Posts Tagged ‘Techniques’
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Behind The Scenes Of Nike Better World
- July 12th, 2011
- 88 Comments
Perhaps one of the most talked about websites in the last 12 months has been Nike Better World. It’s been featured in countless Web design galleries, and it still stands as an example of what a great idea and some clever design and development techniques can produce. In this article, we’ll ...
Read more...Five Useful Interactive CSS/jQuery Techniques Deconstructed
- June 16th, 2011
- 58 Comments
With the wide variety of CSS3 and JavaScript techniques available today, it’s easier than ever to create unique interactive websites that delight visitors and provide a more engaging user experience. In this article, we’ll walk through five interactive techniques that you can start using right now. We’ll cover animated text ...
Read more...Powerful New CSS Techniques and Tools
- April 18th, 2011
- 74 Comments
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 ...
Read more...Styling Elements With Glyphs, Sprites and Pseudo-Elements
- March 19th, 2011
- 63 Comments
In 2002, Mark Newhouse published the article "Taming Lists", a very interesting piece in which he explained how to create custom list markers using pseudo-elements. Almost a decade later, Nicolas Gallagher came up with the technique pseudo background-crop which uses pseudo-elements with a sprite. Today, on the shoulders of giants, ...
Read more...Technical Web Typography: Guidelines and Techniques
- March 14th, 2011
- 117 Comments
The Web is 95% typography, or so they say. I think this is a pretty accurate statement: we visit websites largely with the intention of reading. That’s what you’re doing now — reading. With this in mind, does it not stand to reason that your typography should be one of ...
Read more...Syncing Content With HTML5 Video
- March 11th, 2011
- 44 Comments
One of the main changes from HTML4 to HTML5 is that the new specification breaks a few of the boundaries that browsers have been confined to. Instead of restricting user interaction to text, links, images and forms, HTML5 promotes multimedia, from a generic <object> element to a highly specified <video> ...
Read more...In Search Of The Perfect CAPTCHA
- March 4th, 2011
- 153 Comments
CAPTCHAs, or Completely Automated Public Turing Tests to Tell Computers and Humans Apart, exist to ensure that user input has not been generated by a computer. These peculiar puzzles are commonly used on the Web to protect registration and comment forms from spam. To be honest, I have mixed feelings ...
Read more...CSS: Innovative Techniques and Practical Solutions
- February 16th, 2011
- 49 Comments
Although CSS isn’t that difficult, useful CSS techniques are not easy to find. Sometimes finding a cross-browser solution might take time, but you don’t have to reinvent the wheel every single time. Other designers may have had the same problem in the past and thus the main goal of this ...
Read more...The Bright (Near) Future of CSS
- February 11th, 2011
- 82 Comments
This article is an excerpt from Eric Meyer’s recent book Smashing CSS, published by Wiley in cooperation with Smashing Magazine. In this article, the focus is on what’s coming: styling techniques you’ll use in the immediate and near-term future. From styling HTML 5 elements to rearranging layout based on display parameters ...
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