Web developer Mary Lou shows a great tutorial on how you can create animated buttons with CSS3. The idea here is to have different styles with hover effects and active states. You can check out her tutorial with live demo and downloadable source by clicking the image.

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Created by a web developer in the Philippines, here’s a great navigation menu tutorial that uses only CSS. View the DEMO, then click on the image to see how it is done.

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In creating animated transitions, Javascript has always been implemented but German web designer Heiko Stiegert has made it using only CSS.  You can do this by using CSS3 pseudo-class :target and negation pseudo-class :not () properties together with CSS3 Transition Module. Get the DEMO here.

Check out his tutorial on building an accordion image gallery without Javascript by clicking on the image.

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The animation is activated by simply hovering your mouse cursor over a letter. By doing so, a number of pixel elements come in and gather on a specific area of the page and into their respective positions to form the particular letter. Since some pixel elements have a common position for two or more letters, the use of extra elements gets minimized.

Click on the image to try the demo.

Cool, ain’t it?

You can download the source code over at Peter’s GitHub page. Enjoy!

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You can find the CODE and TUTORIAL on how to achieve the effect  is written in French but don’t fret! With a little help from Google Translate you can now read it in English here.

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Click on the image check out the demo showcasing three different transition effects. You can download the source files here.

In the tutorial, the HTML page will basically consist of four sections aside from the header; Home, Portfolio, About, and Contact. Each will have its own DIV ID, and CLASS. As shown in a simplified version of the HTML markup below:

<!-- Home -->

<div id="home">

<h2>Home</h2>

<p>Some   content</p>

<!-- ... -->

</div>

<!-- Portfolio -->

<div id="portfolio">

<div  >

<h2>Portfolio</h2>

<p>Some   content</p>

<!-- ... -->

</div>

</div>

<!-- About -->

<div id="about">

<div  >

<h2>About</h2>

<p>Some   content</p>

<!-- ... -->

</div>

</div>

<!-- Contact -->

<div id="contact">

<div  >

<h2>Contact</h2>

<p>Some   content</p>

<!-- ... -->

</div>

</div>

<!-- Header with Navigation -->

<div id="header">

<h1>Page Transitions   with CSS3</h1>

<ul   id="navigation">

<li><a   id="link-home" href="#home">Home</a></li>

<li><a   id="link-portfolio"   href="#portfolio">Portfolio</a></li>

<li><a   id="link-about" href="#about">About   Me</a></li>

<li><a   id="link-contact"   href="#contact">Contact</a></li>

</ul>

</div>

Also, the header is located at the bottom and not at the top. Sergio explains that the reason for this is so “that we make the navigation “reachable” using the general sibling selector (~), so that we can color the respective items differently.”

In the CSS side of things, as far as the header and the navigation are concerned, you’ll still style and the position them as you normally would even though everything else will be moving because of the transitioning effect. Since the Home section has its own class apart from the other sections, you’ll be assigning it with a different CSS attribute:

.panel{

min-width: 100%;

height: 98%;

overflow-y: auto;

overflow-x: hidden;

margin-top: -150%;

position: absolute;

background: #000;

box-shadow: 0px 4px 7px   rgba(0,0,0,0.6);

z-index: 2;

-webkit-transition: all .8s   ease-in-out;

-moz-transition: all .8s   ease-in-out;

-o-transition: all .8s   ease-in-out;

transition: all .8s   ease-in-out;

}

.panel:target{

margin-top: 0%;

background-color: #ffcb00;

}

Below will be the style of the content class for the rest of the sections:

.content{

right: 40px;

left: 280px;

top: 0px;

position: absolute;

padding-bottom: 30px;

}

.content h2{

font-size: 110px;

padding: 10px 0px 20px 0px;

margin-top: 52px;

color: #fff;

color:   rgba(255,255,255,0.9);

text-shadow: 0px 1px 1px   rgba(0,0,0,0.3);

}

.content p{

font-size: 18px;

padding: 10px;

line-height: 24px;

color: #fff;

display: inline-block;

background: black;

padding: 10px;

margin: 3px 0px;

}

Lastly, if you want to change the color of the current item in the navigation, just use the :target pseudo-class with the general sibling selector (~) to “get to” the respective navigation item:

#home:target ~ #header #navigation #link-home,

#portfolio:target ~ #header #navigation #link-portfolio,

#about:target ~ #header #navigation #link-about,

#contact:target ~ #header #navigation #link-contact{

background: #000;

color: #fff;

}

As always, feel free to tinker with the code and experiment with different effects. Again, credits and thanks go to Sergio. Cheers, everyone!

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Here’s a great plugin that will boost your site’s appearance. The jQuery Transit is created by Rico Sta. Cruz which boasts of super-smooth CSS3 transitions. Check out this tutorial by clicking on the image.

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Basic HTML5 mark up:

<section>

<article  >

<span>01</span>

<h1>HTC Design   Chief Talks About Its First Tablet, the Flyer</h1>

</article>

<article  >

<span>02</span>

<h1>Irrational   Design, a San Francisco Start-Up, Tries to Fly Solo</h1>

</article>

<article  >

<span>03</span>

<h1>Staying in   Touch With Home, for Better or Worse</h1>

</article>

<article  >

<span>04</span>

<h1>Google   Announces Payment System for Digital Content</h1>

</article>

</section>

And here’s the CSS:

article{

background:rgba(242,194,0,1);

width:225px;

height:225px;

position:absolute;

-moz-border-radius:12px;

border-radius:12px;

-webkit-transition:   all 400ms ease;

-moz-transition:   all 400ms ease;

transition: all   400ms ease;

}

article.blur{

-webkit-box-shadow:

0   0 10px rgba(242,194,0,1),

0   0 8px rgba(242,194,0,1),

0   0 6px rgba(242,194,0,1),

0   0 4px rgba(242,194,0,1),

0   0 2px rgba(242,194,0,1);

-moz-box-shadow:

0   0 10px rgba(242,194,0,1),

0   0 8px rgba(242,194,0,1),

0   0 6px rgba(242,194,0,1),

0   0 4px rgba(242,194,0,1),

0   0 2px rgba(242,194,0,1);

box-shadow:

0   0 10px rgba(242,194,0,1),

0   0 8px rgba(242,194,0,1),

0   0 6px rgba(242,194,0,1),

0   0 4px rgba(242,194,0,1),

0   0 2px rgba(242,194,0,1);

-webkit-transform:scale(0.85);

-moz-transform:scale(0.85);

transform:scale(0.85);

opacity:0.8;

}

article:hover{

cursor:pointer;

z-index:10;

-webkit-transform:scale(1.15);

-moz-transform:scale(1.15);

transform:scale(1.15);

-webkit-box-shadow:   0 15px 10px -10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5), 0 1px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3), 0 0 40px   rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) inset;

-moz-box-shadow:   0 15px 10px -10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5), 0 1px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3), 0 0 40px   rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) inset;

box-shadow:   0 15px 10px -10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5), 0 1px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3), 0 0 40px   rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) inset;

}

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Looking for a design for your online store website? Here’s a very nice layout that’s well-suited for product online selling websites, called the ‘E-Store’.

This is a single-page layout designed by a web designer at Script-Tutorials in which HTML5 and CSS3 features are used so it is easier for all website owners to modify. The template is clean and sleek with gray color styling. You can check out the full demo then grab the zip file.

For the complete details of the E-Store tutorial, CLICK HERE.

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Check out the DEMO and DOWNLOAD the file, then click on the image below to launch the tutorial.

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