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Coding for the mobile web by Chris Mills
CSS Dev - 34 Comments
March 5th, 2008
Introduction
Good evening — in this article I will aim to demystify the world of mobile web development, or in other words, developing web sites so that they will provide an acceptable user experience on mobile devices. I’ll run through how “the mobile web” differs from the normal web, the basics of techniques you can employ […]
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How to recreate Silverback’s parallax effect by Paul Annett
Design CSS - 150 Comments
February 27th, 2008
When I was a lad, I remember being wowed by an effect in Sonic the Hedgehog known as parallax scrolling. Moving my little spiky friend to the right caused the foreground to move past the camera to the left faster than the background, creating a faux-3D view of Green Hill Zone.
We can create a similar […]
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Streamline your forms with widgets by Jason Long
CSS JavaScript - 45 Comments
February 12th, 2008
“Advanced forms” are rarely that. A more fitting name would be “Overwhelming and confusing forms”. But with Jason Long’s clever approach to streamlining a screen full of checkboxes, you might just be able to once again look fondly on your forms.
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Stay on :target by Brian Suda
CSS Dev - 33 Comments
January 31st, 2008
In this article, I want to introduce you to a really powerful CSS3 pseudo selector called :target. Much like :hover, :target is invoked during certain interactions with the website. Specifically, when applied to a fragment identifier. On a page such as http://example.com/index.html#hello-world, the id=”hello-world” element is the target and any matching :target styles would be […]
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Creating Sexy Stylesheets by Jina Bolton
Design CSS - 239 Comments
December 6th, 2007
Lately, I have taken interest in discussing methods of creating sexy stylesheets. While CSS can be used to create sexy websites, writing CSS can actually be an artform by itself. The way in which CSS is created, structured, and maintained can be a thing of beauty.
So how does one create sexy stylesheets? What characteristics would […]
