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10 CSS tricks that make website looks cool instantly!

There are numerous ways a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) can improves our web design and it’s not difficult to implement a few to make our website looks better and more user-friendly. Listed below are 10 cool CSS tricks that will improve your web designs instantly. The good thing about these tutorials is that they make complicated CSS tricks look easy (and you don’t have extensive coding work to do!). If you are new to web design and development, I suggest you bookmark this article for further reference in future. 1. Image gallery with hover box preview Isn’t it nice to allow your users to preview thumbnail images by just rolling their mouse over? The Hoverbox Tutorial offers free coding sample and detail guides on how to do just that. If you wish to build a fast loading image gallery then this is a must-read. See how hoverbox image gallery can be made. 2. Style A-to-Z index like BBC It’s tedious to deal with index files – especially when you have a lot of ...

7 Essential JavaScript Typography Resources

When you think of web typography, CSS instantly comes to mind. And that’s great, because CSS is the primary option when dealing with the style/visual layer of your website. However, when you hit a roadblock with CSS, take it up a level by using JavaScript (JS). Open source JavaScript libraries can help you craft responsive web designs (a technique that optimizes webpage layouts for mobile devices), implement fun text effects and more. In this post, we will primarily focus on JavaScript libraries that use modern web typography techniques to underscore and promote current web design best practices.