Maybe a few of you noticed this on some websites, maybe some of you even use it. Right now this works in Safari, Opera, and Konqueror and Firefox 3.x. (I think it doesn’t work in Firefox 1 or 2, correct me if I’m wrong) What I’m talking about is the text-shadow, wisely applied to your [...]
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Hello fellow developers, I’m sure all of you have heard of the “new” CSS3 stuff, it’s been around for a while now, and it certainly has some very interesting new features. First, I’ll review some of the things that were the hardest to develop, yet they looked so damn well: Rounded corners – We all [...]
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This tutorial is all about creating beautiful backgrounds for website with a modern/stylish look, have you ever wondered how those curved shapes were created? Here is a preview of one I created for this tutorial: The image is only 300x300px, I didn’t want to make anything huge, since it was only a test. The program [...]
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I like to think from time to time of the future of the web. Being a web developer/designer myself, and working on every-day basis many times I just sit back and try to see where all this is going. We can all surely appreciate the evolution of the last years, first with an increase in [...]
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this is quite a neat trick, and it can look really good depending on your design and the image you put as background… To get it to work all you need is to apply a padding and display:block; to the image. So the CSS would be: img{ display:block; padding:10px; background-image:url(image.gif); } Here is [...]
Continue Reading →I am Alex, a software and communications engeneering student. I currently live in the north of Spain.
For the past years I have been working on software and application development, as well as sharing tips and tricks I find useful.