Tutorials Archive

  • Letters, words, logos, and texts. Typography has crept into our lives whether we like it or not. But what exactly is typography? Typography is considered an art form which uses typefaces, point size, leading, line spacing, kerning and tracking. It’s everywhere from books to billboards and everything in between. In a society where language is a cultural identity, texts are extremely important. I don’t see why I would have to...

    The Font Phenomena – A Closer Look at Typography

    Posted on April 13, 2012 | No Comments
    Letters, words, logos, and texts. Typography has crept into our lives whether we like it or not. But what exactly is typography? Typography is considered an art form which uses typefaces, point size, leading, line spacing, kerning and tracking. It’s everywhere from books to billboards and everything in between. In a society where language is a cultural identity, texts are extremely important. I don’t see why I would have to...

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  • For quite some time now, I have had this little idea of a CSS based notification bar floating in my head… and was wondering, would there be a way to create it purely using CSS. Finally I decided to spend some time this weekend, and the time spent on it was well worth it. Yes it’s all driven by the CSS3 magic. Absolutely no javascript or jquery was used in...

    Notify: Pure CSS notification bar using :target pseudo class

    Posted on February 14, 2012 | 16 Comments
    For quite some time now, I have had this little idea of a CSS based notification bar floating in my head… and was wondering, would there be a way to create it purely using CSS. Finally I decided to spend some time this weekend, and the time spent on it was well worth it. Yes it’s all driven by the CSS3 magic. Absolutely no javascript or jquery was used in...

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  • Today, CSS3 has become a buzzword of modern web designers and developers around the globe. With its ground-breaking features, CSS3 has made a profound impact on the web designer community by making the lives of web designers easier and fun filled. Here in this post I am going to explain such a cool CSS3 feature called :target Pseudo Class. By playing around and experimenting with the :target pseudo class, I...

    Pure CSS DropDown Menu using :target pseudo class

    Posted on June 17, 2011 | 33 Comments
    Today, CSS3 has become a buzzword of modern web designers and developers around the globe. With its ground-breaking features, CSS3 has made a profound impact on the web designer community by making the lives of web designers easier and fun filled. Here in this post I am going to explain such a cool CSS3 feature called :target Pseudo Class. By playing around and experimenting with the :target pseudo class, I...

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  • The introduction of CSS3 brings revolutionary changes to the day-to-day life of web designers. There are so many crazy new features that CSS3 has in store for us. Things which were usually done with complex javascript code can now be easily done with CSS3. One such feature is known as Text-Overflow. Sometimes through the web design process we may have to clip some dynamic text before it’s being wrapped to...

    Text-overflow CSS3 property explained – Pure CSS solution to get ellipsis

    Posted on November 27, 2010 | 28 Comments
    The introduction of CSS3 brings revolutionary changes to the day-to-day life of web designers. There are so many crazy new features that CSS3 has in store for us. Things which were usually done with complex javascript code can now be easily done with CSS3. One such feature is known as Text-Overflow. Sometimes through the web design process we may have to clip some dynamic text before it’s being wrapped to...

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  • The DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) is a software development principle, which has been formulated by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas in their book The Pragmatic Programmer. The DRY code philosophy is stated as “Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system.” A system’s knowledge is far broader than just its code. It refers to database schemas, test plans, the build system, even documentation. In...

    The DRY Principle in web design

    Posted on June 17, 2010 | 8 Comments
    The DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) is a software development principle, which has been formulated by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas in their book The Pragmatic Programmer. The DRY code philosophy is stated as “Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system.” A system’s knowledge is far broader than just its code. It refers to database schemas, test plans, the build system, even documentation. In...

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  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of improving a website’s ranking in various search engines by increasing the quality of content. Hence the basic purpose of SEO is to attract more and more targeted visitors to the website by making it search engine friendly. A website with better rankings will naturally obtain good number of genuine hits through the search engines. Search engine optimization is becoming an integral part...

    Quick SEO tips to build search engine friendly websites

    Posted on May 25, 2010 | 17 Comments
    Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of improving a website’s ranking in various search engines by increasing the quality of content. Hence the basic purpose of SEO is to attract more and more targeted visitors to the website by making it search engine friendly. A website with better rankings will naturally obtain good number of genuine hits through the search engines. Search engine optimization is becoming an integral part...

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