Css Blogs

17
Apr

Road Testing Responsive Web Design CSS Frameworks

by Alex

When Blueprint and Zen were released about 5 - 6 years ago, they aimed to kickstart web development by providing CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and HTML elements that packaged a number of ready made options for web design and layout. Building on these past successes, the key to successful contemporary web design is now “responsiveness” i.e creation of a fully responsive and scaled design that displays across to a range of resolutions and devices to provide a consistent end-user experience no matter what.

28
Jul

RGBa is not supported by the W3C's CSS validator

by jonathan

We've been checking some of our sites before submitting them to the 2011 Australian Web Awards and here's a little gotcha that had us pulling our hair out for a few hours.

The problem

The W3C's CSS validator does not support RGBa (at least on borders)!

Examples:
border: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.5);

Symptoms

You get one or many of the errors when trying to validate your CSS on lines where you use RGBa():

16
Feb

CSS3 Animated Volumetric Clouds

by Alex

For years the geeks who essentially control how your web experience works (otherwise known as the W3C) have been promising us powerful new features, a revolution in UI design. Now we're on the brink of this so-called revolution, just what can be done with it? This demo shows my attempt to push the limits of the new CSS3 web standards, with some interesting results.