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CSS tips and tricks for styling forms

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Kat

Some simple CSS tips and tricks for styling your forms. The tutorial includes rounded corner fields, styling based on input field types, applying on focus styles and using images as submit buttons.

Web Design Trend: Sticky Navs

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Kat

A web design trend that I have started noticing more frequently are 'sticky menus' where the navigation sticks to part of the page will the content scrolls. This great feature for websites with lots of scrolling...

Cartoon on the current status of browser standards

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Kat

I have recently been posting articles on Squigloo about the some of the great features available with HTML5 and CSS3. However, a continual theme and area of discussion regarding this is lack of users able to view these features due to the range of different browser being used. Here is a simple cartoon which poses the question, how much simple would it be if all browsers were created equal and HTML5/CSS3 ready…

Using CSS3 Special Effects for Menus

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Kat

CSS3 comes with a range of transition, transformation and animation properties that you can use to enhance your website and introduce animation without using Flash or JavaScript. There are also some nice design enhancements like text-shadows and border-radius. In this tutorial I'll demonstrate how to use these techniques to enhance a menu.