We're going to look at the basics of creating keyframe based animation using CSS3, including all of the various properties we can use to control the animation's behaviour. And to finish, we'll look at a real life application of CSS animation. Unnecessary Background Reading If you're not a little intrigued as to how Gary Neville has found ...

CSS3 Filters are a pretty exciting prospect for us Web Designers as they make effects that we typically associate with Photoshop, possible to apply in the browser with ease. Assuming across-the-board support eventually arrives, we can wave goodbye to countless annoying sprites for simple hover effects and instead, replace this tedious process with a single ...

A couple of weeks ago, I was watching some Spanish football (the Madrid derby to be precise) - Cristiano Ronaldo banged in yet another hat-trick for his club and soon my train of thought was mulling over the sheer amount of goals that Ronaldo and his Barcelona rival Messi keep on scoring for their respective ...

Let's start off by discussing a rather common mindset when it comes to responsive development - it's the wrong mindset to take on (in my opinion of course) but it seems to be the default thought-process for many. It's understandable, but we'll be explaining why in reality, it's pretty daft. The Wrong Mindset! Okay, so let's ...

We're going to look at using progressive enhancement techniques to improve our user's experience, in this case, with image galleries. These enhancements aren't essential to the functionality of our galleries, but they do show that we care about our users, offering them the best experience we can in their browser of choice. The techniques use only ...

A few weeks ago I was clearing out a load of old stuff and I came across a pretty big folder from my first year of Uni. After having a slightly nostalgic flick through, I deemed it all rather useless. All bar about 6 pages of notes from a couple of my first ever ...

Blocks of copy can often appear intimidating and overwhelming to us humans, being the instinctively lazy species that we are. Subsequently, we’re always striving to make the text on our websites more friendly, more appealing and ultimately to increase its readability. It's a difficult practise, but there are a number of ways we try ...

Earlier on this week I held a training session on CSS3 for my colleagues at Adtrak, focusing on the basics and how we can use it today in our clients' sites - sites that receive the majority of their traffic from IE browsers (which you probably know don't like CSS3 oh so much). I should ...

When asked to hold a training session on CSS3 at my place of work, I thought a great way of demonstrating its capabilities would be to create my actual animated presentation using, wait for it… CSS3! I'd already done a bit of experimenting on how we can trigger CSS3 transitions on click, rather than just ...

When you see blogs like Web Designer Wall and Line25 and you realise the recognition and status they achieve, it's easy to think 'I wouldn't mind a piece of that!' And that's why we now have an extremely dense market in terms of Web Design blogs. Some have made it and have risen to similar levels ...