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Developing a Responsive Website: Background Images

In this installment we’re going to set up the structure of our homepage and add in a few media queries that will help the site load quicker, navigate better, and keep our desired appearance across multiple devices, platforms, and resolutions. Read More
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Sliding Image Panels with CSS3

Today we’ll show you how to create some neat sliding image panels with CSS only. The idea is to use background images for the panels and animate them when clicking on a label. We’ll use radio buttons with labels and target the respective panels with the general sibling selector.

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Current Page Link Styles

One of the most common things you’ll see on any website is a navigation bar that has a different set of CSS styles applied to the link that represents the current page the user is on. There are a few ways you can do this with HTML and CSS, which I’ll outline here.

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The Lowdown on :Before and :After in CSS

Today we’re going to explore the pseudo-elements :before and :after. You’re probably beginning to see these used all over the web in advanced CSS examples so you might as well jump in and learn to use them yourself.

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YouTube Popup Buttons

There is a certain style of button on the latest YouTube design (most easily found in the footer) where the default state of the button has a very subtle bevel to it, but on :hover and :focus states the button pops up, eager to be clicked.

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40 CSS Reference Websites and Resources

Today we would like to share with you 40 resources that will help you on your CSS journey. We have listed great CSS references and CSS blogs for learning more about the language; not to mention compatibility tables to help you remember how certain browsers handle certain CSS elements.

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Animated Web Banners With CSS3

Today we’re going to take a look at spicing up our web banners, ads or any content for that matter, with CSS3 animations. Firefox and WebKit browsers are currently the only browsers that support CSS animation, but we’ll take a look at how we can easily make these ads also function in other browsers.

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Tabs with Round Out Borders

A good-looking tab control usually has one feature that I've always found impossible to reproduce without images: borders that bend to the outside at the bottom of each tab. In this article I would like to show how you can use the CSS :before and :after pseudo elements to create this effect without using images.

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CSS Buttons with Pseudo-elements

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to create buttons with a twist, using just one anchor tag per button and the great power of CSS. The author experiments with mixing CSS pseudo-elements with buttons and recreates some great effects that were only possible to do with sprites, in the past.

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Six CSS Layout Features To Look Forward To

A few concerns keep bobbing up now and then for Web developers, one of which relates to how to lay out a given design. Developers have made numerous attempts to do so with existing solutions. There are six layout proposals that are relevant to us, all of which I describe in this article.

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