Put me in, coach!

April 24th, 2011 by Red - 6 comments

Currently, I’m just one in a huge crowd, a prospect who has seen so many “dribbbles” and who learned a lot of new techniques.

Today’s post is about… me. With your permission and hoping I’m not too selfish, I’d like to show you some of my latest CSS3 designs.

How to create slick effects with CSS3 box-shadow

April 18th, 2011 by Red - 50 comments

Drop shadows and inner shadows are some of the effects I learned to apply using Photoshop’s Blending options. But now, since CSS3 “hit the charts”, you don’t need Adobe’s design tool to add a drop shadow or an inner shadow to a box.

Nowadays, the cool thing is that you create beautiful CSS3 shadows without actually needing Photoshop anymore.

CSS ribbons

April 7th, 2011 by Red - 33 comments

You may already know what a ribbon is and how it looks. Nowadays, the CSS ribbon effect is a web design trend. It’s cool and it can help you by adding a 3D effect to your design.

So, in this article you’ll learn how to create CSS ribbons, without any images and minimal HTML markup.

CSS3 dropdown menu

March 18th, 2011 by Red - 205 comments

Today you’ll learn how to create your own CSS3 dropdown menu, without any additional Javascript code. There are no images used and, as usual, minimal HTML markup. Let’s see how is made:

Inset box-shadow behavior on Chrome beta

March 1st, 2011 by Red - 2 comments

In my previous article, border, border-radius and box-shadow properties were used to create a slick HTML5 search box. As you may know, when using all these together, a well-known Chrome bug is triggered.

Although this bug was fixed in the latest Chrome beta releases, below you’ll see the strange (may I call it like that?) or should I better say different behavior: