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Recently I wrote article about post thumbnail and you saw some great examples of image styling. As I wrote there, neat styled images can attract more visitors and you will be more pleasant with them yourself too.
You don’t have to always use Photoshop to style your images. Some cool effects can be achieved trough CSS, jQuery etc too and I strongly suggest you to continue reading to find out how to do it!
Learn to wrap a span tag around the image element to achieve rounded images which will be displayed right in all modern browsers.
Learn how to use CSS 2.1 pseudo-elements to provide up to 3 background canvases, 2 fixed-size presentational images, and multiple complex borders for a single HTML element.
Quick screencast showing you how to achieve multiple borders with simple CSS that way adding more depth to your designs. Much simplier version of previous tutorial.
Third version of Nicolas Gallagher showing you what to do if you don’t the size of element.
Learn how to achieve pressed effect with CSS and some simple border style tricks to get various effects.
Learn how to use some awesome CSS2 and CSS3 to turn an otherwise unassuming list of images into a full-blown set of Polaroid pictures.
Learn how to add background image with CSS that fills entire page with image, no white space, scales image as needed, does not cause scrollbars and much more.
Explore a new way of adding drop shadow effects just by editing a style sheet.
Achieve neat flash-style effect with CSS and jQuery.
In this tutorial you are going to learn how to create simple CSS image rollover effect with basic HTML and CSS styling.
Floatutorial takes you through the basics of floating elements such as images, drop caps, next and back buttons, image galleries, inline lists and multi-column layouts. Check out 4 tutorials dedicated to image floating.
In this tutorial, you will be going over creating flexible advanced hover techniques using CSS2.1 properties.
When using CSS image rollovers, two, three, or more images must be loaded (and often be preloaded for best results). Learn how to put all states into one image makes dynamic changes faster and requires no preload.
Lots of jQuery effects for rounded corners and much more patterns.
See 3 examples of using jQuery rollover preview script. This simple script can be applied for a variety of purposes.
Superzided is a jQuery plugin that resizes images to fill browser while maintaining image dimension ratio and cycles Images/backgrounds via slideshow with transitions and preloading.
Have you ever run into the problem of creating a site with pictures given by the client, only to find later after they update their photography the original look and feel is not retained? This solution involves creating a transparent PNG overlay which can be used as a mask / frame around regular JPEG or GIF. This way, a typical CMS installation can be configured so users can upload photos without having to worry about using any graphics program to apply filters.
BeZoom is a simple and lightweight alternative for JQZoom. It’s lighter and it’s easier to use.
Play with jQuery and change the position of the background image to create the type of effect you’re looking for. There’s a new article answering the “How do I handle active states?” – Handling Active State for jQuery Animated Backgrounds.
Here are a few simple tricks to add some flavor to your typical bland images. Using Photoshop to style each image can be tedious and difficult to maintain in the long run. These following CSS techniques will help you ease that pain.
Learn how to set up resizeable background image with CSS. You have 3 options to choose from.
Letting users know that particular section of our website is meant to be clicked on is best achieved through mouse over effect. Those “clickable” sections certainly include content images. Image Link is a script that enables you to apply additional styling to your image links.
At times, it makes more sense to use background images than to insert them directly into the page. And while each element – like your body tag – can hold only one background image, they can be applied to several elements.
Really easy tutorial showing you how to add solid border to images using CSS.
Learn how to apply hover effect without lot of knowledge about CSS sprites.
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012 10:16
Jquery is the best tool in web history!!! Thank god no more flash animations.
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 18:58
Does anyone know of a good way to use a drop shadow effect with jquery instead of CSS3? Sadly, I have to program for IE (in addition to other browsers). Cheers for the article!
Sunday, December 18th, 2011 07:37
JQuery always fascinating me thanks for great tips. I will try to use this
Friday, August 19th, 2011 13:41
Some nice techniques here. I am always looking for new ways to improve our own company and also customer websites. I prefer to do most things in CSS3 / HTML markup if possible, but have recently started using jQuery, SQL and javascript for calculation modules on our company website (www.ndb-europe.co.uk). Websites like this one really help get the creative juices flowing – keep up the good work.
Saturday, July 23rd, 2011 14:36
Thanks dude nice collection I am going to use one of theme.
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011 16:16
All these are good but iam trying to find a flexible border which will work both horizontally and vertically. border of my images is cluttered. paper like effect. I can either make it flexible horizontally or vertically but not in both directions. is there any solution?
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011 13:19
Thank you for the blog post. Johnson and I are actually saving to buy a new publication on this issue and your writing has made all of us to save all of our money. Your thoughts really solved all our questions. In fact, greater than what we had known prior to when we ran into your wonderful blog. My spouse and i no longer nurture doubts and also a troubled mind because you have attended to our needs here. Thanks
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010 22:27
Excellent, just the list I was looking for. Thanks for posting!
Monday, August 9th, 2010 23:40
Nice, i was looking for something like this nice article thanks Daniels
Thursday, August 5th, 2010 08:23
Awesome collection to share and bookmark.
Thanks for taking time and posting this for us.
Cheers.
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 03:31
Great Collection.. thanks
Now I got to pick one for my project.. ummm.. might do a combination…
certainly inspiring :)
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 17:14
Awesome collection, specially jquery rounded corner. Thanks for such a nice collection
Sunday, August 1st, 2010 11:29
Great article! This is really an eye opener for me. Now I know that I can style Images and Image links too. Thanks for this article.
Saturday, July 31st, 2010 13:40
Thanks for linking to one of my articles.
However, articles 3 and 4 are far more limited versions of one of the techniques I wrote about. Article 3′s implementation doesn’t work for elements that do not have explicitly stated dimensions and makes content links unclickable; Article 4′s implementation also makes content links unclickable and reduces the flexibility of the border’s size and positioning.
I only mention this to avoid people using code that has significant limitations that can have an impact on the flexibility afforded to the developer and the experience conferred to the user.
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Toyin
Sunday, August 1st, 2010 11:29
Great article! This is really an eye opener for me. Now I know that I can style Images and Image links too. Thanks for this article.
Zeeshan Rasool
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 17:14
Awesome collection, specially jquery rounded corner. Thanks for such a nice collection
Nicolas Gallagher
Saturday, July 31st, 2010 13:40
Thanks for linking to one of my articles.
However, articles 3 and 4 are far more limited versions of one of the techniques I wrote about. Article 3′s implementation doesn’t work for elements that do not have explicitly stated dimensions and makes content links unclickable; Article 4′s implementation also makes content links unclickable and reduces the flexibility of the border’s size and positioning.
I only mention this to avoid people using code that has significant limitations that can have an impact on the flexibility afforded to the developer and the experience conferred to the user.
Webster
Monday, August 9th, 2010 23:40
Nice, i was looking for something like this nice article thanks Daniels
Katthren
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011 13:19
Thank you for the blog post. Johnson and I are actually saving to buy a new publication on this issue and your writing has made all of us to save all of our money. Your thoughts really solved all our questions. In fact, greater than what we had known prior to when we ran into your wonderful blog. My spouse and i no longer nurture doubts and also a troubled mind because you have attended to our needs here. Thanks
esranull
Monday, August 2nd, 2010 23:31
very nice list thanks a lot
Alex
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010 22:27
Excellent, just the list I was looking for. Thanks for posting!
Sara
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011 16:16
All these are good but iam trying to find a flexible border which will work both horizontally and vertically. border of my images is cluttered. paper like effect. I can either make it flexible horizontally or vertically but not in both directions. is there any solution?
David
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 18:58
Does anyone know of a good way to use a drop shadow effect with jquery instead of CSS3? Sadly, I have to program for IE (in addition to other browsers). Cheers for the article!
Sam
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012 10:16
Jquery is the best tool in web history!!! Thank god no more flash animations.
Walter
Sunday, December 18th, 2011 07:37
JQuery always fascinating me thanks for great tips. I will try to use this
Matt
Friday, August 19th, 2011 13:41
Some nice techniques here. I am always looking for new ways to improve our own company and also customer websites. I prefer to do most things in CSS3 / HTML markup if possible, but have recently started using jQuery, SQL and javascript for calculation modules on our company website (www.ndb-europe.co.uk). Websites like this one really help get the creative juices flowing – keep up the good work.
Ramesh Vishwakarma
Saturday, July 23rd, 2011 14:36
Thanks dude nice collection I am going to use one of theme.
Suneel
Thursday, August 5th, 2010 08:23
Awesome collection to share and bookmark.
Thanks for taking time and posting this for us.
Cheers.
Hanibaal
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 03:31
Great Collection.. thanks
Now I got to pick one for my project.. ummm.. might do a combination…
certainly inspiring :)