Image map with CSS3 & jQuery tooltips

October 17th, 2011 by Red - 40 comments

Tooltips can play a big role in your web designs and that isn’t new anymore. Just use them correctly and they will help you improve user experience.

We have seen before how to create some good looking CSS3 tooltips and today you’ll learn how to create an image map with pins and tooltips.

Cool CSS3 navigation menu

October 10th, 2011 by Red - 21 comments

We all try to be very creative when it comes to designing a website navigation. It’s a sure thing: a good looking navigation menu can really enhance your website.

I wrote before about how to create different menus and today you’ll learn how to create another stylish CSS3 navigation menu.

Practical CSS3 tables with rounded corners

October 4th, 2011 by Red - 21 comments

There has been some discussion in the past about how/when to use tables in web development. Though, the conclusion is the same: when you’re dealing with tabular data, tables are absolutely required.

Designing a table is a challenge – and here I’m not talking only about the way it looks. It’s (mostly) about how easy is your table to read. If your table isn’t easy to scan, usually users get annoyed as they lose focus when trying to find the right column and row.

Having said that, today we’re going to create beautiful and practical tables styled using CSS3. Also, jQuery will be used to create fallbacks for older browsers.

CSS3 tabs with beveled corners

September 26th, 2011 by Red - 18 comments

Organizing content was always an important task for web designers. Just like accordions, using a CSS3 tabbed navigation can help you structuring similar groups of content.

Along with so many rounded corners (which lately became the default), today you’ll learn how to create some good looking CSS3 tabs with beveled corners. We’ll do that using a clever CSS3 gradients technique.

Slick login form with HTML5 & CSS3

September 19th, 2011 by Red - 27 comments

We already know that CSS3 has the ability to create a lot of new possibilities to design and implement better web forms. Also, HTML5 has its important role when it comes about creating more usable forms, without actually needing any Javascript code.

Knowing that, check out the below preview to see the login form we’re going to create in this article: