Oh Wow That’s Neat – 20: Dimensions Toolkit

We are all designing and building responsive websites now. For many of us this means both exciting new challenges and significant increases to our workload. Testing at many variable widths is more and more difficult to do and is likely the culprit of much of our increase in development time. We are all designing and

How to Force Hardware Acceleration to Improve CSS Animations

You’ve likely seen CSS animations and transitions in various web applications out there where they just didn’t work well. They are choppy and freeze along with a bunch of other issues. This occurs because they are not taking advantage of the device GPU and hardware acceleration, but are instead using the browsers’ built in rendering

Oh Wow That’s Neat – 19: Responsive Boilerplate

With all of the great frameworks popping up it can be difficult to choose the “right” one. Besides doing some really great things, probably the two most popular frameworks Twitter Bootstrap and Zurb Foundation, can be a little overreaching at times when it comes to theming them. You may find that you have to overwrite

Oh Wow That’s Neat – 18: Morphing Buttons Concept

It used to be that websites and their interactions were much different than those from native software applications. Well this is not so much the case anymore. Mary Lou, a freelance web designer and developer from tympanus.net, wrote an interesting article discussing a few different morphing buttons concepts that showcase some amazing possibilities for web

Oh Wow That’s Neat – 17: Open Source Ampersands

Paul Irish created and maintains a site devoted to Ampersands. The site is a collection of open source web fonts that only contain the ampersand character. He created it based off an article from 2008 regarding the usage of ampersands and the fact that certain variants of the character in some fonts are more interesting

CSS Pseudo Classes for Form Elements

CSS provides us with a handful of pseudo classes that are specific to HTML5 forms. They allow us to create forms that are easier to fill out by highlighting fields that are required, optional, valid, invalid, etc. Pseudo Classes for Forms The following pseudo classes are all related to form elements with examples on how

Using CSS Generated Content

Back in the good ol’ days, CSS was much more limited than it is today. If we needed to style something it had to be in the page which, in turn, led to bloated markup simply for design purposes. Luckily we are no longer in those days. CSS Generated Content is one of many advancements

SVGs are So Fresh to Defs

No, this is not a hip hop song about SVGs, sorry to those of you who were expecting that. This is another post about good ol’ SVG graphics. So most of us know that there is a lot that you can do with SVGs and it can all be done in many different ways. The

Oh Wow That’s Neat – 14: flexboxgrid.com

If you’re ready to build out your next site using flexbox you are probably going to want to use a grid. Well, you’re in luck because Kristofer Joseph has created Flexbox Grid with many of the features that you’re used to with other div based grids and more. Flexbox Grid Features It’s responsive It’s fluid