Sara Vieira

Sara Vieira is a freelance Web Designer and Developer with a passion for HTML5/CSS3 and jQuery. You can follow her on twitter or check out her website.

How to take your WordPress sites to the next level with custom post types

Custom post types are one of the key elements you should grasp if you want to create flexible, professional-grade,…

15 CSS blend modes that will supercharge your images

One of the most invaluable features of Photoshop—arguably, the feature that powered it ahead of its competition—is…

How to create an animated sticky header, with CSS3 and jQuery

Trends come and trends go. The ones that stick around the longest do so because they solve a particular problem. A…

8 simple CSS3 transitions that will wow your users

CSS3 has introduced countless possibilities for UX designers, and the best thing about them is that the coolest parts…

Building 3D in the browser with Three.js

We have capabilities in our browsers that we wouldn’t have dreamt of 5 or 10 years ago. Entire 3D game worlds can run…

How to write simple, elegant CSS with Compass & Sass

A lot of designers use some sort of CSS pre-processor, whether that be Sass, LESS or Stylus. If you've used any of…

How to use HTML5's drag and drop

For a long time JavaScript functions have existed that allow us to create drag and drop interfaces, but none of these…

10 CSS selectors you shouldn't code without

Every time we use CSS, we use selectors. But despite this, CSS selectors are one of the more neglected parts of the…

Get cracking with Backbone

For years developers have been taking advantage of PHP frameworks like CakePHP, CodeIgniter and even Ruby frameworks…

How to create a simple parallax effect

All over the web, sites are springing up, that use what is known as a parallax scroll. In essence, a parallax scroll is…

How to animate media queries

Responsive design is everywhere, and whether you're using a framework or writing media queries yourself, some elements…

Using the Foundation framework

A couple of weeks ago the famous Foundation framework released its fourth version. If you have never heard of…

How to create your own WordPress shortcodes

In version 2.5 WordPress introduced shortcodes, and all of us have probably used them at one time or another. They…

A taste of CoffeeScript (part 2)

In the first part of this article about CoffeeScript, you saw its basic capabilities; but let's be honest, most of the…

Learn to count with CSS

Hidden away in the depths of the CSS specification you'll find CSS counters. As the name suggests they allows you to…

How to use local storage for JavaScript

Creating an to-do app is usually the first application you learn how to build in JavaScript but the problem with all…

How to use the download attribute

HTML5 came with all new APIs, new input types and attributes for forms. As is often the case, those major additions…

How to write markdown

Recently, there's been a lot of talk about markdown as an alternate way to format text. I decided to do a little…
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