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How to avoid common CSS3 mistakes

Help on avoiding common mistakes when using shiny new CSS3 features in your day to day front end coding. Learn to write better CSS3 that works in as many browsers as possible…
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CSS3 properties exposed

A comprehensive central reference site for CSS3. For each CSS3 property you’ll find an easy to understand explanation and browser support info…
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CSS Typography: The Basics

Good typography is not only imperative for aesthetic appeal, but also improves site usability when text legibility and readability concepts are applied. Typography is all about proportions and spacing. There are also font styles to consider. How can we use CSS for great typography in our web designs? This is a question we’ll try to […]
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Nonintrusive CSS Text Gradients

Though not completely cross browser compatible, there are ways to nonintrusively create pure CSS text-gradients with a bit of trickery. The key is to use a mix of attribute selectors, webkit-specific properties, and custom HTML attributes…
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CSS Floats 101

The float property is a valuable and powerful asset to any web designer/developer working with HTML and CSS. Tragically, it can also cause frustration and confusion if you don’t fully understand how it works. Also, in the past, it’s been linked to some pretty nasty browser bugs so it’s normal to get nervous about using […]
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My New Best Friend: CSS Generated Content

I’ve become obsessed with generated content lately. In an effort to use fewer and fewer images, I’ve started to use generated content more since more browsers support it IE8+, FF3+, Safari 4+, Chrome 4+. The following are a couple of examples I have built for a project to streamline my pages…
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An all CSS button

A few years ago I gave a talk about why a button made a great place to bring in type from a branding element such as a logo. My point was that if the type in your logo was an image, and stylish buttons were also often images, then why not align the fonts in […]
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The practicalities of CSS Media Queries, lessons learned

CSS Media Queries are part of CSS3 and in brief: they allow you to tailor your websites appearance for different screen sizes. Most people I speak to know about media queries but have been a little shy in trying them out. You can read about media queries elsewhere – here, I’d like to speak about […]
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Styling Full Width Tabs with CSS3

This article demonstrates how to create full width "browser-like" tabs using pure CSS3 and some HTML5 markup. This article includes whole lot of new CSS properties such as box and text shadows, border radius and CSS gradients…
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Make CSS3 buttons like a boss

High-quality interface elements are a great way to add that extra bit of refinement to a website. I’ve been maintaining a repo of CSS3 buttons for the past few months and I’m starting to see them slowly make their way out into the real world. This tutorial is going to give you a deeper understanding […]
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