Angular Development Tutorials

This website is Brian Treese's Angular Development Blog. The site provides practical, hands-on tutorials and resources for developers who use the Angular framework. The tutorials cover modern Angular techniques including Signals, Components, Forms, Animations, CDK (Component Dev Kit), and Styling. Each tutorial includes code examples, video demonstrations, and step-by-step instructions to help you build Angular applications.

Oh Wow That’s Neat – 09: Conditioner.js

March 05, 2014

Media queries are great and they have become the standard for responsive web design. They provide us the ability take control of our designs and dramatically change the way they look across a wide array of view port dimensions and devices. They are not without issues however. They are are only concerned with the width of the view port and not the width of containing elements.

Pseudo-Classes vs. Pseudo-Elements

March 03, 2014

For the longest time the only pseudo selectors that we could use were :link, :hover, :visited and :active and they could only be applied to a tags. As long as we were intending to support ie6 that was all we could do. As we've adopted philosophies like progressive enhancement, graceful degradation, or dropped support for ie6, 7, and 8 we have seen the landscape of CSS selectors change dramatically.

Oh Wow That's Neat - 07: Gratisography.com Free HQ Images

February 19, 2014

Looking for high quality pictures to use in your personal or commercial projects? Don't want to pay tons of cash for overused stock photos? Well, you're in luck thanks to [Ryan McGuire](http://www.laughandpee.com/) from [Bells Design](http://www.bellsdesign.com/).

Quick Tip - 06: Use the Four-Value Syntax to Properly Position Background Images

February 14, 2014

After writing my post Use CSS Calc to Properly Position Background Images I had some folks point out that you can now use the new Four-Value syntax for the background-position property to achieve the same effect. I was absolutely blown away when I saw that this was finally possible. I'm mean, this just makes sense and it's something that I've wanted for years.

Oh Wow That's Neat - 06: www.fontwalk.de

February 12, 2014

www.fontwalk.de is a site that was created as a marketing tool for www.fontshop.com. I'm not so interested in their fonts, although it looks like they have a nice selection. I am more interested in the great design ideas behind the Font Walk site.

Make it Count with CSS Counters

February 09, 2014

Often I've found myself in a spot where I've needed to style an ordered list in a way that I just couldn't do with CSS. So I either had to live with it as it was or get tricky with JavaScript or something to create a custom list with the necessary markup. Then I stumbled across CSS Counters and that all changed.

Oh Wow That's Neat - 05: Perspective Page View Navigation

February 05, 2014

Navigation can be a hard thing to master. Handling it intuitively and in a usable fashion is even more challenging with the wide variety of devices and screen resolutions available. Most sites tend to just shove all of their menu items under some three bar icon and expand the menu when clicked. Seems to work pretty well, but what If your were to think of navigation in a whole new way?

How and Why to Use the CSS Clip Property

February 02, 2014

The CSS Clip property is an odd one. I've been building websites for a long time and didn't know about it even though it's been around for a while. In this article I am going to explore how and why to use the CSS Clip property.

Oh Wow, That’s Neat – 04: Ink - Responsive Email Templates

January 30, 2014

Anyone who's ever had to create HTML emails knows that it sucks. You have to write old, crappy, code and inline style everything. You have to use tables because more modern float layouts just don't work consistently across the bagillion email clients that are out there. Overall, I would say that they are probably my least favorite part of the Job. But, they don't have to be. Thanks to the great folks at [ZURB](http://zurb.com/) we can hit the ground running when developing HTML emails.

The Difference Between CSS box-shadow and filter: drop-shadow();

January 27, 2014

Normally when I need to add a drop shadow to an element I will use CSS box-shadow. There's another way that I can handle this though. I can use CSS filters. They allow me to do many different things like apply gray-scale, apply sepia, blur, adjust brightness, adjust contrast, adjust hue, invert colors, saturate colors, and alter opacity.

Oh Wow, That's Neat - 03: Myth.io

January 22, 2014

CSS Preprocessors like LESS, SASS, and Stylus are all the rage now-a-days and rightfully so. They all do some great stuff allowing us to write CSS in a more programmatic way where we repeat ourselves less and operate at a higher efficiency level. With all the good that they provide for us they do add a layer of complexity.

Understanding CSS Regions

January 20, 2014

Some of my favorite parts of CSS3 are those concerning layout. So far I've explored Flexbox and Columns, but today I'm going to dig into CSS Regions.