The Guide To CSS Animation: Principles and Examples

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September 14, 2011 — In this article, we will take our first steps with CSS animation and consider the main guidelines for creating animation with CSS. We’ll be working through an example, building up the animation using ... Read More…

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Louis Lazaris wrote

Learning To Use The :after And :before Pseudo-Elements In CSS

July 13, 2011 — If you’ve been keeping tabs on various Web design blogs, you’ve probably noticed that the :before and :after pseudo-elements have been getting quite a bit of attention in the front-end development scene — and for good reason. In particular, the experiments of one blogger — … Read More…

Andy Croxall wrote

10 Oddities And Secrets About JavaScript

May 30, 2011 — JavaScript. At once bizarre and yet beautiful, it is surely the programming language that Pablo Picasso would have invented. Null is apparently an object, an empty array is apparently equal to false, and functions are bandied around as though they were tennis balls. Read More…

Dave Sparks wrote

Using CSS3: Older Browsers And Common Considerations

May 3, 2011 — With the arrival of IE9, Microsoft has signalled its intent to work more with standards-based technologies. With IE still the single most popular browser and in many ways the browser for the uninitiated, this is hopefully the long awaited start of us Web craftsmen embracing … Read More…

Richard Shepherd wrote

How To Use CSS3 Pseudo-Classes

March 30, 2011 — CSS3 is a wonderful thing, but it’s easy to be bamboozled by the transforms and animations (many of which are vendor-specific) and forget about the nuts-and-bolts selectors that have also been added to the specification. A number of powerful new pseudo-selectors (16 are … Read More…

Dave Donaldson wrote

10 Things Every WordPress Plugin Developer Should Know

March 8, 2011 — Plugins are a major part of why WordPress powers millions of blogs and websites around the world. The ability to extend WordPress to meet just about any need is a powerful motivator for choosing WordPress over other alternatives. Having written several plugins myself, … Read More…

David Bushell wrote

In Search Of The Best CAPTCHA

March 4, 2011 — CAPTCHAs, or Completely Automated Public Turing Tests to Tell Computers and Humans Apart, exist to ensure that user input has not been generated by a computer. These peculiar puzzles are commonly used on the web to protect registration and comment forms from spam. To be … Read More…

Louis Lazaris wrote

!important CSS Declarations: How and When to Use Them

November 2, 2010 — When the CSS1 specification was drafted in the mid to late 90s, it introduced !important declarations that would help developers and users easily override normal specificity when making changes to their stylesheets. For the most part, !important declarations have remained … Read More…

Andy Croxall wrote

Commonly Confused Bits Of jQuery

August 4, 2010 — The explosion of JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as jQuery onto the front-end development scene has opened up the power of JavaScript to a far wider audience than ever before. It was born of the need — expressed by a crescendo of screaming by front-end developers … Read More…

Louis Lazaris wrote

The Principles Of Cross-Browser CSS Coding

June 7, 2010 — It is arguable that there is no goal in web design more satisfying than getting a beautiful and intuitive design to look exactly the same in every currently-used browser. Unfortunately, that goal is generally agreed to be almost impossible to attain. Some have even gone on … Read More…