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Web Design: Understanding Bitmaps and Vector Graphics
All the graphics you encounter on the web are either bitmap or vector graphics. The basic difference between the two is how they’re drawn on your screen. This simple detail affects everything from image [more…]
Explore Design Resources When Building a Website
When you sit down to explore different web-design directions, you’re not on your own when it comes to tracking down the assets and resources you’ll need to complete your designs. A number of online design [more…]
HTML5 Canvas Context Attributes
Each HTML5 Canvas context contains attributes that can be modified by JavaScript code. Note that attributes are assigned to Canvas contexts, not individual Canvas objects. Attributes for a context are [more…]
HTML5 Canvas Drawing Functions
JavaScript functions are used to manipulate pixels on HTML5 Canvas areas based on attribute settings and function parameters. Functions reference a context using dot syntax notation. Here's an example: [more…]
HTML5 Canvas System Interaction: Animation, Audio/Video, and User Events
HTML5 Canvas applications communicate with the host browser for animation callbacks, playing audio/video, and handling user events. This provides a two-way channel between JavaScript code and the browser [more…]
Understanding the HTML5 Canvas Context
An HTML-defined web page can have multiple Canvas areas. Each Canvas has an associated context. The ID defined in the <canvas> tag is used in JavaScript code to identify a Canvas and its associated context [more…]
How to Create an Image Viewer with Lightbox2
Groups of images can be presented on the web in a variety of different ways. There are galleries, sliders, and Lightbox image viewers, all of which can be constructed in an unlimited number of ways. For [more…]
How to Add Multiple Background Images and Rotate Objects with CSS3
With CSS3, you can easily add as many background images to any one element as you please. You can also rotate images. The illustration shows an example of a container with three background images, a pattern [more…]
How to Make Transitions with CSS3
Talk about powerful new features in cascading style sheets (CSS): By pairing the :hover pseudo-class with the CSS3 transition property, you can add slick interactive features to your objects without the [more…]
How to Resize Elements and Create Gradients with CSS3
You can do literally hundreds of tricks on your website with CSS3. Among the key tricks are resizing elements of your webpage and creating gradients for your background. [more…]
How to Style Paragraphs, Headings, and Footers with CSS3
When you are styling paragraphs, headings, and footers, most of the work can be automatically accomplished by creating tag redefine styles for the <p> tag and however many heading tags you intend to use [more…]
How to Style Images and Layers with CSS3
Images need not just sit on your web page exactly where you stick them. Instead, use CSS with your images to position them relative to other content, and add padding and border attributes to one or more [more…]
