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Tips n Tutorials

CSS Standards & Best Practices

CSS is used to define the User Interface of a Website & to separate content from presentation.

CSS is something that is extensively used on almost every site. Lets take some time to ensure that our stylesheets are built with some good standards. The below tips will really help CSS beginners a lot in development.

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Index

This definition helps you & others understand more about the Site as well as the CSS file rather than the content in the CSS. The Index is just a formatted paragraph of text as a CSS comment.

More with Shadows in Photoshop

Here is another short video tutorial for Photoshop newbies. By playing with simple shadows you will see how to get the feel of a third dimension to any object.

Simple Dither Effect using CSS

While working on the upcoming theme for Dezinerfolio, we were working on a section that displays a short description that dithers towards the end. We worked out a very simple but effective solution using simple CSS attributes and images.

The Need:

Fade Text

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The Solution:

Fade RAW

All we are doing is adding an extra DIV after the end of the Paragraph and applying a transparent background image with a negative position.