Monthly Archives: October 2017

CSS3 Object Fit Primer Tutorial

The recent CSS3 Background Size Contain and Cover Primer Tutorial was an epiphany for us regarding two very useful … The contain keyword scales the background image to be as large as possible (but both its width and its height … Continue reading

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CSS3 Transition Game Tutorial

Yesterday’s CSS3 Transition Primer Tutorial started us thinking about CSS3 (Cascading Style Sheet) specification “Transitions”, and there, we intimated that they could be used to serve up to the web application user simple animation functionality. Today, we go a bit … Continue reading

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CSS3 Transition Primer Tutorial

The CSS3 (Cascading Style Sheet) specification introduced “Transitions” to CSS styling of web pages. A CSS3 “transition” … CSS3 transitions allows you to change property values smoothly (from one value to another), over a given duration. Today, we use the … Continue reading

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HTML5 Menuitem Primer Tutorial

The HTML5 specification introduced a new menuitem tag … Defines a command/menu item that the user can invoke from a popup menu … but the trouble being it is not a widely working concept, as of writing, only working on … Continue reading

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HTML5 Picture Tag Primer Tutorial

You may have heard of the term “responsive design” with regard to web design, especially in this mobile device world of so many and varied device dimensions. Wikipedia describes “responsive web design” in this way … Responsive web design (RWD) … Continue reading

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CSS3 Background Size Contain and Cover Primer Tutorial

We’ve got a fairly simple but fairly useful lesson today with respect to a CSS styling improvement introduced with CSS3, the Background Size property that allows you to specify the size of background images. How often have you mismatched (the … Continue reading

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WordPress Blog Administration Cut to the Chase Tutorial

The recent WordPress Blog Cut to the Chase Integration Tutorial had us allowing the users of the blog the chance to dive into the “essence” of a blog posting via a “complex emoji button”. Blogs and CMS have two sides … Continue reading

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CSS3 Animations Below the Fold Asynchronous Tutorial

Yesterday’s CSS3 Animations Below the Fold Tutorial got us talking about “below the fold” and that concept’s natural “partner”, to our mind, is talk of “asynchronous” processing. These two ideas are very powerful. If you can be arranging your webpages … Continue reading

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