Jonny Haynes Designer, Blogger, Metalhead

Filed under: CSS, CSS3

I’ve seen this site before: http://forabeautifulweb.com/, but have never noticed the DVDs near the middle of the page. When hovered over, they roll out of there sleeve with pure CSS! Genius!

Then late today this site was being talked about on the web and all over twitter: http://outsideapp.com/, apart from being a great app that I’m going to download, the header is totally done using CSS! Yeah baby … ha ha …

PURE CSS GOODNESS!

The sun rotates, the clouds move … what the fuck! (No apologies for my language!)

I’m going to have to start and up my game!

What do you think? Have you seen any more awesome websites lately.

Filed under: Accessibility, B.R.A.T., CSS

Let me explain, this isn’t something I created, just merely something I came across, that I think is really good and thought everyone should have the opportunity to know about it.

B.R.A.T. is a concept created by Marco Battilana at Accessites.org.

It’s brilliantly simple.

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Filed under: CSS, Graphics, Hosting, SEO, YSlow

CSS sprites group multiple images into one composite image and display them using CSS background positioning. You can save a significant amount of HTTP requests by consolidating your images into one or more composite sprites and using CSS to selectively display parts of the sprite within your web page.

Sprites were originally used during the late 1970s in computer games to speed up load times by only having to access one graphic, rather than multiple ones.

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