Beginner’s Guide To: Building HTML5/CSS3 Webpages

By Jake Rocheleau | Web Design ::   HTML5 and CSS3 have swept the web by storm in only 2 years. Before them there have been many altered semantics in the way web designers are expected to create web pages, and with their arrival come a slew of awesome supports such as alternative media, XML-style tags, and progressive input attributes for web designers to achieve dreamy features like animation. (Image Source: SARBARTHA DAS, HeskinRadiophonic) Though most developers seem to showcase potential yet complicated demos, HTML5/CSS3 [read more]

 
CSS3 Radial Gradients

July 19, 2011 –   John Allsopp, WebDirections.org Getting your head around CSS3 radial gradients We recently took a detailed look at linear gradients in CSS3. If you’ve not read that, you might like to spend a few minutes doing so, as the concepts are very similar, and I don’t spend quite as much time in this article on the fundamentals of gradients which I’ve already covered there. This time we’ll look in detail at radial gradients. If you’ve got a good sense of how [read more]

 
CSS3 Linear Gradients

July 1, 2011 – John Allsopp, WebDirections.org :: It’s been a while since we posted anything particularly technical to the Web Directions blog, but that’s something we plan on changing. Here’s the first in a series of technical articles on CSS3 features (along with tools to help you lean and use them). We’re starting with linear gradients. We’ll take a look at where they come from, how to use them, and the current level of browser support. Ironically although webkit introduced gradients, until version 5.1, [read more]

 

by Jason Cale :: Young Delta Heart :: Be kind to your friends, hit return. Viva multi-line CSS declarations! For our latest project at Go Free Range we’ve been handed a few dozen stylesheet updates from an external designer, which means we’ve had to merge those updates into the work we have been doing. One interesting thing we encountered through this process with a designer whom has a penchant for single line style declarations, is that it makes hard work of collaborative style management™. Now [read more]