How to Create Social Media Buttons Using CSS3
CSS3 is truly amazing. It gives web designers the ability to create flexible and easily reusable design elements, and reduces our reliance on images and graphics editors. This is a guide shows you how to create stylish social media buttons using CSS3, HTML, and some freely available social media icons.
Should You Reset Your CSS?
This article explores the ongoing debate on whether or not web designers and web developers should reset their CSS, sharing the thoughts and opinions of several web professionals.
How to Create CSS3 Christmas Tree Ornaments
In this guide, we will display the power of CSS3 in drawing complex shapes. We will magically create Christmas tree ornaments using only CSS3 and HTML (no images). In particular, we will be drawing baubles, which are the hallmark ornamentation of Christmas trees.
A Comprehensive Guide to CSS Resets
This guide examines the infinite-like variety of CSS resets created by web developers and designers across the world.
While almost all of these CSS resets are generally provided free for public use (many through Creative Commons licensing), it is incumbent upon you to check the terms of use before putting them to use in your projects.
This guide follows Part 1, where the history of CSS resets was discussed; you’re advised to read that before this one to get the most out of this guide.
100 Exceedingly Useful CSS Tips and Tricks
You can never have too much of a good thing–and two good things we rely on in our work are tips and tricks. Nuggets of information, presented clearly and succinctly, help us build solutions and learn best practices. In a previous article, we shared a jam-packed list of 250 quick web design tips. It seems only right to continue the trend by showcasing 100 fresh–and hopefully useful–CSS tips and tricks.
The History of CSS Resets
When artists begin a new painting, they don’t immediately reach for the cadmium red and the phthalo blue. They first prime the canvas. Why? To ensure that the canvas is smooth and has a uniform white hue.
Many web designers prefer to use a CSS "reset" to "prime" the browser canvas and ensure that their design displays as uniformly as possible across the various browsers and systems their site visitors may use.
10 Random CSS Tricks You Might Want to Know About
CSS is the fundamental way of styling our web pages. Its deceptively easy syntax allows us to do many things to affect the visual layer of our work. And especially with CSS3, the language has gotten even more powerful.
There are many useful CSS techniques and tricks out there for you to take advantage of. This is a collection of a few useful CSS snippets that you might want to keep in your toolkit.
