Posts Tagged ‘drop shadows

One of the best things about CSS 3 is that it reduces the need to use images in your designs. That means fewer HTTP requests, few bytes to download and fewer files to keep track of. Need rounded corners? That’s pure CSS now. How about drop shadows? Yes, pure CSS. The infinity symbol? Actually yes, [...]

Sencha Touch Charts are a new offering from mobile app framework and tools provider Sencha. Recently launched into beta, these charts lets mobile developers build HTML5 Web applications for data visualization and exploration. Mobile users can then manipulate the charts using familiar gestures – swipes, pinches, reverse pinches, drag-and-drop, etc. – to really interact with [...]

   Within web design ‘calls to action‘ can be defined as any element of the page that prompt an action of the user. However, clearly some actions are more desirable than others. For example, any site owner would prefer users to click on a ‘buy now’ link than a ‘twitter’ link. For the most important [...]

The CSS 3 box-shadow property allows for drop shadows and other gradient-based effects without the need for images or other hacks. Box shadow works in Firefox 3+, Chrome, Safari, Opera and Internet Explorer 9. Older versions of IE will ignore the rule, but in most cases losing the shadows won’t be catastrophic for your design. [...]

After months of inactivity I have finally returned to the running of the blog; apologies for the lack of posts – I have been busy with other things. However, I am now back with a fresh relaunch of the domain [durdandesign.com], along with a long anticipated redesign. This post is to inform you of said return [...]


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