorites Icon for your website and view a gallery of some of the ones that have been created.

DeGraeve.com

DeGraeve is the another favicon generating website where you can Generate your own Favorites Icon for your website and view a gallery of some of the ones that have been created.

Favicon Prime

Favicon Prime is the another powerful FavIcon Generator. Upload image file for ICO generation. Maximum size: 2MB

The Favicon Editor

On this web site you will find the web application to import, edit, and save your favicons as well a tons of information on favicon.

Faviconr

Faviconr is an another online favicon generator tool to create favicon.

iConvert

iConvert allows you to easily convert Windows icons to Mac OS X icons, SVG icons to Windows icons, PNG icons to Mac OS X icons, JPG images to Windows icons, and much more. Simply upload a file in one of the supported formats, and iConvert will do the rest!

Favicon Maker v1

Favicon Maker is an another online favicon generator tool to create favicon.

Iconfu

iconfu is an easy-to-use free online icon editor, combined with an icon collection of over 12,000 free icons gathered from open-source collections around the world.

Favicon Factory

Favicon Factory is an another online favicon generator tool to create favicon.

256Pixels

256Pixels is today’s challenge. Make a favicon for a website.

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Developer’s Paradise Sites of the Week for March 19th 2010

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:54:58 +0000

Developer’s paradise sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Neiman Group, Przeznaczenie, Monkeyworks Illustration, Carlrose killy, Organic themess.