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batch process many images: allows you to send a zip file containing your images. It will returns you your images combined into a sprite, and even better, the CSS code that you'll just have to paste in your main css file. The CSS sprite generator takes a number of source images and combines them into a single "sprite" image and supplies CSS to map to each image within the sprite. The technique this tool employs is often used to improve the performance of a web site by reducing the number of HTTP requests that the client's browser needs to make.

I have written previously on the fine art of preloading images without JavaScript using only CSS. These caching techniques have evolved in terms of effectiveness and accuracy, but may be improved further to allow for greater cross-browser functionality. In this post, I share a "CSS-only" preloading method that works better under a broader set of conditions.

A new layout system to replace floats or display:table or html tables. Based on the W3C's proposed 'CSS Template Layout Module' for CSS3; but using jquery to take advantage of this technique today.

In this article, you will find a collection of excellent navigation techniques that use the CSS to provide users with an impressive interface.

CSS Spriting is a technique for speeding up the load times for your website by reducing the number of HTTP requests for images to the server.

The following demo was made using a variety of CSS techniques. Rounded corners, shadows, gradients, rgba, pseudo-elements, and transforms are just some of them. A lot of these were generated by helpful tools, such as westciv's tools and Border Radius. By combining these techniques, you can create rich graphics with just a few lines of code. Here are a few examples. In the contacts icon, I used 5 different shapes for the silhouette icon. The head is a rectangle with rounded corners, followed by another rectangle for the neck and a distorted semi-circle for the body. In order to get the curve of the shoulders to the neck, I placed two circles on top of the shapes. The weather icon has several rays of light shooting from behind the sun. Each one of these rays is actually a long rectangle with a gradient that fades to transparent on either end. I used -webkit-transform:rotate to rotate each rectangle to a different angle. The same effect was used for the iTunes icon. To get the cloud icon on the iDisk icon, I used two circles layered on top of each other, above a rounded rectangle. The larger circle has a gradient that cuts off just before the rectangle.

I n my last post, Pure CSS3 Speech Bubbles Without Images, we saw how the :before and :after pseudo-elements could be used to create different effects. In this post we'll use similar techniques to create a variety of ribbons.

I n my previous posts, we discovered how to create speech bubbles and ribbons without additional HTML elements or images. They were achieved using CSS3 effects applied to the :before and :after pseudo-elements. In this post, we'll use a similar technique to create a paper curl effect.

Particletree is the beginning of something. This place, this collection of knowledge, is a gathering of forces, a sharpening of skills.

With this little CSS technique a user can identify a link by its icon.