Tutorials Archive

  • To be able to effectively handle the alpha transparency or opacity of a particular element purely using CSS/HTML was the dream of any web designer. Because, with alpha transparency or opacity they can make visually more beautiful and easily maintainable websites with less effort. Now with CSS3 we can achieve these using properties such as RGBa and Opacity. What is RGBa? In addition to RGB (Red Blue Green) CSS3 has...

    RGBa vs Opacity: The Difference Explained

    Posted on March 29, 2010 | 43 Comments
    To be able to effectively handle the alpha transparency or opacity of a particular element purely using CSS/HTML was the dream of any web designer. Because, with alpha transparency or opacity they can make visually more beautiful and easily maintainable websites with less effort. Now with CSS3 we can achieve these using properties such as RGBa and Opacity. What is RGBa? In addition to RGB (Red Blue Green) CSS3 has...

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  • Personally, I have never celebrated valentine’s day in my life, in-fact I am completely against the idea of reserving days for our dear ones. Be it valentine’s day, Mother’s day or Friendship day, I just can’t understand the logic of waiting for a particular day to celebrate love or express gratitude for my loved ones. My affection will always be there and my dear ones will know it all the...

    CSS Heart – A web designer way of wishing Valentine’s Day…

    Posted on February 13, 2010 | 13 Comments
    Personally, I have never celebrated valentine’s day in my life, in-fact I am completely against the idea of reserving days for our dear ones. Be it valentine’s day, Mother’s day or Friendship day, I just can’t understand the logic of waiting for a particular day to celebrate love or express gratitude for my loved ones. My affection will always be there and my dear ones will know it all the...

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  • It is said that 70 to 80 percentage of the end-user response time is spent on the front-end. A major portion of this time is exhausted on downloading all the external components in a web page including, stylesheet, images, scripts, flash etc. An extra HTTP request adds 200+ milliseconds to a page (worldwide average). Since most of today’s browsers limit about 3 or 4 parallel requests at a time, a...

    Cool Sprites – Free overlapped CSS menu using CSS Sprites

    Posted on January 18, 2010 | 89 Comments
    It is said that 70 to 80 percentage of the end-user response time is spent on the front-end. A major portion of this time is exhausted on downloading all the external components in a web page including, stylesheet, images, scripts, flash etc. An extra HTTP request adds 200+ milliseconds to a page (worldwide average). Since most of today’s browsers limit about 3 or 4 parallel requests at a time, a...

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  • Have you ever felt the need for holding an embedded image inside an HTML file, without referring to an external image file? Personally I felt like so many occasions, where the need for a completely self contained HTML page, with all its supporting images embedded within that page itself. This may seem pointless in normal situations, but it can prove very useful when we want to make a standalone page,...

    What is Data URI scheme?

    Posted on December 20, 2009 | 14 Comments
    Have you ever felt the need for holding an embedded image inside an HTML file, without referring to an external image file? Personally I felt like so many occasions, where the need for a completely self contained HTML page, with all its supporting images embedded within that page itself. This may seem pointless in normal situations, but it can prove very useful when we want to make a standalone page,...

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