CSS Transitions: A Simple Way To Delight Your Visitors

Transitions are about having changes happen over some duration instead of instantly. In their simplest form they make these changes less jarring and in more complex forms they allow us to create some interesting animations…

Original Hover Effects with CSS3

A nice set of examples using CSS3 to create thumbnail hover effects with CSS3 transitions…

CSS shaders: Cinematic effects for the web

Advances in HTML5 and CSS for example transitions, animations, transforms, text shadows, box-shadows, gradients, SVG have improved the graphical and interactive richness of HTML. SVG filter effects are now moving to Filter Effects 1.0 to become available in CSS and HTML, in addition to SVG, and will bring effects such as grayscale, sepia tone, or […]

CSS3 Memory

A game of memory in which you have to find three matching cards (as a tribute to the CSS level used for the transitions)…

Understanding CSS3 Transitions

We can start to use CSS3 transitions right now as long as we carefully choose the situations in which to use them. They certainly won’t replace existing technologies like Flash, JavaScript, or SVG (especially without broader browser support)—but they can be used to push the experience layer a notch higher. And most importantly, they’re relatively […]

Sexy Interactions with CSS Transitions

While Webkit-based browsers have had CSS Transitions since Safari 3.1.2, other browsers are only just now coming out with nightly builds supporting this exciting new part of the CSS3 specification.With all browsers except for IE being slated to have Transitions support in the coming months, more and more web designers are turning to this powerful […]

CSS3 In Transition

With the addition of the CSS3 transition property comes a lot of uncharted territory. Never before has it been so easy to bring animation into a usable, standards-based browsing environment. Determining how often and to what degree one should use animation on a web build can be tricky. As we evaluate how to implement animations […]

CSS Transitions 101

Despite people’s expectation of change and movement on the screen, CSS and HTML have few controls that allow you to design interactivity, and those that exist are binary. A link is either one color or another. A text field is either one size or another. A photo is either transparent or opaque. No in-betweens from […]

What You Need To Know About Behavioral CSS

CSS 3 properties like border-radius, box-shadow, and text-shadow are starting to gain momentum in WebKit (Safari, Chrome, etc.) and Gecko (Firefox) browsers. They are already creating more lightweight pages and richer experiences for users, not to mention that they degrade pretty gracefully; but they are only the tip of the iceberg of what we can […]