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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Click on the image to launch the tutorial.

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Click on the image or the demo, documentation, and instructions.

Aside from using the mousewheel or scrollbar, you can also use the keyboard to navigate the page. The plugin will allow you to control the scrolling speed and also add a fixed element or multiple “steps” element into a panel. It has been tested for compatibility and has been shown to work on the following:

• iOs 5.0.1 (iPhone + iPad) but the curtain effect is disabled
• Safari 5+
• Firefox 9+
• Chrome 17+

You can also visit Victor’s page over at forrst and dribble.

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Web developer James Padolsey shows us a very nice tutorial on how you can create an interface with widgets which mimics the stylish iGoogle interface. You can check the steps by clicking on the image.

Get the DEMO and grab the ZIP FILE here.

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I admit that at first glance I didn’t notice anything special about it because of its simple design, but when I started hovering the mouse cursor over it, that’s how I found the magic behind it.

In the demo page, you can see pretty much all of the various menu effects that you can accomplish. One thing worth noting if you’re planning on using this is that there’s a “hardcoded” limit of items per submenu, so if you’re going to have any more or less than that, then you should remember to edit the Progressive Anim section of the CSS.

As for browser compatibility, it degrades gracefully in IE8, and whilst some of the effects use 3D transform (which only works in Webkit browsers), it’ll still degrade just the same for FireFox and other browsers as well.

If you have any questions about the code or wish to report any bugs, feel free to go to the author’s GitHub page and fork it.

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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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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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One cool plugin to integrate into your website is Ben Nadel’s jQuery sliding image puzzle. It is based on containers with parts of an image and using jQuery as one of its functions,  you can create a cool puzzle for your visitors to enjoy!

Click on the image to get the tutorial, then download the ZIP FILES. I’ve also checked out the DEMO and it totally rocks!

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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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