The Top 8 Placeholder Services for Web Designers In the last year, there's been a wave of helpful placeholder services. What's a placeholder? Well, when you're working on a new website, isn't it a waste of time to use stock images, cropped to the right dimensions? In the last week, I've compiled a list - in no particular order - of what I consider to be the most useful and flexible placeholder services on the web. 1 - PlaceKitten A quick and simple service for getting pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code. Usage Follow the placekitten.com url with your desired dimensions. 2 - Placehold.it A quick and simple image placeholder service. Note that, with this service, you set your dimensions more traditionally, rather than separating the widths and heights into segments. Placehold.it is a bit different in that, rather than using photos for placeholders, it instead uses more traditional solid color images, which might be more appealing to some designers. 3 - SheenHolders 4 - FlickHoldr 5 - LoremPixum 6 - PlaceDog
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How to create slick effects with CSS3 box-shadow Drop shadows and inner shadows are some of the effects I learned to apply using Photoshop's Blending options. But now, since CSS3 "hit the charts", you don't need Adobe's design tool to add a drop shadow or an inner shadow to a box. Nowadays, the cool thing is that you create beautiful CSS3 shadows without actually needing Photoshop anymore. View demo box-shadow property Thebox-shadow property allows you to add multiple shadows (outer or inner) on box elements. <shadow> = inset? Rocket science? Not at all, here's an quick example: box-shadow: 3px 3px 10px 5px #000; This CSS declaration will generate the following shadow: A positive value for the horizontal offset draws a shadow that is offset to the right of the box, a negative length to the left.The second length is the vertical offset. The above theory it's just a small amount, if you want to read more, than be my guest and check the W3C specs. Enough theory, let's see some stuff! Add depth to your body Reference URL Drop shadows Quick tips
CSS3 Create - Démos, tutoriels et expériences CSS : menus, galerie photos, interfaces web. Circular Discography Template with jQuery Today we want to share a simple website template with you. The template will show some discography or music albums in a rounded fashion, rotating the albums when clicking on next or previous. When clicking on an album, we will open the album details view which contains a music player (jPlayer) and […] View demoDownload source Today we want to share a simple website template with you. We will be using the following jQuery plugins and scripts that will help us with the effects and the functionality: We’ve added some nice music samples from the following artists: Audiotechnica – Testing by audiotechnica Coffeeeurope -Arena Blanca by Hektor Thillet Ramblinglibrarian – Our Resolve by Ivan Chew Syenta – Emerging Cry by Syenta Thanks to the artists for releasing their music under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) Licence! The initial screen of the template will show some loading element, and we will preload all the images. We hope you like this little template and find it useful!
Responsive Web Design Articles, Tutorials & Guides A couple of weeks back my showcase of responsive website designs proved pretty popular, so let’s revisit the topic and look at some super handy articles, tutorials and guides that will help you get started with @media queries in order to create your own responsive or adaptive web designs. The resources in this collection have been hand picked as the best the web currently has to offer. Creating a website that is responsive essentially means the design of that particular website will ‘respond’ according to the medium that is being used to view it. Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How To Use It This in-depth overview of responsive web design over on Smashing Magazine is probably the best place to go to get the basics on what responsive web design is and how it can be used. View the article Adaptive layouts with media queries View the article The practicalities of CSS Media Queries, lessons learned. View the article A List Apart: Responsive Web Design View the article View the article
CSS 3D Image Flip Gallery With Dynamic Shadows My recent book Pro CSS3 Animation walked the reader through a simple version of a 3D flip image gallery. After publication, I wanted to take it further: thus, this article. The UI challenge addressed here is the same focused on in many of my other CSS 3D works, such as the Origami UI: we live in a world of increasingly diversified screens, with smaller sizes rapidly becoming the norm. That demands a reconsideration of space: rather than placing captions below photographs, we might want to place them behind the image, to be revealed with a mouseover or tap action. Creating The Basic Gallery The markup for the image flip gallery couldn’t be much simpler: <figcaption>Yacht</figcaption> <figcaption>Bee</figcaption> <figcaption>Queens-town</figcaption> Note the outer div for each figure, which will be used to create a 3D context for the gallery content. To gain the 3D effect shown in the example, we need to do three things: The Initial CSS div.flip-3d { perspective: 1200px; width: 30%; float: left;
70 Must-Have CSS3 and HTML5 Tutorials and Resources CSS3 and HTML 5 are capable of revolutionizing the way we design websites. Both include so many new features and functions that it can be hard to wrap your head around them at times. The inclusion of native support for things like rounded corners and multi-column layouts are just the tip of the ice berg. Below are seventy resources, tutorials, and articles to get you started with CSS3 and HTML 5. Many of the techniques discussed are already supported to some extent in some some modern web browsers (Safari and Firefox have the most extensive support), so you can get started right away. CSS3 Tutorials and Resources Get Started with CSS 3 – A basic guide to using CSS3. Cascading Style Sheets Current Work – Details the progress the W3C is making on the CSS3 standard. Border-image: Using Images for Your Border – A guide to the new CSS3 function for adding image borders. Overview of CSS3 Structural Pseudo-Classes – A handy reference chart of structural pseudo-classes in CSS3. HTML 5 Resources
Patternify | CSS Pattern Generator 28 Excellent HTML 5 & CSS3 Tutorials and Techniques | Designs Mag (Designs Magazine) If designers have good command on this programing language, they can learn any designing language easily. But now a days, this is the most powerful and upcoming technology which can make your application beautiful and attractive. HTML 5 have different type of new tags and techniques. Advanced techniques are such as drag and drop and create one page websites and blog designs in few line of codes. This is really helpful for designers and developers. In this post we are going to present you 28 Excellenbt HTML 5 Tutorials and Techniques for web designers . Don’t forget to , and like our for recent updates. {*style:<b> </b>*} Naaz 28 Crushing Resources and Tutorials for JQuery A web designer always needs some inspiration and learning on all aspects of the “web process”. 22 Outstanding CSS3 Buttons Tutorials CSS3 is changing how we build websites. 50 jQuery Image Gallery Tutorials and Plugins jQuery is a free, open-source, lightweight JavaScript library which is designed to simplify the clie...
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