Rotating with CSS3

CSS3, jquery, tutorial Written by Mike on March 15, 2012

CSS3 allows your to translate, skew, scale, and rotate elements. This puzzle demonstrates the rotate function using CSS3, and a tiny bit of jQuery. To get your elements to rotate, simply add the following CSS to the element:

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Book Review: The Book of CSS3 - A Developer's Guide to the Future of Web Design

Book review, CSS3, HTML Written by Mike on February 10, 2012
The Book of CSS3 - A Developer's Guid to the Future of Web Design

I recently finished reading The Book of CSS3 - A Developer's Guide to the Future of Web Design by Peter Gasston. The Book of CSS3 uses real-world examples to teach developers the fundamentals of the CSS3 specification, highlighting the latest developments and future features, while paying close attention to cur­rent browser implementations. I found this book to be very informative and very useful for creating and styling HTML.  Listed below are some of the key sections it covers which I have found useful in my day-to-day front-end development.

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It's No Longer Hip to be Square

border radius, CSS3 Written by Mike on January 25, 2012
chevrolet sonic

One of the great things about CSS3 is the ability to create rounded edges on borders on anything. Images, navigation items, tabs, you name it. No longer are we stuck with square boxes or complex developing to display rounded edges. Contrary to Huey Lewis and the News, its no longer hip to be square.

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Update Your Email on Outlook 2007

2007, email, microsoft, outlook Written by Mike on January 13, 2012
Phone or email

The only thing constant is change itself.  This applies to server configurations and email settings.  Sometimes things change, are you able to keep up? Updating your email account in Microsoft Office 2007 is not the easiest thing in the world to do, however with these instructions, you should have your mail up and running again in no time. Open Outlook 2007 and go to Tools \ Account Settings...

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Styling Links with CSS3

attribute selector, CSS3, href, icons, links, styles Written by Mike on November 19, 2011
Styling Links with CSS3

One of the great things about CSS3 is the ability to remove more styling from the html and put the stying in the css file which results in cleaner html. CSS3 introduces three new selectors that can match strings against an attribute value at the beginning, the end, or anywhere within the value. This allows us to style different href links with icons relating to the type of link.

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