33 Must Read CSS3 Tips, Tricks, Tutorial Sites and Articles
Since previous article about CSS text effects got really big attention I decided to research and find more interesting articles and websites just focused on CSS3, teaching you how to use it, showing pros and cons and much more. To be honest it’s hard for me to keep up with technologies myself, but we really cannot not to use those new great selectors to make our designs even more beautiful, user-friendly and lightweighted. However since HTML5 is sort of tied with CSS3, I will soon continue with HTML5 article as well, so don’t miss it and keep coming back! Enjoy!
1. Take Your Design To The Next Level With CSS3
In this article you’ll learn why CSS3 should be used and how web designers use it already in good way. Great article for getting you started with CSS3.
2. Push Your Web Design Into The Future With CSS3
Here are five CSS3 techniques snatched from the future that you can put into practice in your website designs today.
3. Super Awesome Buttons with CSS3 and RGBA
Learn how to create super cool, scalable buttons with CSS3.
4. A Look at Some of the New Selectors Introduced in CSS3
5. CSS 3 Cheat Sheet (PDF)
This is printable CSS 3 Cheat Sheet (PDF), a complete listing of all the properties, selectors types and allowed values in the current CSS 3 specification from the W3C. Each property is provided in a section that attempts to match it with the section (module) that it is most actively associated within the W3C specification.(Download *pdf)
6. CSS3.Info
CSS3 is the new kid in the stylesheet family. It offers exciting new possibilities to create an impact with your designs, allows you to use more diverse style sheets for a variety of occasions and lots more. Also check excellent CSS3 Preview page there, which shows demos of new features.
7. Get Started with CSS 3
Beautiful CSS3 tutorial article explaining several new CSS3 features and giving solutions how to create them actually.
8. Introduction to CSS3 – Part 1: What Is It?
These six part series are providing an introduction to the new CSS3 standard which is set to take over from CSS2 from DesignShack.
9. Accessibility Features of CSS from W3
This document summarizes the features of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), level 2 Recommendation ([CSS2]) known to directly affect the accessibility of Web documents. Some of the accessibility features described in this document were available in CSS1 ([CSS1]) as well. This document has been written so that other documents may refer in a consistent manner to the accessibility features of CSS.
10. Progressive Enhancement with CSS 3: A better experience for modern browsers
In this article you will look at how you can use graceful (or, progressive) enhancement techniques to make use of CSS3 features in browsers that support them, while ensuring that your code will still provide a satisfactory user experience in older browsers that do not yet support those features.
11. Conversation with CSS 3 team
In this article, xhtml.com interviews Bert Bos, chair of the CSS Working Group at W3C, about the next release of the CSS specification and how past design decisions are influencing the future of CSS. This interview offers a rare opportunity to learn more about the inner workings and thought processes of the CSS Working Group at W3C.
12. Six Questions: Eric Meyer on CSS3
Great interview with Eric Meyer about CSS3.
13. The fundamental problems with CSS3
This article brings up several problems and issues with CSS3, interesting reading.
14. CSS3 Exciting Functions and Features: 30+ Useful Tutorials
In this post you will take a look at some interesting properties of CSS3 that you can put into practice in your website designs today.
15. Old School Clock with CSS3 and jQuery
16. The CSS3 border-radius property (Not Valid Anymore)
One of the CSS3 properties designers have been longing the most for is undoubtedly the border-radius property. With CSS3 border-radius property it’s possible to create the so popular rectangles with rounded corners exclusively via CSS – no images needed.

17. Get the best out of CSS3
Craig Grannell turns into a cross between Jeffrey Zeldman and Russell Grant, taking a peek at what the future of CSS has to offer – with a little help from Opera, Safari and Firefox
18. How To Create A Sexy Vertical Sliding Panel Using jQuery And CSS3
19. Rounded Corner Boxes the CSS3 Way
20. #57: Using CSS3 by Chris Coyier
This screencast covers many of CSS3 techniques now possible, focusing on the ones that can be used for progressive visual enhancement. Border radius, @font-face, animations/transitions, text-shadow, box-shadow, multiple backgrounds, RGBa, gradients, border image.
21. HTML 5 and CSS 3: The Techniques You’ll Soon Be Using
In this tutorial, your are going to build a blog page using next-generation techniques from HTML 5 and CSS 3. The tutorial aims to demonstrate how we will be building websites when the specifications are finalized and the browser vendors have implemented them.
22. 11 Classic CSS Techniques Made Simple with CSS3
In this tutorial from Nettuts you will learn eleven different time-consuming effects that can be achieved quite easily with CSS3.
23. CSS 3 selectors explained – Overview of CSS 3 selector syntax
24. 3 Easy and Fast CSS Techniques for Faux Image Cropping
25. CSS3 Borders Preview
CSS3 takes borders to a new level with the ability to use gradients, rounded corners, shadows and border images. Mozila, Firefox and Safari 3 have implemented this function, which allows you to create round corners on box-items.
26. CSS3 property tests
27. CSS3 Background Images (Sizing & Multiple Imgs)
Background images / textures are being used and implemented in many ways, often adding the nicest of finishing touches to a website. It is now proposed that in CSS 3, we can apply background image dimensions as well as use multiple background images. Along with the +/- quick list of compatible browsers, here is how
28. Overview of CSS3 Structural pseudo-classes
29. 5 CSS3 Techniques For Major Browsers using the Power of jQuery
30. jSlickmenu: A jQuery plugin for slick CSS3 menus
31. Multiple Backgrounds (CSS3)
32. CSS: border-radius and -moz-border-radius
33. Modernizr
Modernizr is a small and simple JavaScript library that helps you take advantage of emerging web technologies (CSS3, HTML 5) while still maintaining a fine level of control over older browsers that may not yet support these new technologies.
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Posted 4 days ago 64I have a new css trick to show adsense ads eventhough your site is banned by adsense.
Alex
Posted 12 days ago 63Good article helped me staying motivated to learn web languages & pushing my limits.
wiz
Posted 66 days ago 62that’s really complete explanation,
thanks for sharing, i love it..
Way2Geeks
Posted 70 days ago 61Realy good article…Thanx for sharing..
Samatha
Posted 108 days ago 60Ive write a collection of logo design using only css3, no image, no js check this out : http://www.designerkawch.com/?p=211
Jason Curby
Posted 138 days ago 59That’s a great collection – I’ve already bookmarked some, but will be reading the rest over the coming week. Cheers!
CodeInsects
Posted 139 days ago 58Wonderful A_Z tutorial for css3. If you want to learn css3 you cannot find a wonderful resource than this. I am in your debt. I just started my blog few months back which is Code Insects. I have used few of CSS3 properties in it. Will implement more after learning from this post.
Thanks for sharing. :)
CSS Sites
Posted 140 days ago 57Really good article, I Love CSS3.
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