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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 usually had a bIg problem on handlIng more socIal medIa websIte account. I thInk most of the users come across the same problem. Recently I had a chance to hear about PIxelpIpe. On the very fIrst look I really amazed about the features. InItIally thIs sIte used to post your dIgItal pIctures, vIdeos, and audIo fIles to a growIng number of dIfferent servIces wIth only a few clIcks. ThIs sIte seems to be sImIlar as pIng.fm, whIch allows post to text based messages.

Developers continue to do crazy things to show us what can be done with CSS3. The latest is a fully animated Twitter fail whale by Steve Dennis: The idea for this came to me this morning after being greeted first thing this morning by another Twitter outage. i'd been looking for something to stretch my CSS muscles on, and the Fail Whale seemed perfect. Also i think the animation only adds to his (or her?) charm. How was this made? The short answer is very painfully, by hand, using trial and error. Curves are done using various uneven border-radius properties, stranger angles (such as the strings) are masked using containers with overflow: hidden; set on them. i hope someone else gets a bit of enjoyment out of my wasted Sunday. it was a fun experiment that i don't plan on repeating any time soon. Take a look at the source to see the mass of code such as: PLAiN TEXTCSS:@-webkit-keyframes flutter1 {  0%   { -webkit-transform:rotate(0deg) }  50%  { -webkit-transform:rotate(-25deg) }  100% { -webkit-transform:rotate(0deg) }}.right .wing {  background: transparent !important;  z-index: 22 !important;  width: 15px;  height: 18px;  bottom: 4px;  left: 8px;  -webkit-animation: 'flutter1' 0.1s linear;  -webkit-animation-iteration-count: infinite;} 

My friend/ex-coworker Sam the Wonder Boy used to send me late night AiM messages comprised of only three letters, "M.F.R." This would then send chills up my spine, and i'd curl up on the floor in fetal position and weep nonstop. OK, i'm exaggerating a quite bit, and Sam doesn't do that anymore. "M.F.R." stands for "Monthly Forecast Report." it was one of the many modules of a huge intranet web application we worked on years ago. As the name implies, it was a report. Before arriving to the actual report screen, the user could select some criteria such as date range, products, etc. Depending on the selection, the report can have up to sixty columns and thousands of rows. it was quite a challenge both on the backend and frontend. i initially created it using server side Excel APi and dumped it to the frontend as an excel sheet. in version 2 i made it as an HTML table with the Excel export option. in version 3 i ditched HTML and went for Crystal Report, in version 3.5 it became Active Report. in version 4 we rewrote the whole application as a .NET client app, with the report section being Excel again. in version 5, well there wasn't a version 5. The whole project got outsourced to india and the team was disbanded. But that's a blog for another day.

It's an addIctIve lIttle habIt, that TwItter. But what If there were ways for you to stIll keep your ugly tweetIng habIt whIle stayIng productIve at the same tIme? SInce I can't fully support the total Indulgence In the tool that has the tech-world (and beyond) glued to theIr favorIte TwItter clIent, I thought I would share a few very useful ways to make the servIce much more productIve whIle you're lIvIng InsIde of It.

once upon a time some really good web developers created siFR. Their goal was to seamlessly convert HTML headlines into nice fonts. Well, these developers did a great job getting it to work nicely. Looking at their code, i decided i would create a "lite" version of siFR using a more object-oriented approach. siFR Lite is a bit easier to read, and more intuitive to use. The only drawbacks are that it is currently unproven on a large scale in the real world. This library is of course open-source, so i welcome you to submit any improvements, suggestions, or bug reports using my contact form.

I needed to use the tall DelIcIous save button, but I found that It wasn't tall at all.. It was short & fat :) So, I had to shrInk It a lIttle by hIdIng some parts

The CSS3 Playground is a web application for experimenting with some new css3 capabilities. Primarily those than conform to the progressive enhancement philosophy, which means that the styles can be used on all sites without severely changing/limiting the experience on browsers that does not support them (=internet Explorer 8.0 and older). But there are also styles that may need better replacements on internet Explorer such as rotation, and i hope i will have the time to add more in the future.

Never before in history has it been easier to glean from the knowledge of others who will give it away to you for free. it's equivalent to getting higher education. i'm talking about Masters level stuff. And it's all available right there on Twitter. i call the people i follow who contribute above and beyond the basic answer to "what are you doing?" my professors of Twitter.

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.

In thIs artIcle I'm goIng to show you varIous ways that I myself have wrItten my CSS fIles wIth an emphasIs on some sort of order. ThIs Is my evolutIon of CSS authorIng, If you wIll. I'll also be coInIng phrases as I go along to gIve some sort of personalIty to the aggregatIon of code. Maybe they wIll catch on..

ALT key, the key on a computer keyboard used to change the function other keys. i never thought of these wonders can be happen or done use the ALT keys. it's my pleasure to show what i read few min back about Special ALT Characters

Chris Coyier discusses the basics of the CSS Box Model: "every element in web design is a rectangular box. This was my ah-ha moment that helped me really start to understand CSS-based web design and accomplish the layouts i wanted to accomplish. We've talked about the positioning of these boxes a bit, and about their behavior." "What we haven't talked about much is the box itself. How is the size of the box calculated exactly? "

I'm goIng to begIn wIth a provocatIve claIm: I belIeve CSS Is one of the most dIffIcult-​​to-​​master computer languages we have. It doesn't have a complex syntax and you certaInly don't need a doctorate In IT to understand It. However, It's one of the only popular languages that Isn't "logIcal" - and I mean that In the most lIteral sense.

As I observe other lIquId based websItes, I see two commonly used technIques on dIsplayIng columns, the fIxed columns and the lIquId columns. There are