Radial Gradients, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love Webkit

CSS3 introduces new ways to utilize current-day desktop graphics power, and one of these is the ability to render radial-style gradients (as well as other gradients, too). Of course, as with any new web technology, it’s not always intuitive or easy to pick up right off the bat. There are many different effects that can… Continue reading Radial Gradients, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love Webkit

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Five (Plus One) Unique Dummy Text Generators To Flavor Your Mockups

Bacon Ipsum – http://www.baconipsum.com/ Pork! It’s the meat of kings. Add a little protein to your body copy with Bacon Ipsum – a crispy, succulent Lorem Ipsum alternative. Just set the number of paragraphs you’d like, the content type (“All Meat” keeps it piggish, whereas “Meat and Filler” give you an extra hint of Ipsum),… Continue reading Five (Plus One) Unique Dummy Text Generators To Flavor Your Mockups

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Elastic vs. Static Widths

With web apps becoming more prevalent, it makes me wonder where the PC market is really headed. It’s not the apps that concern me, but more the way the apps are designed. Web dev teams have been opting to build in favor of touchpad terminals (think Twitter for iPad), and the standard rules for web… Continue reading Elastic vs. Static Widths

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Laying Out A Webpage: Screen Width

A div, or division is a very useful element for css-based web design. If you consider it to be a box, then you’re on the right track. Before we start, I’d like to discuss some standard layout methods. Take a look at this image: