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Since tables were co-opted for layout purposes, columns have become key to many Web design layouts, and this thinking continued when CSS took over from tables (at least in the minds of savvy designers) for Web-page presentation. However, other fields of layout design don't think in arbitrary columns, they work with grids, and these form the basis for the structure of page designs. This article will provide the lowdown on grid design for Web pages. Thinking modular Grids are a template, a framework within which creativity can flourish. Too many designers spend time looking at a blank canvas, trying to figure out where elements should be positioned, but, if you have a flexible underlying grid, many such problems are already solved for you. It becomes obvious where and how elements should and can be positioned, thereby leaving you, the designer, with more time to work on graphic design and other page components.

download and/or convert fonts Upload a font and this will spit out everything you need to embed it into a website including HTML, CSS and multiple font file formats. You'll definitely want to bookmark this one! Each @font-face font kit come with: Original TrueType or OpenType Fonts for Firefox 3.5+ , Opera 10+, Safari 3.1+, Chrome 4.0.249.4+EOT fonts for Internet Explorer 4+Demo.html and stylesheet.css so you can get going fastNOTE: All fonts are subset to the Mac Roman char set.

This is a demo site for CSS3. For most stuff you need Safari 4+, Chrome, Firefox 4 beta or Opera 10.5x to make these demos work. For 3D stuff, you need Safari 5 or the WebKit Nightly build.

ABOUT THIS PAGE: This is a little experiment to try some new stuff with the new browsers and the @font-face rules. You'll need the latest versions of Safari, Firefox or Opera to view it. We didn't design it to degrade gracefully.

I have created a monkey patch for jQuery (tested through 1.4.3) which enables you to independently set and/or animate both the scale and rotation of any HTML content with jQuery. This code uses the scale() and rotate() CSS transformations that are only supported by Webkit, Safari, Chrome, Firefox 3.5+, IE9 (Platform Preview 7+), and some versions of Opera at this time.

"background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, rgba(97,103,150,0.35) 0%, rgba(125,185,232,0) 100%); /* FF3.6+ */ background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,rgba(97,103,150,0.35)), color-stop(100%,rgba(125,185,232,0))); /* Chrome,Safari4+ */ background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, rgba(97,103,150,0.35) 0%,rgba(125,185,232,0) 100%); /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */ background: -o-linear-gradient(top, rgba(97,103,150,0.35) 0%,rgba(125,185,232,0) 100%); /* Opera11.10+ */ background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, rgba(97,103,150,0.35) 0%,rgba(125,185,232,0) 100%); /* IE10+ */ filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#59616796', endColorstr='#007db9e8',GradientType=0 ); /* IE6-9 */ background: linear-gradient(top, rgba(97,103,150,0.35) 0%,rgba(125,185,232,0) 100%); /* W3C */"

This is now the 3rd part of my current adventures in looking into CSS performance and how it performs in various states across various browsers.

Here is a LIVE demo showing how input buttons are rendered in your browser. The 'Standard' column will look different depending on your operating system. The '+ Border' column shows the same buttons with a red border added. (This removes the default button style as seen in the first column.)