Posts Tagged ‘Techniques’
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CSS3 TransitionsThank God We Have A Specification!
- April 26th, 2013
- 19 Comments
This article is packed with a number of quirks and issues you should be aware of when working with CSS3 transitions. Please note that I’m not showing any workarounds or giving advice on how to circumvent the issues discussed. Alex MacCaw has already written a very insightful and thorough article ...
Read more...Overview And ExamplesHow To Benefit From CSS Generated Content And Counters
- April 12th, 2013
- 23 Comments
Generated content was first introduced in the CSS2 specification. For several years, the feature was used by relatively few Web authors due to inconsistent browser support. With the release of Internet Explorer 8 in 2009, generated content was rediscovered, and many interesting implementations were adopted for the first time. In ...
Read more...Adapting To The InkTips And Tricks For Print Style Sheets
- March 8th, 2013
- 30 Comments
Print continues to be treated somewhat cursorily by most Web designers, who tend to be obsessed with pixels rather than printers. In the real world, a significant portion of people rely on pages printed from websites for reference: there’s still something about having a physical sheet of paper in one’s ...
Read more...Web TypographySetting Weights And Styles With The @font-face Declaration
- February 14th, 2013
- 32 Comments
If people are on your website, they’re probably either skimming quickly, looking for something, or they’ve found what they’re looking for and want to read it as easily as possible. Either way, keeping text readable will help them achieve their goal. A few months ago, I wrote an article on “Avoiding ...
Read more...Starting An Open-Source Project
- January 3rd, 2013
- 21 Comments
At Velocity 2011, Nicole Sullivan and I introduced CSS Lint, the first code-quality tool for CSS. We had spent the previous two weeks coding like crazy, trying to create an application that was both useful for end users and easy to modify. Neither of us had any experience launching an ...
Read more...Building A Relationship Between CSS & JavaScript
- November 19th, 2012
- 56 Comments
jQuery, Prototype, Node.js, Backbone.js, Mustache and thousands of JavaScript microlibraries all combine into a single undeniable fact: JavaScript is popular. It’s so popular, in fact, that we often find ourselves using it in places where another solution might be better in the long run. Even though we keep JavaScript, CSS and ...
Read more...Hex ColorsThe Code Side Of Color
- October 4th, 2012
- 67 Comments
The trouble with a color’s name is that it never really is perceived as the exact same color to two different individuals — especially if they have a stake in a website’s emotional impact. Name a color, and you’re most likely to give a misleading impression. Even something like “blue” is ...
Read more...Free Bash ScriptBatch Resizing Using Command Line and ImageMagick
- September 9th, 2012
- 37 Comments
If you deal with images, sooner or later you will want to automate the repeating process of saving different sizes from one source image. If you own Adobe Photoshop and do not save too many output sizes, Photoshop actions are probably quite enough for your needs. However, keeping a ...
Read more...Powerful New CSS- and JavaScript Techniques
- June 21st, 2012
- 46 Comments
Since our last round-up of useful CSS techniques, we’ve seen a lot of truly remarkable CSS geekery out there. With CSS3, some of the older techniques now have become obsolete, others have established themselves as standards, and many techniques are still in the “crazy experimentation” stage. Since the release of the ...
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