Posts Tagged ‘CSS’

An Elastic Thumbnail Menu November 21st, 2009
by Zeeshan

In an ongoing attempt to offer alternative methods to spruce up menus, I’ve pieced together an elastic thumbnail menu. What does it do exactly? Magnifies menu items when they are hovered over. Menu items expand upwards. View the demo to see it in action.

Using CSS Borders for Emphasis November 20th, 2009
by Zeeshan

Borders have a lot more impact than most people realize. They can make a design look miles better with only minutes of work. The little characteristics like weight, style, and color have big effects on either drawing elements out or making them fit into the background. Making a Box “Pop” Take a look at these [...]

Sliding Boxes and Captions with jQuery August 31st, 2009
by Zeeshan

The Basic Idea All of these sliding box animations work on the same basic idea. There is a div tag (.boxgrid in my css) that essentially acts as a window where two other items of your choosing “peek” through. Confused? Cue the helpful diagram – From this basic idea we can play around with animations [...]

CSS For Bar Graphs April 30th, 2009
by Munazza

Recently we’ve had to tackle some interesting visualizations which we coded in XHTML and CSS. The method we used, while fairly simple, was a big help to the engineer and created a very flexible and inexpensive solution. We thought we would share our solution and code in case anyone else ran against similar situations. Basic [...]