We all want our designs to be functional and usable. We want visitors to easily complete tasks and find what they want. We’d also like to delight them and make their experience enjoyable and memorable. CSS3 transitions are an easy way to begin creating that delightful experience.
Read MoreUX developer Paul Hayes showcases what you can do with the power of CSS3 3D transforms. He covers everything from 3D image galleries and subtle transitions to experimental 3D environments. Rounded corners, gradients and drop shadows are well known features of CSS3, but beyond these there lie CSS transitions, transforms and animations. In combination they create effects never before achievable.
If you’re developing websites or web apps in any technology-related niche (like web design), then IE6 visitors are probably even lower. For this website, IE6 visitors since January 1, 2011 account for about 0.5% of users, and in the last 30 days, that’s dropped to about 0.3%. You might have similar stats. For this reason, it’s more than likely that the only CSS hacks you’ll need are for IE7 and IE8.
Read MoreIn this guide the author introduces to you the jQuery Mobile platform.
There is a lot of material to cover so we likely won’t hit everything.
But fortunately the team has made development super easy and streamlined
with fantastic documentation.
Navigation is one of the most important aspects of any website. Without good navigation, a site becomes useless to visitors. They can’t find the information they need, and then seek out competing sites instead. It’s vital that your sites be easy to navigate if you want to be a successful designer.
Read MoreFacebook
has become an essential part of promoting a website or service online.
Small blogs, discussion forums and huge commercial companies such as
Coca-Cola and McDonalds are all using Facebook to promote their brand and interact with fans and customers. Have a look at these great examples of Facebook fan pages.
The power of CSS3 is enormous and in this tutorial you will see how to exploit it in a very creative way. We are going to create some thumbnail hover effects with CSS3 transitions. On hover over a thumbnail, we will reveal some description of the thumbnail, using a different style in each example.
Read MoreIn this roundup we have a huge and useful collection of grunge photoshop brushes. If you like these brushes you might also want to check out some more links with Photoshop brushes.
Read MoreThis tutorial is generally targeted towards designers, and approaching programming for the first time as a designer is extremely intimidating. Designers are visual thinkers, we thrive through creation and experimentation using our mind’s eye and an expert knowledge of the tools of our trade. Generally, designers are the kind of people that hated math class and anything else where creativity didn’t seem to have an obvious foothold.
Read MoreYou’ve seen it time and time again on Webdesigntuts+; a CSS3 tutorial which you’re tempted to follow, but lack of support in older browsers stops you from looking any further. There are however, a number of tools to help out in situations like these. Today we’re going to figure out how to conquer CSS3 in older browsers, including Internet Explorer. Let’s take a look at a range of techniques to render the most important CSS3 properties in older browser versions.