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Reveal Content When Needed With an Expanding Footer

Tutorial • Beginner

During this tutorial we're going to build an expanding footer; a user interface pattern which allows the user to click on expandable footer regions if they...

Norris • 22 Apr 2013
CSS

The Best Way to Learn CSS

Tutorial • Beginner

CSS works hand in hand with HTML; HTML sorts out the page structure, CSS makes it look pretty and adds subtle levels of interaction. As a web designer you...

Ian Yates • 18 Apr 2013
UX/UI

Your Logo, as a Web Font Ligature

Tutorial • Beginner

Let's look at an alternative approach for displaying logos on a web page. Normally, you'll approach the challenge by using an <img> tag. Perhaps you'll...

Ian Yates • 25 Mar 2013
CSS

Stir up Your Own Delicious Sass Mixins

Tutorial • Intermediate

Sass is designed to help write CSS faster; mixins are of the features that make it possible. Several heavyweight libraries exist with complex formulas for...

Trevor Pierce • 7 Feb 2013
CSS

Quick Tip: Make the Most of CSS Attribute Selectors

Tutorial • Beginner

If you've never used attribute selectors in your CSS before, you're missing out on a great way to manipulate your styles. Let's take a look at how you can...

Adi Purdila • 28 Jan 2013
Web Typography

Working With WebINK: Pro-Quality Fonts for the Web

Tutorial • Beginner

WebINK by Extensis is a web font service which gives you access to over a thousand font families, produced by the best foundries in the industry. As a...

Ian Yates • 25 Jan 2013
CSS

The Role of Table Layouts in Responsive Web Design

Tutorial • Intermediate

Fluid layouts are the perfect way to house our content at any viewport size. Text can flow as containers grow and shrink, images and even video and iframes...

Ian Yates • 23 Jan 2013
CSS

Source Maps 101

Tutorial • Intermediate

In today's modern workflow, the code that we author in our development environments is considerably different from the production code, after running it...

Sayanee Basu • 16 Jan 2013
HTML

Build a Twitter Clone From Scratch: The Design

Tutorial • Beginner

This article represents the first in a new group effort by the Nettuts+ staff, which covers the process of designing and building a web app from scratch - in...

Maciej Sopyło • 27 Dec 2012
CSS

Create a Flexible Folded Paper Effect With CSS3

Tutorial • Beginner

In this tutorial we'll learn to create a flexible (responsive) folded paper effect using CSS3 features like background gradients and box-shadows, which can...

Harry Atkins • 12 Dec 2012
CSS

Everything You Need to Know About the CSS Cursor Rule

Tutorial • Beginner

While the world's going bonkers for touch-controlled interfaces, this article will focus on the more traditional input method of the mouse. I'll suggest an...

Jim Nielsen • 15 Nov 2012
HTML

Quick Tip: Styling Scrollbars to Match Your UI Design

Tutorial • Beginner

This tip will guide you in improving the look and feel of scrollbars to match your UI design. We'll take a look at what WebKit browsers offer us in terms of...

Muhammad Ahmad Zafar • 14 Nov 2012