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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!
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.
Here are five CSS3 techniques snatched from the future that you can put into practice in your website designs today.
Learn how to create super cool, scalable buttons with CSS3.
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)
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.
Beautiful CSS3 tutorial article explaining several new CSS3 features and giving solutions how to create them actually.
These six part series are providing an introduction to the new CSS3 standard which is set to take over from CSS2 from DesignShack.
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.
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.
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.
Great interview with Eric Meyer about CSS3.
This article brings up several problems and issues with CSS3, interesting reading.
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.
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.

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
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.
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.
In this tutorial from Nettuts you will learn eleven different time-consuming effects that can be achieved quite easily with CSS3.

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.
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
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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Monday, April 5th, 2010 21:58
Really great tips for the CSS3. Knew a few of them but you made my life a bit easier. Just bookmarked the site to check back for updates and such.
Sunday, February 28th, 2010 11:48
Totally useful collection of articles. No doubt you can some of these links are great way to learn the new features. thanks
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 13:20
Thanks , I just know the CSS3. Previously , I thinks, it has only CSS2.
Monday, February 22nd, 2010 17:25
Nice intro to CSS3. I am a huge fan of progressive enhancement. Everyone should use it.
Friday, January 29th, 2010 12:05
i love this one —>> Old School Clock with CSS3 and jQuery
NICE!!
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 20:37
I really never heard anything about css3. I read it for the first time from this post.
Monday, December 21st, 2009 20:44
Wow! Very extensive list and tutorial on CSS3. I see that IE9 will support css3, but will previous versions of internet explorer support it?
Sunday, December 20th, 2009 19:59
Really useful list, thanks for this wonderful collection… Bookmarked for future reference. Thanks!
-Deepu
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 22:15
A lot of great tricks of the trade on which I am glad to educate myself.
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 07:59
Really helpful and futuristic Information. Thanks for collecting this nice information.
Monday, December 14th, 2009 11:10
Hi
i was looking for this rounded corner with css. Very useful post.
Monday, December 14th, 2009 15:28
I’ve been using some of the more popular CSS3 properties for some time — border-radius, box shadow.
Monday, December 14th, 2009 07:05
Great tips!
Now I’ve modify the CSS of my block-quote to have rounded borders. It looks cool…!!
Thanks for the information guys!
Saturday, December 12th, 2009 22:51
I’ve been using some of the more popular CSS3 properties for some time — border-radius, box shadow. At this point I think the pseudo selectors are going to be huge.
Saturday, December 12th, 2009 15:57
Excellent list, I love this collection because css3 is really unknown for me as I can see. I have to check them all, but I don’t know how much time it’ll take me.
Friday, December 11th, 2009 20:10
thanks for these dainis very usefull i will read some of them soon when i have time
Friday, December 11th, 2009 18:59
Whoah – nice roundup with a great collection of several CSS3 articles. I’m currently writing a new CSS3 article, I hope you’ll like it too.
Thanks for the inclusion!
Friday, December 11th, 2009 22:28
I’ve run across a few of these recently, but this puts many that I’ve seen and a bunch of others all in one place! Thanks for taking the time to put it together.
@marco I checked out your tabbed navigation using CSS3 post yesterday, nice work!
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Luis Lopez
Saturday, December 12th, 2009 15:57
Excellent list, I love this collection because css3 is really unknown for me as I can see. I have to check them all, but I don’t know how much time it’ll take me.
Rajib Roy
Monday, December 14th, 2009 15:12
It is very good articles. Thanks for share.
Chris
Monday, December 14th, 2009 07:05
Great tips!
Now I’ve modify the CSS of my block-quote to have rounded borders. It looks cool…!!
Thanks for the information guys!
Asad
Sunday, December 13th, 2009 08:43
Thanks, really nice and very useful
Josh
Saturday, December 12th, 2009 22:51
I’ve been using some of the more popular CSS3 properties for some time — border-radius, box shadow. At this point I think the pseudo selectors are going to be huge.
CSSim Benim
Sunday, February 14th, 2010 02:57
Really useful, ty
STB
Monday, February 22nd, 2010 17:25
Nice intro to CSS3. I am a huge fan of progressive enhancement. Everyone should use it.
Haurin
Sunday, August 21st, 2011 06:26
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Sunday, July 17th, 2011 13:18
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Edd Turtle
Monday, June 27th, 2011 12:40
A Good Framework for CSS3 Buttons for those of you who are tired of implementing niggily CSS3 solid buttons
Jason Curby
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011 07:28
That’s a great collection – I’ve already bookmarked some, but will be reading the rest over the coming week. Cheers!
Sidharth PK
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 01:25
now i know why all like 1stwebdesigner. great site i ever came across. super job.
Fred
Monday, February 13th, 2012 22:32
Very interesting. i’m newbie in html5 and css3. its awesome
sid
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 13:35
I have a new css trick to show adsense ads eventhough your site is banned by adsense.
Alex
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 00:16
Good article helped me staying motivated to learn web languages & pushing my limits.
Mukund
Sunday, June 19th, 2011 14:48
Well, I would like to see more CSS tricks based on sprites because that saves a lot of time and runs actually the same way on all browsers! Few hacks mentioned above are valid only on few web browsers – not all! Whereas, when you build them with sprites, it will work on all platforms!
Kris
Friday, September 23rd, 2011 11:35
Time to face the music armed with this great inorfmtaion.
anggamovic
Friday, June 10th, 2011 09:28
nice share.. may be i late to learn css3 and html 5, but its ok.. i learn now and i implement to my webpage…
inspirate with mac leopard so i create style use css3 with little html5…..
some tutor i use from this site.. so thanks for sharing…
its useful…
nb: sory for my english…
Miso
Monday, March 29th, 2010 08:53
It’s really useful for me, thank much!!!
Bookmarked.
Omer Greenwald
Sunday, February 28th, 2010 11:48
Totally useful collection of articles. No doubt you can some of these links are great way to learn the new features. thanks
Caricature
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 13:20
Thanks , I just know the CSS3. Previously , I thinks, it has only CSS2.
Bill
Monday, April 5th, 2010 21:58
Really great tips for the CSS3. Knew a few of them but you made my life a bit easier. Just bookmarked the site to check back for updates and such.
Den
Friday, August 13th, 2010 16:59
Wow those are the best css3 resource sites I would ever need
lee
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011 03:42
16. The CSS3 border-radius property the link now goes to an email harvesting spam-like website
1WD Editorial
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011 15:05
Thanks for reporting. Unlinked :).
Janek
Saturday, October 23rd, 2010 21:04
Nice collection. Finally had a chance to use border-radius property on my site.
Chris Gilchrist
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010 13:14
awesome list. thanks for sharing