How To Create A Custom Border Using CSS3 border-image
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to use the CSS3 border-image property to create a custom border. This new element allows you to use an image for your border. In my example, I’ll show you how to create a 5px wide gradient border around an image.
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Creating Slick Buttons With CSS3 Multiple Backgrounds
In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to make a slick button using CSS3 multiple backgrounds. The background property works the same as CSS2, with the exception of allowing you to add additional background images. If you’d like to code along, the source files.
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Using The CSS3 box-shadow Property
I recently published a post on the text-shadow property. The box-shadow property is quite similar, and easy to build into your layout. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to add a shadow to a box only using a little CSS3.
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Adding text-shadow To Your Type Using CSS3
Adding a shadow to your text with CSS3 is actually quite easy. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use the text-shadow property to do just that.
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Coding Transparent Backgrounds and Images With CSS3
Transparency has always been a stumbling block for web designers. However, thanks to CSS3, that is quickly changing. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use CSS3 to easily add transparency to backgrounds and images.
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How To Create Circles With CSS3 and No Images
Thanks to CSS3 it’s now possible to create circles with only code. Look ma, no images! In the following post, I’ll show you how to create full, half and quarter circles using only CSS. Unfortunately, the half and quarter circles only work in Firefox at this time. The trick to creating the circles, is the use of the border-radius selector.
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CSS3 rounded corners using the border-radius property
Round corners, without the need of images, is one of the most exciting new features of CSS3. In the past, a web designer would have to use images and tons of code to use rounded corners in their designs. Thanks to the new border-radius property, designers can easily add rounded corners to their layouts.
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New Fonts Available When Using CSS 3
Did you know that CSS 3 provides you with more web design font options? With the use of the new @font-face property in CSS 3, you can import additional fonts, outside of the regular system ones, for use in web design.
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Taking Advantage of CSS 3
has published an excellent article outlining some new CSS 3 features for use in web design. Not every browser supports CSS 3 yet. However, now is a great time to start getting familiar with the new features. By the time all the browsers have caught up, you will be an expert and won’t have to worry about learning a bunch of new code. The techniques covered in the article are:
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