CSS or Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), is a style sheet language which is used to describe the presentation of semantics (or , the look and formatting) of a document which is written up in a markup language. It is the most common application by which to style web pages that are written in HTMLand XHTML, but the language itself can also be applied to any kind of XML document, including plain XML, SVG and XUL.
CSS3 and HTML5 have a lot of potentials that could be use to create stunnning websites but to actually test them all to see what results you could get might take you a lot of time and, as a web designer, as well as in other professions, time is really important.
In this article we have gathered a few of the best and recently released CSS3 tutorials depicting various methods by which one can substitute Javascript ( which weighs down site load time ) with CSS and achieve the same results without the end user being able to differentiate whether it is Javascript or CSS rendering the same effect.
The potential use of CSS & CSS3 is limitless and only bound to ones imagination, and the tutorials provided below depict just that : The Magic of CSS !
Enjoy .
1. Putting CSS Clip to Work : Expanding Overlay Effect
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2. Flipping Circle Slideshow
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3. Creative CSS Loading Animations
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4. Colorful CSS3 Animated Navigation Menu
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5. Live Album Previews with CSS3 and jQuery
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6. Custom Drop-Down List Styling
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7. Animating the New Parse About Page
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8. Circle Hover Effects with CSS Transitions
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9. Responsive CSS Timeline with 3D Effect
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10. 3D Flipping Circle with CSS3 and jQuery
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11. Triple Panel Image Slider
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12. Vertical Showcase Slider with jQuery and CSS Transitions
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13. 3D Restaurant Menu Concept
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14. 3D Book Showcase
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15. Make An Accordion Style Slider in CSS3
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16. Custom Login Form Styling
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17. A Pure CSS3 Cycling Slideshow
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18. How to Customize Browser Scrollbars Using CSS3
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19. Fullscreen Pageflip Layout
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20. How to Create a Simple Multi-Item Slider
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Intriguing post. Bookmarked! 🙂