#css3

The vast majority of articles talking about responsive design focus on two main areas: a fluid, flexible grid, and fluid, flexible images. What many of them don't talk about is typography. And yet, for the majority of websites the text, the content, is the most important element. Granted, for sites where images or video are the primary content, responsive type is a bit less important, but it still shouldn't be overlooked. The good news is...

The October edition of what's new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, JavaScript and jQuery tools, productivity tools, UI testing tools, video editing apps, CSS frameworks, app building tools, and some really great new fonts. Many of the resources below are free or very low cost, and are sure to be useful to a lot of designers and developers out there. As always, if we've missed something you think should have been included,...

Modal boxes are a frequently utilized tool in the web developer's arsenal. Used for, amongst many things, login/register forms; advertisements; or just notifications to the user. However despite the fact that modal windows frequently contain mission critical information, they are routinely created with JavaScript, which does not sit well with the best-practices of progressive enhancement or graceful degration. This doesn't need...

The September edition of what's new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, JavaScript and jQuery tools, plugins to make your sites more useful, productivity tools, new takes on content management systems, frameworks, UI kits, and some really great new fonts. Many of the resources below are free or very low cost, and are sure to be useful to a lot of designers and developers out there. As always, if we've missed something you...

The August edition of what's new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, JavaScript and jQuery tools, Mac and Windows apps, productivity tools, tools to make it easier to work with your clients, color resources and tools, business tools, image editors, and some really great new fonts. Many of the resources below are free or very low cost, and are sure to be useful to a lot of designers and developers out there. As always, if we've...

The advent of CSS3 has introduced a world of possibilities for web designers and developers. With animations, shadows, rounded corners and more, elements can be easily styled, and still weigh less than ever before. The navigation of a website is one of the most fundamental aspects to make or break a user's experience. Instead of loading your menu down with individual images or sprites, why not do the entire thing in CSS3? No need for jQuery or...

When designing a website, mobile app, or other user interface, you might have some very set ideas as to what you want before you even get started (or your client might have established some strict guidelines). But maybe you’re not really sure if your ideas are the best possible solution. Or maybe you’re struggling to come up with ideas at all. That’s when you need to turn to some outside inspiration and resources. To do so, you could spend...

Anyone who writes about web design or runs a web design blog (like this one) is bound to get questions from new designers on a pretty regular basis. And most of us try to answer those questions as time allows (which, unfortunately, isn't as often as I'd like). Since time can be an issue, I've pulled together some of the most common questions that get asked over and over again, and tried to answer them. These include things like where to learn to design,...

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week. Note that this is only a very small selection of the links that we tweeted about, so don’t miss out. To keep up to date...

If you're primarily a designer and have recently started learning CSS, you've probably started to incorporate some of the new CSS features that have been added to the language in CSS3. But if you don't have a lot of experience with CSS, then you're probably trying to figure out what is the best way to handle some of the challenges that arise from using multiple vendor prefixes, dealing with older versions of Internet Explorer, and other CSS3-specific...

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week. Note that this is only a very small selection of the links that we tweeted about, so don’t miss out. To keep up to date...

The May edition of what's new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, jQuery plugins, grid tools, CSS tools, WordPress resources, productivity and business tools, responsive design resources, and some really great new fonts. Many of the resources below are free or very low cost, and are sure to be useful to a lot of designers and developers out there. As always, if we've missed something you think should have been included,...

Smashing Magazine has just released their third Smashing Book, Smashing Book #3: Redesign the Web, featuring all-new content for web designers and developers. This book differs from the previous two books in that it has a distinct theme throughout: redesigning websites. It starts out with the business side of redesigns, and then progresses to the technical aspects, including chapters on CSS3, HTML5, and JavaScript, as well as mobile design....

HTML5 and CSS3 are great languages to start off learning with, and I've always thought that one of the best ways to start learning is to just dive in and manipulate the code. As you could probably tell, this is where generators step in. They are a great way to generate some code, play with it, and learn. Not only that, they are incredibly useful because often times as a developer or designer we find we are doing things over and over again. Well, generators...